Finance & Insights Industrial Placement: Shape Strategy

Lloyds Banking Group; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 26,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

Lloyds Banking Group is seeking an Accounting and Business Insights Industrial Placement in the UK. You’ll dive into data, support monthly reporting, and help shape future decisions by turning numbers into actionable insights.

You’ll gain broad exposure across finance, risk management and product development during a year of hands-on learning. Be in your penultimate year at university and ready to contribute in a hybrid setup across multiple UK locations, with access to learning and development

Qualifications

• Finance-fluent and able to produce timely, decision-ready financial information.
• Commercially sharp with understanding of how revenue is generated.
• Insight-driven approach to analysing data to reveal opportunities.
• Tech-enabled mindset using analytics tools and automation to improve processes.
• Ability to build trusted relationships and influence decisions with data.

Responsibilities

• Supporting monthly reporting cycles and producing accurate results and commentary.
• Analysing data to explain drivers of performance and potential improvements.
• Building reports and visualisations to support cross‑functional decision making.
• Working with teams to improve processes, increase efficiency and reduce risk.
• Turning complex numbers into clear, practical insights for stakeholders.
• Partnering with the business to understand performance and influence future decisions.

Skills

Finance fluency

Commercial awareness

Insight-driven analysis

Tech-enabled analytics

Influential stakeholder relationships

Tools

Analytics tools

Reporting platforms

Automation

Job description

Lloyds Banking Group is seeking an Accounting and Business Insights Industrial Placement in the UK. You’ll dive into data, support monthly reporting, and help shape future decisions by turning numbers into actionable insights.

You’ll gain broad exposure across finance, risk management and product development during a year of hands-on learning. Be in your penultimate year at university and ready to contribute in a hybrid setup across multiple UK locations, with access to learning and development