Lloyds Banking Group
Assistant Finance Manager - Legal Entity & Securitisation
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End Date
Thursday 17 September 2026
Salary Range
£44,901 - £49,890
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Job Description
JOB TITLE: Assistant Finance Manager - Legal Entity & Securitisation
SALARY: £44,901 - £54,879
HOURS: Full time
LOCATION: Edinburgh & Newport
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites
About this opportunity
Central Finance is hiring forward-thinking people that want to maximise their impact in the leading financial services group in the UK, influencing positive change. We’re looking for those that proactively drive their development, have the ambition to succeed and wish to invest in their career.
The Legal Entity, Securitisation, Control & Reporting team are a trusted, value adding partner to the business, supporting with month end financial control, balance sheet substantiation and statutory reporting. We are also in the middle of an ambitious Finance Transformation programme with opportunities to leverage new tooling to optimise our processes.
We’re offering the opportunity to build on your existing knowledge and technical expertise. With us, you won’t be just a resource – you’ll be valued from day one. You’ll get genuine ownership and responsibility, and you’ll get to support the development of others whilst being supported yourself too.
Role Responsibilities
This role is in Retail Securitisation within the Legal Entity, Securitisation, Control & Reporting team. You will report into the Securitisation manager and responsibilities will include:
- Support the accurate and timely financial control and reporting of assigned Retail Securitisation entities.
- Prepare and review statutory financial statements, supporting working papers and directors’ reporting materials.
- Coordinate audit deliverables, respond to auditor queries and support accounts through to clearance, signing and filing.
- Complete month-end controls, including balance sheet reconciliations, ARCS profiles, journals and movement analysis.
- Investigate breaks, unusual movements and data inconsistencies, ensuring issues are resolved or escalated promptly.
- Prepare and validate securitisation data for Product Control, GDRS enrichment and other Group reporting requirements.
- Maintain strong control evidence and support compliance with Group Minimum Standards, SAO and governance requirements.
- Build effective relationships with Retail Finance, Treasury, External Reporting, Group Tax, auditors and other key stakeholders.
- Manage competing reporting and audit deadlines, providing clear updates on progress, risks and dependencies.
- Identify opportunities to simplify, standardise and automate processes while supporting knowledge sharing and team resilience.
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Why Lloyds Banking Group
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What you’ll need
You'll be a dedicated finance professional with an accounting qualification, and ideally with financial services sector or statutory reporting experience.
- Highly organised with a keen attention to detail and the ability to prioritise effectively in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong analytical skills and the passion to contribute to the success of the function are something we'd genuinely want to see in any applicant.
- A desire to improve existing processes, systems, and procedures through continuously challenging what we do and how we do it.
- You’ll need to be delivery driven and show a passion for producing quality work at pace.
- You’ll work in a highly collaborative way to ensure the correct reporting and assist in the analysis and explanation behind the numbers.
Desirable skills:
- A self starter, who is organised and has good attention to detail.
- Experience of Microsoft 365 suite, specifically Excel.
- Experience of using Finance Systems and software would be an advantage, or a proven ability to learn new systems in a short timescale, such as Power Apps, Phyton, AI.
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.
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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
You’ll learn new skills and be given opportunities to grow and develop to help you achieve a rewarding and fulfilling career. We’re a very supportive team who care about your wellbeing. Our Hybrid ways of working means that you can find a work-life balance that suits you, with a mix of home and office working. The expectation currently is that you work a minimum of two days a week at one of our offices.
If you’re excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch! We’d love to hear from you!
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.
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