• Job Description

  Req#: 115209

  End Date

  Tuesday 16 July 2024

  Salary Range

  £80,206 - £94,360

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

  Flexible Working Options

  Hybrid Working, Job Share

  Job Description Summary

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  Job Description

  JOB TITLE: Senior Manager – Finance Business Partner

  Salary: £80,206 - £94,360

  LOCATION(S): Bristol or London

  HOURS: Full time

  WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an one of the above offices
  

  About this opportunity

  We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Finance Business Partner to join us in. In this role you’ll support of the Modern Workplace areas, where you'll provide commercial and strategic partnering on Investment & BAU cost base and the resulting benefits & Savings.
  

  Day to day you’ll be;

  • Helping the Platforms to forecast successfully and contributing to the setting of strategic direction and goals.
  • Working closely with the Planning & Analysis teams to influence monthly results and support landing key messages.
  • Taking the monthly insights papers and adding additional insightful and strategic commentary with clearly articulated future impacts.
  • Supporting and challenging the business, crafting well-understood forecasts along with a summary of financial risks and opportunities.
  • Providing commercial and decision support on key projects and contractual commitments, acting as a trusted advisor.
  • Playing an active role in engaging with the Centres of Excellence, improving the flow of communication and the standards of inputs/outputs.
  • Embedding the Group’s culture and vision through visible leadership, being a role model for the Group’s leadership behaviours.
  • Supporting the Head of Finance in building and maintaining a hard-working team, ensuring colleagues are developed effectively, utilising the groups Your Best principles.
  • Participating and making an impactful contribution to the development and objectives of the wider platform business partnering team.

  About us

  We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you.
  

  What you’ll need

  • Fully Qualified Accountant
  • Prior experience of Finance Business Partnering, influencing and driving improvement in Business results.
  • Ability to interact withcolleagues at all levels across Finance and Business teams.
  • Listening, joining the dots and summarising the story (across Investment costs and the resulting financial benefits).
  • Challenging constructively to support better quality outputs and outcomes (e.g. through finding better ways to communicate financial information).
  • Experience of supporting Change / Transformation including the impact of different technologies on financial statements would be valuable.
    

  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.

  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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