Senior Finance Manager - Accounting Operations (9-12 month FTC)

End date

Thursday 09 May 2024

Salary range

£80,206 - £94,360

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Job description

TITLE: Senior Finance Manager - Accounting Operations

LOCATION: Bristol

HOURS: Full time

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

About the opportunity:

At Lloyds Banking Group, we have a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper and to become the best Financial Services provider for our customers. Through our brands, our Group has a relationship with just about every household and community in the UK. We underpin the lives of millions of individuals and businesses and play a key role in helping to build a growing UK economy.

You'll join us in Group Finance Support and Finance Data & Analytics Office (GFS & FDAO), a team of c600 colleagues within the Finance Division, providing centralised support and expertise to the rest of Finance and the Business. The Accounting Operations team within GFS has responsibility for performing operational reconciliations and finance transactions to achieve a complete month end ledger position.​ You will also be expected to play an active role within the Extended Leadership team within GFS.

What you'll be doing:

You'll lead and develop a team (approx. 30 colleagues) and as a Senior Manager, you'll role model strong financial control behaviours; you'll be leading a team through coaching, feedback and mentoring. Influence key senior stakeholders and contribute to broader strategic direction and business decision making by providing insight, control and thought leadership.

Accountabilities will include:

• Leading the operations of the team including managing capacity, ensuring daily/monthly/quarterly deadlines are met
• Ensuring that a large number daily and monthly manual interface and ledger adjustments underpinning the balance sheet accounts are performed in a timely, complete and accurate manner
• Managing delegated authority and ensuring payment activity is performed correctly within deadlines
• Detailed understanding of operational risk and oversight activities to ensuring risks are understood and that controls are effective
• Interpreting and implementing financial accounting matters and Banking transaction impacts
• Providing SME knowledge and collaborating with the Value Streams/Platforms to support requirements & delivery of change programmes
• Establishing effective relationships with stakeholders including presenting at senior level meetings
• Leading on issue management, communicating and facilitating resolution
• Leading a development focused team and demonstrating continuous learning and self-development.

What you can bring to the role:

• A qualified accountant (ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) or have alternatively gained a similar level of expertise acquired through substantial experience in a finance function
• Passion for Financial control and reporting and questioning mindset;
• Experience of leading a team
• Strong background of delivery and driving continuous improvement against a constantly evolving landscape
• Bring a problem-solving approach with the ability to challenge and constructively debate key issues
• Works collaboratively with a diverse group of stakeholders, utilising well-developed relationship skills
• Ability to assess the impact of change on products, systems, processes and people.

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 bonus award, subject to Group performance
• 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.