BCB & CIB Finance Business Partner

Lloyds Banking Group; Bristol; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 73,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services organization is seeking a Finance Business Partner to provide financial support within business banking areas. You'll build relationships, lead performance updates, and support strategic decision-making. Candidates should have a finance qualification and experience in a similar role. The position offers a hybrid working model and a comprehensive benefits package.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution of up to 15%

Annual performance-related bonus

Share schemes including free shares

Discounted shopping benefits

30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays

Range of wellbeing initiatives

Qualifications

• Experience in a finance team or business area is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Build trusted relationships across business and finance.
• Lead financial performance updates, interpreting financials.
• Support strategic decisions around pricing and investment.
• Collaborate within the finance business partner community.
• Forecasting and planning to meet financial commitments.

Skills

Proactivity

Curiosity

Relationship building

Desire to improve processes

Growth mindset

Education

Finance qualification

Job description

Job Description Summary

Job Title: Finance Business Partner

Salary: £65,385 - £72,650

Location: Bristol, London or Edinburgh

Hours: 35 hours, full time

Working Pattern: Hybrid, spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites.

About this opportunity

This is an exciting opportunity to bring your experience to a finance business partner role to support and drive forward Business & Commercial Banking (BCB) and Corporate and Institutional Banking (CIB) business. BCB serves the financial needs of small and medium sized businesses and CIB serves the needs of large clients who have a strong link to the UK, both driven by the Groups purpose of Helping Britain Proposer and ensuring Sustainability and Strategic objectives are delivered.

What will I be doing?

The role will partner stakeholders across the BCB & CIB business and finance, providing financial support to business supporting Products, Segments, Investment and Portfolio management, working within a large and diverse business partnering community, supported by a senior manager.

Day to day you’ll:

• Build trusted relationships across business and finance
• Build and lead regular and ad hoc financial performance updates, interpreting financials and challenging the business
• Support the business in making strategic decisions around pricing, proposition and Investment
• Learn in depth about the products we offer across BCB & CIB, needing to show curiosity to understand performance and build new analysis to help drive this forward
• Forecasting and Planning to help set the direction of the business providing challenge to ensure we meet our financial commitments
• Collaborate with the wider FBP community to support the BCB Growth Forum and CIB Finance Resource Meeting
• Build an in depth knowledge on how a bank makes money, including Income, Costs, Capital and Funding & liquidity providing expert advice to the business

Why Lloyds Banking Group

From building a truly sustainable business to creating a place where people love to work, we need colleagues who are up for the challenge of our bold ambitions. Who are excited to push boundaries and make change happen. Together, we can grow with purpose.

What you’ll need

• Proactivity to interpret performance and clearly communicate key stories and messages to the business
• A curiosity to learn about the business, performance and our processes to deliver insight, control and courage to challenge
• An ability to build trusted relationships with a variety of people and teams and work with those teams to support our purpose and goals
• A desire to improve the way we do things
• Growth mindset looking at consistently improving the way we operate and the value we add
• Experience of working within a similar team or business area is desirable, and a finance qualification

We’re committed to building a values-led culture and are focused on creating a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. We’re disability confident and welcome applications from underrepresented groups.

We 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

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