Senior Manager Group Finance Support (Commercial Banking)

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

About this opportunity

You'll join us in Group Finance Support (GFS), a key function within the Finance community of LBG. We're a team of c.300 colleagues, with responsibilities including financial reporting and control, people and culture initiatives and strategy implementation.

The team is at the start of a significant Transformation journey, and you'll be part of influencing, designing and implementing Finance Transformation over the next 5 years, both within GFS and beyond!

What you'll be doing

You'll lead and develop a team of approximately 12 colleagues responsible for financial control and reporting for LBG Commercial Banking division. As a Senior Manager you'll role model strong financial control behaviours; influence key senior partners and contribute to broader strategic direction and business decision making by providing insight, control and thought leadership.

Accountabilities will include:

• Leading the operations of the team, including managing capacity, ensuring monthly and quarterly control and reporting deadlines are met;
• Establishing effective relationships with partners within Commercial Banking Finance and Business teams, including presenting at senior level meetings and supporting Commercial Banking strategic aims;
• Establishing and driving a strong financial control & risk framework with completion of monthly reporting, both internally and externally;
• Leading on issue management, communicating and facilitating resolution
• Leading a development focused team and demonstrating continuous learning and self-development.
• Actively contribute to the GFS extended leadership team by driving activity on one of our people pillars.

About us

We're on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we're shaping finance for good. We're focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you.

What you'll need

• Excellent communicator, able to influence and articulate complex issues, building strong diverse working relationships across different parts of the Group
• Passion for Financial control and reporting and questioning mindset;
• Experience of leading and developing a team
• Strong background of delivery and driving continuous improvement against a constantly evolving landscape
• Bring a problem-solving approach with the ability to challenge and constructively debate key issues. Works collaboratively with a diverse group of partners, utilising well-developed relationship skills
• Ability to assess the impact of change on products, systems, processes and people.

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 want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.

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.

And it's why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.

We're disability confident. So, if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance
• 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.