Assistant Manager Transport Controls and Reporting

End date

Wednesday 08 May 2024

Salary range

£42,120 - £46,800

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JOB TITLE: Assistant Manager Transport Controls and Reporting

LOCATION: Bristol

HOURS: Full time

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days a week) in our Bristol office.

About this 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 (GFS), a team of c600 colleagues within the Finance Division, providing centralised support and expertise to the rest of Finance and the Business.

This role sits within the Retail Financial Control & Reporting team in GFS, who are responsible for the financial control and reporting of subsidiary legal entities within Lloyds Banking Group.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and hardworking candidate to support financial control and reporting activities for a number of entities within the Lloyds Banking Group Transport portfolio.

What you'll be doing:

• Providing support to team managers, specifically when organising and planning month end deliverables;
• Completion of month end activities and also review of month end activity carried out by other colleagues within the team;
• Taking ownership of control issues or balance sheet breaks, ensuring that these are owned and remediation action plans are in place;
• Collaborating closely with a large number of internal teams including stakeholders within other GFS and Retail Finance teams. In addition there will be extensive liaison with Divisional Business and Operations teams, Finance Platform colleagues and external auditors;
• Taking the responsibility for the running of debrief meetings, driving continuous improvement initiatives which will create efficiencies within the team.
• Working with wider Finance teams and Change teams to ensure that Financial Control matters are considered in Transformation, including managing the ongoing change impact on source system reconciliations;
• Developing personal capabilities using existing formal and informal training opportunities;

About us:

If you think all banks are the same, you'd be wrong. We're an innovative, fast-changing business that's shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that's empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose.

What you'll need:

• Accountancy qualification/part qualified accountant or qualified by experience
• Strong excel skills and a curious mindset that will drive process improvements;
• Passion for Financial control;
• LBG Systems knowledge;
• Strong stakeholder management;
• Team player

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
• 28 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.