Finance Manager – Financial Control (12-Month FTC)

Lloyds Banking Group; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services organization is seeking a Finance Manager to lead the financial control team on a 12-month fixed-term contract in Edinburgh. The ideal candidate will be a qualified accountant with strong leadership and communication skills, passionate about financial reporting and continuous improvement. This role offers a hybrid working model and a competitive salary package including benefits such as a generous pension contribution and performance-related bonuses.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution of up to 15%

Annual performance-related bonus

Share schemes including free shares

30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays

Wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Qualifications

• Proven experience in financial control and reporting.
• Strong delivery focus with a drive for continuous improvement.
• Able to establish cross-functional relationships effectively.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of professional individuals.
• Ensure all month-end process deadlines are met.
• Collaborate closely with various internal teams and external auditors.

Skills

Qualified accountant

Excellent communicator

Passion for financial control and reporting

Strong background in delivery and continuous improvement

Problem-solving approach

Education

Qualified accountant

Job description

JOB TITLE: Finance Manager - Financial Control (12-Month FTC)

SALARY: £65,385 - £79,915

LOCATION(S): Edinburgh

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.

About this opportunity

At Lloyds Banking Group, we have a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper and to become the best Financial Services provider for our customers. Through our brands, our Group has a relationship with just about every household and community in the UK. We underpin the lives of millions of individuals and businesses and play a key role in helping to build a growing UK economy.

You’ll join us in Group Finance Support (GFS), a team of c200 colleagues within the Finance Division, providing centralised support and expertise to the rest of Finance and the Business.

This role is a 12‑month fixed‑term contract, supporting the Commercial Banking (CB) Financial Control team in Group Finance Support responsible for the financial control activity, reconciliation and basis of substantiation of data on a monthly basis.

Day to day responsibilities

• Lead, coach and develop a team of professional individuals
• Lead the month end process ensuring all deadlines are met
• Collaborating closely with a large number of internal teams including finance business partners, other GFS teams, operational teams, company secretarial and external auditors
• Taking ownership of control issues or balance sheet breaks, ensuring that these are owned and remediating action plans are in place
• Collaborating closely with a large number of internal teams including finance business partners, other GFS teams, operational teams, and external auditors
• Delivery focused and thrives working in a time pressured environment over month end
• Demonstrate proficient stakeholder management skills and ability to create effective working relationships across multiple Finance teams
• Actively support and empower junior colleagues to assist in the creation of a successful and engaged team to achieve objectives and deliver above expectations
• Review and oversight of junior colleagues’ outputs, and timely escalation to appropriate management for issue resolution
• Proactively challenge processes to support a culture of continuous improvement and a curious mind‑set
• Maintain a robust financial control framework

Why Lloyds Banking Group

If you think all banks are the same, you'd be wrong. We're an innovative, fast‑changing business that’s shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that empowers its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose.

What you’ll need

• A qualified accountant, preferably with experience of financial control and reporting and transactions.
• 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.
• A leader with drive, energy and a growth mindset, who leads by example.
• Strong background of delivery and driving continuous improvement with a focus on automation solutions and driving innovation.
• Proven ability to build, influence, and maintain effective cross-functional relationships.
• Able to plan ahead and organise work in a systematic and organised way to ensure that personal, team and functional objectives are achieved.
• 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.

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. 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.

Benefits

• 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! We’d love to hear from you!