Head of Finance: Retail Cost Centre of Excellence

Salary Range: £116,535 - £137,100

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Location: Edinburgh, Leeds, Bristol or Halifax

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 one of our office sites.

An excellent opportunity has arisen for a Head of Finance to join the Group Cost Management team. This role is responsible for leading the Consumer cost centre of excellence team, managing a team of approximately 40 finance professionals across Yorkshire and Bristol to deliver month-end cost reporting and planning for the Consumer Division, drive automation of processes, and provide SME input into Cost Planning Transformation.

This role comes at a pivotal point in the ongoing transformation of the function, offering significant opportunity to shape the future direction of the team and influence the evolution of cost management across the wider Finance function.

What you'll be doing:

• Setting the benchmark and leading the team on all month-end activities for Consumer Lending and Relationships.
• Providing review, challenge, question and insight on all key outputs to ensure the highest standard and quality.
• Maintaining a safely controlled cost and risk environment.
• Reviewing, investigating and challenging material exceptions and providing supporting information.
• Building and managing relationships with all key stakeholders, seeking feedback from customers and inspiring the team to deliver improvements.
• Being accountable for the delivery of the forecast & planning process ensuring excellent communications with all stakeholders and exceptional execution of processes.
• Contributing to the strategic direction of the Cost Centre of Excellence including playing a leadership role in the Cost Transformation Programme.
• Providing active engagement with the Finance business partners to ensure an excellent flow of communication and standards of inputs/outputs.
• Embedding the Lloyds Banking Group culture and vision through visible leadership, being a role model for the Group’s leadership behaviours.
• Building a robust team, ensuring colleagues are developed effectively, utilising the groups Your Best principles.

What we’re looking for:

• Scale leader who can motivate and drive delivery across a multi-site team, with a track record of developing high performing teams.
• Experience of leading large scale planning and reporting processes.
• Track record of developing a culture of process improvements, identifying opportunities for automation and simplification.
• Depth of relevant financial experience, to understand and apply relevant financial principles and controls, ensuring strong financial control is applied.
• A proven people leader with experience operating in or leading within a Centre of Excellence model, able to motivate and drive delivery across a large, multi-site team.
• Fully qualified accountant (e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) with significant post-qualification experience.

About working for us:

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities. We’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop. We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns.

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 start growing with purpose? Apply today!

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