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Finance Senior Manager (Transport)

Lloyds Banking Group

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End Date

Wednesday 02 October 2024

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The role will have responsibility for Performance Management Reporting and Financial MI development within the Transport Business with the unique opportunity of supporting the Business Partner Team and the Business directly on new product and service initiatives which has recently included the acquisition and onboarding of Tusker.

Job Description

JOB TITLE: Finance Senior Manager (Transport)

SALARY RANGE: £80,206-£94,360

LOCATIONS: Bristol, Cardiff or Stockport

HOURS: Full-time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites

About this opportunity

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced, highly motivated individual to lead a team of 9 colleagues within the Transport Reporting and Development team in Retail Finance.

The role will have responsibility for Performance Management Reporting and Financial MI development within the Transport Business with the unique opportunity of supporting the Business Partner Team and the Business directly on new product and service initiatives which has recently included the acquisition and onboarding of Tusker.

The Transport Business principally covers 2 key businesses - Black Horse (primarily consumer financing) and Lex Autolease (commercial and personal leasing). There is a huge amount of change in the Motor Industry with changing customer behaviours influencing how customers gain access to finance vehicles and how they use vehicles, which has been particularly impacted by Covid and potential longer lasting changes from that. And of course the green agenda to switch to electric vehicles which Transport has a big role to play in supporting the Group's sustainability strategy.

This is a great opportunity to work with the Transport Business and our strategic partners, including Jaguar Land Rover, Tesla and Tusker to navigate our way through these changes and influence the shape of the Transport Business going forward.

This Senior Manager role sits within the Retail Planning and Reporting Team which you will be welcomed into and supports financial performance reporting for the full range of products within the Retail Bank providing exposure to increase your breadth of knowledge across these products.

Reporting into the Finance Director Retail Planning and Reporting, the role will manage 9 colleagues, leading and co-ordinating delivery of accurate data and information to Finance and the Transport Business ensuring financial control is at the heart of everything we do.

Customer needs are one of the team's top priorities. The team's key customers are: Retail Finance Director Consumer Lending Planning and Reporting Transport Business Partners Product Analytics Team

Responsibilities:

  • Leading, developing, and championing your team to deliver a high-performance mentality and encouraging them to embrace stretching development objectives.

  • Supporting your team in providing insightful, high quality management accounting reports, executing control, and operating as a management accounting specialist support across the Transport Finance Business.

  • Build a wide network of contacts across Finance, with collaboration between teams being the key to your success in the role.

  • Respond to individual and team objectives and invest in improving personal performance by growing own skills and capabilities and coaching others.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

Like the modern Britain we serve, we're evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We're growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too

What you'll need:

  • Be curious - do not accept the status quo. Challenge the way we currently do things and look for ways we can improve them.

  • Be able to work collaboratively and enjoy collaborating with stakeholders from different areas.

  • Ideally, you will be a qualified/nearly qualified accountant (ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)

  • Ensure that great financial control is at the heart of everything we do.

  • Be onsite with the team at least two days a week

And any experience of these would be really useful:

  • Product Knowledge (HP, Leasing)

  • Financial Services experience

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it's why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We're disability confident. So if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

• An annual performance-related bonus

• Share schemes including free shares

• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping

• 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

If you're excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We'd love to hear from you.

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.

We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we're building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.

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