Finance Valuation Control Assistant Manager - 12 month FTC in Edinburgh

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Join our Finance Valuation and Control team in Edinburgh and play a key role in delivering accurate financial reporting across Commercial Banking and Treasury products. Working within Product Control, you'll help analyse performance, strengthen financial controls and provide valuable insight that supports business decisions. You'll collaborate with colleagues across the organisation to investigate issues, drive improvements and contribute to a high-performing team environment. If you're looking to build your experience in banking and financial markets while making a real impact, we'd love to hear from you!

About this opportunity:

Looking to build your expertise in banking and financial markets while playing a key role in delivering insight, strengthening controls and supporting financial performance across Commercial Banking and Treasury products? Working in our Finance Valuation and Control team within Product Control, you'll help analyse performance, strengthen financial controls and provide valuable insight that makes a difference.

What you’ll be doing:

• Preparation of daily P&L production, reconciliations, signoffs and issue resolution.
• Supporting the month end close processes associated with accurately reporting and independently validating the bank’s balance sheet in a timely manner through the preparation of complex reconciliations leading to several journal postings.
• Preparation of analysis and in-depth commentary on P&L and balance sheet movements.
• Supporting a robust control framework for all processes within remit.
• Undertaking ad hoc work and investigation arising from partner requests.
• Supporting delivery of efficiencies and a culture of continuous improvement.
• Establishing and building relationships with partners.

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:

• Qualified or part qualified accountant.
• At least 12 months gaining knowledge of Financial Instruments.
• 12 months or more developing relationship building and stakeholder management skills.
• Numerate and competent with MS Office applications, with 12 months or more experience with Excel.
• Experience of working in Financial Control or Audit would be really useful.
• Experience of SQL and Macros.
• Understanding and exposure to Capital Market and Loan Markets products.
• Knowledge of Fair Value methodologies and valuation techniques.

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 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
• 28 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? Apply today.

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.