Senior Finance Manager Divisional & External Reporting

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JOB TITLE: Senior Finance Manager Divisional & External Reporting

LOCATION(S): Leeds, Bristol, Cardiff or London

HOURS: Full time

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an office site

About this Opportunity

The key responsibilities of the role are to deliver a high-quality full P&L and Balance Sheet Executive Reporting suite for the Retail Divisional Finance Director as well as a highly accurate and thorough External Reporting output. This role reports to the Head of Divisional Finance and External Reporting and is responsible for a small team of Finance Managers.

Day to day you will:

• Lead, develop and champion your team to deliver a high-performance mentality and encourage them to embrace stretching development objectives

• Support your team in providing insightful, high quality Executive Reporting, through advanced storytelling capability and ensuring accuracy and completeness

• Take responsibility for leading the regular monthly and quarterly reporting processes, bringing together numerous teams and stakeholders to provide insight on financial and commercial performance

• Oversee the Retail Valuation in Resolution process and associated reporting

• Develop strong relationships with stakeholders external to the team to ensure alignment in narrative across all areas

What you'll need:

• Curiosity and drive to think differently and bring new insights, challenge the way we currently do things and look for ways we can improve them

• Ability to take ownership and work collaboratively

• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to make the complex simple

• Strong analytical and interpretative skills including good judgement

• Proactive development mentality: 'develop ourselves to deliver better'

And any experience of these would be really useful:

• Ideally you will be a qualified accountant (ACCA, CIMA, ACA)

• Stakeholder management - capability to build and maintain strong working relationships internally across the Retail Bank, Retail and Group Finance and other key partners

• Able to deliver at pace, accurately, collaboratively, and with an appreciation of wider factors

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

Want to do amazing work, that's interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.

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.