Assistant Finance Manager – Financial Control (12 Month FTC)

What you'll be doing

• Deliver accurate and timely month-end financial control, reporting and consolidation activities.
• Produce management, statutory, regulatory and governance reporting for the IMS portfolio.
• Prepare, review and substantiate balance sheet reconciliations, investigating and resolving financial control issues.
• Maintain a strong financial control framework through effective controls, risk management and audit support.
• Build trusted relationships with Finance, Risk and business stakeholders to ensure reporting integrity and resolve issues.
• Coordinate regulatory reporting and governance requirements, ensuring robust review and sign-off.
• Drive automation, process improvement and Finance Transformation initiatives to enhance efficiency, control and data quality.
• Utilise digital tools such as Power Query, Power Automate and reporting solutions to streamline processes and reduce operational risk.
• Support knowledge sharing, continuous improvement and team-wide collaboration.

About us

Join us and, as well as making a difference to customers, you’ll enjoy a fulfilling career where you’re free to be yourself. Great colleagues, transforming workspaces, hybrid working and a wide variety of career opportunities – you’ll find them all here.

What you'll need

• Accountancy qualification – ICAS (or equivalent), ACCA or CIMA;
• Passion for Financial control and a curious mindset;
• Good analytical skills;
• Good stakeholder management skills
• Confidence to challenge;
• Desire to embrace and emulate LBG’s Grow With Purpose ethos

And any experience of these would be really useful:

• Financial services experience
• Strong risk awareness

About working for us

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities, and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

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.

We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.

We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.

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
• 28 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Like what you hear? Join us!

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.