Senior Finance Business Partner – Lloyds Wealth in Leeds

Salary Range £85,493 - £100,580. We support flexible working – click here for more information on flexible working options.

Flexible Working Options: Flexibility in when hours are worked, Hybrid Working, Job Share.

Job Description Summary: Ready to make your mark in a growing area as part of the Lloyds Wealth business? As a Senior Finance Business Partner, you'll be at the heart of our Insurance, Pensions & Investments Lloyds Wealth business, using data, insight and influential partnerships to help shape strategic decisions and drive commercial success. Partnering with senior stakeholders, including Executive leaders, you'll provide trusted advice, challenge thinking and help turn ambition into results. This is more than a finance role—it's an opportunity to influence the future direction of a major business, build meaningful relationships and create impact at scale.

About this opportunity: We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced finance professional to join our Wealth Management business within Insurance, Pensions & Investments. As a Senior Finance Business Partner, you’ll play a key role in helping the business achieve its strategic goals. Working closely with senior leaders and commercial colleagues, you’ll provide financial insight, support decision-making, and help shape the future direction of the business. This is a highly visible role where you’ll combine financial expertise with commercial thinking to influence outcomes, drive performance and bring value for customers and the organisation. You’ll lead business partnering activity for the Wealth business, ensuring leaders have the information, insight and challenge needed to make informed decisions in a dynamic and evolving environment!

What you’ll be doing:

• Business partnering the Client Office, supporting with proposition and commercial decisions.
• Leading Lloyds Wealth business partnering team.
• Development of financial forecasts.
• Assessment of operating model and unit costs.
• Communication of financial and key management results.
• Identification and management of financial risks & opportunities.
• Continued development of the business cases and tracking of benefits.

Why join us? If you think all banks are the same, you’re wrong. We’re a pioneering, fast-changing business that’s shaping finance as a force for good. If you’re after a role where you can have an impact and do the best work of your career, you’ve just found it!

What we’re looking for:

• Fully qualified accountant.
• 5 plus years developing strong finance skills including cost management, business case development and financial reporting.
• A numerate problem solver with a commercial approach (able to understand the economic impact of decisions).
• 5 plus years gaining strong business partnering capability, with the ability to work constructively with a range of colleagues across divisions and teams.
• The willingness to embrace challenge, learn and drive pace at change is critical.
• 5 plus years leadership experience demonstrating a collaborative approach building excellent relationships with multiple partners and able to operate in a matrix team structure.
• Proven ability to engage in constructive challenge and influence the right outcomes, balancing business needs and customer experience.
• Expert communication techniques through storytelling and can simplify complex messages into a succinct, high-quality stories for leadership.

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: 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 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 want to ensure all our candidates have the opportunity to shine. Please let us know if there is anything we can do to make the sure the assessment process works 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

Ready to do the best work of your career? 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. With 320 years under our belt, we're used to change, and today is no different. Join us and help drive this change, shaping the future of finance whilst working at pace to deliver for our customers. Here, you'll do the best work of your career. Your impact will be amplified by our scale as you learn and develop, gaining skills for the future.

Contact: Should you wish to contact us for any reason, please email us at: careers@lloydsbanking.com