Senior Manager – Business Management

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

• Experience in business management, performance, finance, strategy or operational leadership within a large and complex organisation.
• Strong business and commercial insight, using data and evidence to see opportunities and drive value.
• Excellent data literacy and analytical capability, translating complex information into actionable insight.
• Strong storytelling and communication skills, influencing senior customers through clear and compelling narratives.
• A proven ability to build trusted relationships and influence across teams, disciplines and leadership levels.
• Strong critical thinking and problem-solving capability, using challenge, judgement and evidence to shape decisions.
• Experience leading teams and developing colleague capability within a high-performing environment.
• Experience of financial management, investment governance and workforce planning across complex portfolios.
• An interest in emerging technologies, automation and AI, driving more efficient and effective ways of working.

And any experience of these would be really useful

• A professional finance qualification is desirable but not essential.
• Experience within financial services, large-scale transformation programmes or platform operating models would be advantageous

What You'll Get In Return

This role offers the opportunity to influence how the Finance Platform and wider FCOO function deliver value and performance. You'll work closely with senior leaders across FCOO, Finance and Technology to shape priorities, optimise investment and improve business outcomes.

You'll gain significant exposure across the FCOO leadership community, supporting high-profile transformation activity while helping build a more insight-led, efficient and value-focused organisation.

We're committed to creating an inclusive environment where colleagues can thrive, develop and make a meaningful contribution to the future success of Finance and FCOO.

• Lead and develop a high-performing team, fostering curiosity, accountability and continuous improvement.
• Champion automation, self-service insight and AI-enabled productivity across FCOO.
• Role model values-led leadership and accountability, creating clarity, confidence and momentum.

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
• 30 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.