Finance Business Partner, Group Cost & Investment in Bristol

Join Group Cost & Investment at Lloyds Banking Group, stepping into a key role! You’ll own costs across £240m Investment and BAU portfolio, partnering with two flagship Consumer Relationship platforms: Economic Crime Prevention (ECP)—building the technology and controls that meet regulatory requirements and keep customers’ money safe—and Personalised Experiences & Communications (PEC)—using data, technology and creativity to equip colleagues to make every customer engagement count.

This is a unique chance to support 2 ambitious platforms that are central to the Retail strategy. The role presents a great opportunity to understand and influence the strategy and financial outcomes of the Platforms – how they spend Investment and BAU funding, how we measure the benefits from the Investment and how the Platforms are driving ongoing efficiency through their workforce plan, use of technology and ways of working.

Day to day responsibilities:

• Helping the Platforms to plan successfully and contributing to the setting of direction and goals
• Sharing Management information with senior stakeholders, ensuring that results and issues are clearly explained and well understood and that follow-up actions are clear
• Supporting and challenging the business, creating 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 Centre of Excellence, enhancing 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 behaviors
• Supporting the Head of Finance in building and maintaining a talented team, ensuring colleagues are developed effectively

What you’ll need:

• Prior experience of Finance Business Partnering, influencing and driving improvement in Business results
• Ability to interact with stakeholders at all levels across Finance and Business teams
• Listening, joining the dots and summarising the story (across Investment and BAU 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 in supporting Change / Transformation including the impact of different technologies on financial statements would be valuable

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 offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns.

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

If you’re excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We’d love to hear from you.