Assistant Finance Manager – Financial Control (12 Month FTC) in Edinburgh

Salary Range: £44,901 - £49,890

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Flexible Working Options: Hybrid Working, Job Share

Location: Edinburgh

Hours: Full-time

Working Pattern: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our Edinburgh office.

About this opportunity:

At LBG, we have a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper and to become the best Financial Services provider for our customers. Through our brands, our Group has a relationship with just about every household and community in the UK. We underpin the lives of millions of individuals and businesses and play a key role in helping to build a growing UK economy.

This role sits within the Commercial Banking Financial Control but supports the Retail division and Reporting team within Control & Reporting, who are responsible for financial control activity for the Commercial Banking division (CB) such as income recognition, reconciliation and substantiation of financial data, guardianship of the ledger and ensuring risks are appropriately recorded, escalated and resolved.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and hardworking candidate to support the Finance Manager in leading a Finance team responsible for ensuring the ledger is complete and accurate for Core Commercial Lending & Deposit platforms. Involves both preparation and review of month end journals, balance sheet substantiation preparation and regular interaction with Finance Business Partners, production of management reporting and other financial control processes.

What you'll be doing:

• Deliver accurate and timely month-end financial control, reporting and consolidation activities.
• Produce management, statutory, regulatory and governance reporting for the IMS portfolio.
• Prepare, review and substantiate balance sheet reconciliations, investigating and resolving financial control issues.
• Maintain a strong financial control framework through effective controls, risk management and audit support.
• Build trusted relationships with Finance, Risk and business stakeholders to ensure reporting integrity and resolve issues.
• Coordinate regulatory reporting and governance requirements, ensuring robust review and sign-off.
• Drive automation, process improvement and Finance Transformation initiatives to enhance efficiency, control and data quality.
• Utilise digital tools such as Power Query, Power Automate and reporting solutions to streamline processes and reduce operational risk.
• Support knowledge sharing, continuous improvement and team-wide collaboration.

What you'll need:

• Accountancy qualification – ICAS (or equivalent), ACCA or CIMA;
• Passion for Financial control and a curious mindset;
• Good analytical skills;
• Good stakeholder management skills;
• Confidence to challenge;
• Desire to embrace and emulate LBG’s Grow With Purpose ethos.

And any experience of these would be really useful:

• Financial services experience;
• Strong risk awareness.

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
• 28 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.