Finance Manager – Corporate & Institutional Finance Business Partnering

Lloyds Bank plc; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 73,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution in Bristol seeks a Finance Manager for Corporate & Institutional Finance. The role involves building stakeholder relationships, delivering financial updates, and supporting strategic decisions. Ideal candidates will hold a finance qualification and have experience in business partnering. Flexible working options available.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution of up to 15%

Annual performance-related bonus

30 days' holiday plus bank holidays

Wellbeing initiatives

Qualifications

• Ability to proactively interpret performance & deals using a variety of sources.
• Experience in Business partnering and influencing Senior Stakeholders.
• Agility and strong prioritization skills.

Responsibilities

• Build positive relationships with stakeholders.
• Deliver financial performance updates and control them.
• Support strategic decisions around pricing and investment.

Skills

Curiosity

Relationship Management

Commercial Acumen

Change Adoption

Education

Finance qualification (fully qualified), ACA, ACCA / CIMA

Job description

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Finance Manager – Corporate & Institutional Finance Business Partnering

Apply locations Bristol time type Full time posted on Posted Yesterday time left to apply End Date: August 16, 2025 (14 days left to apply) job requisition id 140617

End Date

Friday 15 August 2025

Salary Range

£65,385 - £72,650

We support flexible working – click here for more information on flexible working options

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TITLE: Finance Business Partner – Corporate & Institutional Business (CIB)
LOCATION: Bristol (occasional travel to London when required)
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

Shape the Future of Finance with Us

This is your chance to bring your experience to a Finance Business Partner (FBP) role to support and drive forward the Corporate and Institutional Banking business (CIB).

CIB serves our largest clients both in the UK and internationally through a strategy of deepening relationships, expanding Institutional Coverage and supporting the Group’s broader growth ambitions. Our business model - centred on supporting clients with Debt, Cash and Risk Management products is seen as a key differentiator in the market.

The CIB FBP team sits within a wider CB Finance Business Partnering function which also faces off the Business and Commercial Banking side of the business. We are a team of c30 colleagues with a diverse set of backgrounds allowing us to bring different experiences and perspectives when supporting our stakeholders. The team aspires to be an exemplar of the Group’s values (Bold, Trust, Sustainable & Inclusive) whilst putting people first through an enhanced focus on colleague development and wellbeing.

As a FBP you will partner stakeholders across the CIB business and finance, providing financial support at a Managing Director level supported by a Senior Finance Manager. You'll bring the whole suite of Finance to the business to support and challenge growth.

Job Description

Day to day you will:

• Build positive relationships, communicate with the business and other stakeholders
• Deliver regular and ad hoc financial performance updates, reviewing and controlling these before they reach our partners
• Support the business in making strategic decisions around pricing, proposition and Investment including our 2026+ strategy
• Learn the business, show curiosity to understand performance and processes and build new analysis, interpreting data from various sources
• Forecasting and Planning to help set strategic direction , providing challenge to ensure we meet our financial commitments
• Build an in depth knowledge on how the Division allocates scarce resources, across Costs and Capital providing to advise the business on how to improve returns
• Support our Transformation journey
• Provide guidance on technical accounting / proposed benefits of new deals and products
  

What you will need

• A curiosity to learn about the business, performance and our processes to deliver insight, control and challenge
• An ability to proactively interpret performance & deals using a variety of sources and articulate this clearly to a variety of stakeholders
• 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 continually improve our offering to stakeholders & stretch yourself to do so.
• Finance qualification (fully qualified), ACA, ACCA / CIMA
• Experience in Business partnering and challenging / influencing Senior Stakeholders to drive business performance forwards using persuasive relationship management
• Experience in Forecasting and Planning
• Agility and strong prioritisation skills to manage the demands of the business
• Commercial Acumen – using understanding to challenge performance and advice on actions to improve
• Change adoption – actively embraces change and drives improvements to enhance efficiency allowing more focus on most valuable activities

About working for us

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

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.

We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.

We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.

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.

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.

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With 320 years under our belt, we're used to change, and today is no different. Join us and help drive this change, shaping the future of finance whilst working at pace to deliver for our customers.

Here, you'll do the best work of your career. Your impact will be amplified by our scale as you learn and develop, gaining skills for the future.

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