Finance Manager - Retail Divisional Planning in Leeds

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Lead executive insight for the UK's largest Retail Banking business in a highly visible Finance role at the heart of strategic decision-making. You'll shape forecasting, stress testing and executive reporting, partnering with senior leaders to influence key outcomes across the division. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment, enjoy solving complex problems and want exposure to senior stakeholders, this is a fantastic opportunity to make a real impact while accelerating your career.

An exciting opportunity to join the Retail Divisional Planning team and lead executive insight for the UK's largest Retail Banking business. This role sits at the heart of Retail Finance, supporting consolidated forecasting, stress testing and executive decision-making across the business. You'll work closely with senior finance leaders to provide meaningful insight on financial performance, helping shape strategic decisions and future outcomes. It's a unique opportunity to gain exposure across a broad range of Retail products while making a visible impact within a high-profile team!

What you’ll be doing:

• Shape and deliver high-quality executive consolidated planning decks covering the Profit & Loss and Balance Sheet, demonstrating advanced storytelling capability and ensuring accuracy and completeness throughout each forecasting cycle.
• Co-ordinate and lead Retail Finance stress testing activities, working with a broad range of people across Group, Finance Business Partners, Treasury and senior Finance leadership.
• Lead and deliver other planning activities including income waterfalls, margin evolution and ad hoc analysis for Divisional Finance Directors and Finance Directors, ensuring appropriate governance and control throughout.
• Apply a pragmatic approach to problem-solving and deliver effective solutions to support key planning and stress testing activities.
• Demonstrate strong commercial awareness, sound judgement and a questioning approach while managing multiple partners through planning and stress testing cycles.
• Continuously improve existing stress testing processes to increase efficiency, enhance outputs and strengthen collaboration across multiple functions.
• Act as a role model for the Group's culture and leadership behaviours through visible leadership and collaboration.

Why join us?

We’re transforming at pace. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to change the way we meet the needs of our 28 million customers. We’re growing, and we’d love you to be part of the journey.

What we’re looking for:

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) with 3+ years' as a Finance professional including financial planning, forecasting and analysis within a Financial Services setting.
• 3+ years' experience preparing and presenting financial insights, management information or executive-level reporting within a complex organisation.
• Demonstrating strong communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to simplify complex financial information for all levels of the organisation.
• Strong leadership, taking ownership and leading cross-functional planning, forecasting or stress testing activities and building positive relationships, with capability to influence others and drive forward actions.
• Aptitude to thrive in a fast-paced environment and under pressure, whilst delivering accurate output, showing ability to prioritise multiple deadlines and maintain high levels of accuracy.
• Curiosity to learn and grow, enjoying being challenged by new opportunities that arise.

We know that great talent comes from many backgrounds. Whilst this job advert may reference specific years of experience, we recognise that skills are developed in many ways, so if you have relevant, transferable experience, we encourage you to apply.

This is a place for you. 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 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

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'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.