Senior Finance Business Partner - Group Executive Functions in Edinburgh

An excellent opportunity has arisen for Senior Finance Business Partner for Finance BAU. The role manages a team of 3 direct reports, sits within the Group Cost & Investment team and is responsible for partnering the Divisional Finance Directorates, with a total annual spend of c.£240m. This role provides challenge and insight and the need to demonstrate an un-questionable appetite to understand the Divisional Finance areas they support. Using knowledge of the cost drivers, they clearly and concisely articulate the story behind monthly results to senior customers, drive planning and forecasting activity and provide challenge and analysis to support the accuracy and robustness of the Finance BAU plans.

What you'll be doing:

• Lead Finance Business Partnering activities including but not limited to:
• Provide high quality partnering support to the Divisional Finance teams day to day.
• Present Management Reports to senior stakeholders, including the Group Cost & Investment Director, ensuring that results and issues are well understood and explained in a way that is relevant.
• Identify and assess any risks to the cost profile across Finance BAU and work collaboratively with DFD areas to ensure actions are in place to mitigate.
• Build solid relationships with the Divisional Finance reps to develop a robust ‘no surprises’ culture.
• Work with divisional Finance teams in understanding Investment related benefits, with oversight and independent review of SI benefit validation & reporting.
• Financial governance & oversight including SOX and balance sheet control.
• Become fully engaged on relevant Signature and Essential Actions. Ensure divisional Finance areas are interlocked on all investment/project benefits.
• Provide guidance and support to direct reports, identifying development needs through regular check-ins and coaching them to be their best at work.
• Provide active engagement with the Centre of Excellence to ensure an excellent flow of communication and standards of inputs/outputs.
• Embed the Lloyds Banking Group culture and vision through visible leadership, being a role model for the Group’s leadership behaviours.

What We’re Looking For:

• Excellent attention to detail and organisational skills, with the ability to prioritise effectively and deliver to deadlines.
• Deep financial experience, with an understanding of core financial principles and controls, including risk and cost management.
• Strong business partnering capability, with the ability to work constructively with a range of stakeholders across Finance.
• The ability to engage in constructive challenge, both with and from the Business, to support robust decision‑making.
• The ability to apply judgement to resolve issues, escalating when needed and working collaboratively with stakeholders to reach the right outcome for the Group.
• Build effective working relationships across Divisional Finance and Finance Platform teams to support delivery.
• Strong leadership capability, with the ability to prioritise work, provide direction, and support team members in a small team environment.
• Comfortable managing urgent requests and changing priorities, adapting focus as needed while maintaining delivery of core activities.

About working for us:

Our focus is to ensure we’re inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We’re committed to creating a consciously inclusive workplace where our colleagues can be themselves, thrive and perform at their best. 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. As an inclusive employer, we offer Workplace Adjustments for colleagues with a disability (which may include long-term health and neurodivergent conditions) where it is reasonable to do so. This could include flexibility with regards to office attendance, location, and working pattern.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. If you have a disability, you can also apply via our Disability Confident Scheme (DCS). Through the DCS, we guarantee to interview a fair and proportionate number of applicants with a disability, whose application meets the minimum criteria for the advertised job role. We also provide adjustments that are reasonable throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers for applicants with a disability, long-term health condition or neurodivergent condition. If you’d like an adjustment to the recruitment process just let us know.

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.

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.