JOB DESCRIPTION

JOB TITLE: Finance Manager

ABOUT THIS OPPORTUNITY

We have an exciting opportunity for a Finance Manager to join our team in Edinburgh. You’ll join us in Group Finance Support (GFS), a key function within the Finance community of Lloyds Banking Group. We’re a team of c.300 colleagues, with responsibilities including financial reporting and control, people and culture initiatives and strategy implementation.
This role sits within the Transaction Support team in Group Finance Support (Reports into the Head of Finance) who are responsible for the implementation of significant and complex transactions.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and hardworking candidate to lead a small team looking after a portfolio of entities within the LBG investments division.

Day to day you’ll:

• Build out and implementation of a model to govern and control transactions across GFS for retail, commercial, Insurance & CGT transactions.
• Managing stakeholder relationships across a wide range of finance, operations and business partnering teams.
• Reviewing complex accounting opinions and performing impact assessments for the Impairments, Regulatory Reporting and Group Finance Support teams.
• Managing the GMS9 preparation and sign off for significant and complex transactions.
• Taking ownership of the control environment for the end-to-end transaction including documentation of the risks and controls.
• Developing personal capabilities using existing formal and informal training opportunities, while also coaching others as the need arises.
• Proactively identifying improvements to existing processes, systems and procedures, including the running of post implementation review meetings and driving continuous improvement initiatives.
• Leading and coaching colleagues.

AND ANY EXPERIENCE OF THESE WOULD BE REALLY USEFUL

• Experience of regulatory reporting or impairments would be advantageous.
• Experience of capital optimisation transactions such as synthetic risk transfers, asset backed securitisations and capital issuances would be advantageous.