• Job Description

  Req#: 116107

  End Date

  Friday 26 July 2024

  Salary Range

  £111,469 - £131,140

  We support flexible working – click here for more information on flexible working options

  Flexible Working Options

  Job Share

  Job Description Summary

  Group Finance is central to Lloyds Banking Group and Data is a key enabler in satisfying the needs of our internal and external customers. The Finance Analytics & Data Office purpose is to Empower through Trusted Data. We're evolving our data & analytics offering, our ethos, and our capability to craft a truly data-led organisation that is at the heart of the Finance Strategy.
  
  Passionate about the power to be sparked when combining data and analytics, with evolving technology? Want to join a team that role models diversity, collaboration, a curious approach, and will be bold as we transform data across Finance? If the answer to these questions is yes, then read on.

  Job Description

  JOB TITLE: Head of Data Enablement

  LOCATION: Bristol.

  HOURS: Full-Time.

  WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, and the role will require the successful candidate to be spending at least two days per week, or a minimum of 40% of their time in the Bristol hub.

  We’re the UK’s biggest digital bank, with over 18 million online customers. But there’s still so much more we want to achieve. Data represents a critical part of our business and our vision for the future. We’re investing more than £3bn into our people, technology and data to ensure we can make a real, positive impact to millions of customers, businesses and communities, today and tomorrow.

  Group Finance is central to Lloyds Banking Group and data is a key enabler in satisfying the needs of our internal and external customers. The Finance Data & Analytics Office (FDAO) is a Centre of Excellence of Data encompassing activities across Data Engineering, Data Management & Culture, Data Science and Reporting with a purpose to Empower through Trusted Data. We're evolving our data & analytics offering, our ethos, and our capability to craft a truly data-led organisation which is at the heart of the Finance Strategy.

  Passionate about the power to be sparked when combining data and analytics, with evolving technology? Want to join a team that role models diversity, collaboration, a curious approach, and will be bold as we transform data across Finance? If the answer to these questions is yes, then read on.

  The role/team

  This role leads the transformation of how Data is used across Finance from definition to delivery of the operating model structure, scope and ways of working. You'll lead the partnering activity within the Finance Business Unit working hand in hand with the Finance Platform and across into Chief Data & Analytics Office as the key connector to enable the functional redesign and controlled delivery of Finance wide interactive MI & Data proposition. This role will also deputise for the Finance Data Director and lead team wide initiatives.

  You’ll coach your team; supporting their personal growth, building their skills for the future, and nurturing a strong team. And you’ll help make FDAO a fantastic place to work;

  supporting our agenda on inclusion, growth and having fun. There’ll be lots of opportunities for you to get involved, be seen and to make a real difference. And through all of this, the underpinning thread is your role in Helping Britain Prosper.

  A typical day in this role would include…

  • Define and develop the strategy / target operating model to service both Finance Business unit & Finance Platform and lead the transition to this operating model ensuring reporting service commitments are maintained throughout.

  • Shape the change agenda to optimise efficiency and improvement across all areas of data including the execution of strategic and tactical initiatives as required on behalf of FDAO director and the Finance Platform.

  • Partner with Finance Platform to build the future operating model as we move towards a future of “self serve analytics”.

  • Build positive relationships with key partners across Finance to understand the Data that is key to Business needs and partner with other teams in LBG with focus on CDOA and Risk.

  • Portfolio accountability for the inbound work into FDAO providing a single point of contact on backlog prioritisation and subsequent delivery of each initiative in alignment with Finance Platform.

  • Stand up the Data Science and AI capabilities across the Finance business unit working to develop how new technologies will improve Finance Processes.

  • Lead the sustainability agenda for our core reporting footprint across Finance with the ambition to remove paper packs from meetings.

  • Lead the data literacy uplift across the Finance business unit working with Finance Community and Chief Data & Analytics Office team to include education and talent pipeline.

  • Build and maintain an impactful team, effectively leading and developing colleagues to deliver on objectives through stretching performance objectives, feedback & coaching.

  About you

  • As an experienced Data professional you will have a proven ability to translate the technical Data management concepts into consumable stories to engage a diverse range of colleagues.

  • You'll be a dynamic and adaptable leader who will identify the business needs, shaping initiatives, and delivering ground-breaking solutions.

  • You'll possess an intellectual curiosity in your outlook; seek to innovate and learn quickly from failures.

  • You should be someone who can communicate and influence at Executive and Board level yet be able to tell the story to whole teams.

  • You'll need to have influence outside of the immediate team and Finance function, with frequent interactions with Data colleagues, Risk and Customer teams, including our regulators and external partners.

  • You can deliver through others, enjoy working in a matrix structure and use your networks to enable phenomenal outcomes and will b alance assertiveness with co-operation to enable truly collaborative working partnerships to achieve shared outcomes.

  • You'll have a passion to develop diversity through your team where inclusivity and team or individual learning is at the heart of your operations.

  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. As a function we're committed to the principles of Flexible Working and want to find the right person for the job. We'll welcome applications from candidates interested in working the role as a job share or applying for the role on reduced hours. 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.

  Our continued commitment to helping Britain prosper means that as a colleague you will be empowered to make a difference to customers, businesses and communities. Together we have a key role to play in shaping the bank of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you will continue to have opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

  We are focused on creating a values-led culture and our approach to inclusion and diversity means that we all can make a real difference, together.

  
  

  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.

• About the company

  For over 250 years we’ve been making a difference to the lives of customers, businesses and communities. Today, we're still driven by our purpose of helping Britain prosper. We're part of an ever-changing industry and are currently on a journey to shape the financial services of the future, whilst supporting our customers’ changing needs. The scale and reach of our Group means we can offer a broad range of opportunities to learn, grow and develop. Our values-led culture and approach to inclusion and diversity means we can all make a real difference together.

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