Finance Manager, IP&I Commercial Finance & Business Partnering

Lloyds Banking Group; Moor Side; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution in the UK is seeking a Finance Manager to oversee the D2C planning cycle. You will deliver accurate reporting, provide insightful analysis, and partner with various teams to drive business performance. The role requires a professional finance qualification and strong analytical skills, alongside experience with financial modelling and Excel. This position offers a generous pension, annual bonus, and benefits tailored to lifestyle needs.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution up to 15%

Annual performance-related bonus

Share schemes including free shares

Discounted shopping benefits

30 days' holiday plus bank holidays

Wellbeing initiatives and parental leave policies

Qualifications

• A professional finance qualification with personal growth and achievement.
• Strong financial planning and analytical skills.
• Robust Excel and financial modelling skills, including familiarity with key planning tools.

Responsibilities

• Manage the end-to-end D2C planning cycle, including budgets and forecasts.
• Deliver accurate, timely reporting and consolidate D2C performance.
• Provide insights on variances, trends, and performance drivers.

Skills

Strong financial planning and analytical skills

Robust Excel and financial modelling skills

Organisational skills for finance models

Ability to interpret performance

Build trusted relationships

Curiosity to learn about the business

Innovation in problem solving

Education

Professional finance qualification

Tools

Power BI

Job description

Looking for a new role in a high‑performing team? Join the IP&I Commercial Finance & Business Partnering team supporting Direct to Consumer (D2C) Investments. As Finance Manager, you'll deliver robust forecasting, accurate reporting, and insightful analysis to support strategic decisions and operational delivery. You'll build relationships across a wide range of stakeholders in this key growth area, working with the business to achieve ambitious targets while developing knowledge of D2C platforms and products. If you have an enquiring, analytical mindset, can juggle priorities, build strong collaborations, and seek opportunities to simplify and improve in a changing environment, we'd love to hear from you.

Responsibilities

• Manage the end-to-end D2C planning cycle, including budgets, forecasts, and model development.
• Deliver accurate, timely reporting and consolidate D2C performance with centres of excellence.
• Provide insights on variances, trends, and performance drivers, including pricing and campaign proposals.
• Partner with teams to explain cost allocations and variances, ensuring transparency.
• Support strategic initiatives by providing flexibility and cover for finance SMEs.
• Build and review treasury performance updates and formal forecasts, ensuring compliance.
• Optimise treasury returns across banking partners while managing risk and liquidity policies.
• Monitor client money liquidity, diversification, and tenor, maintaining regulatory compliance.
• Ensure full compliance with internal controls and regulatory requirements.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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.

Qualifications

• A professional finance qualification, with a strong track record of personal growth and achievement.
• Strong financial planning and analytical skills.
• Robust Excel and financial modelling skills, including familiarity with key planning tools (PAX) and a clear understanding of the LBG finance ecosystem.
• Strong organisational skills, maintaining tightly controlled finance models & associated audit trails.
• An ability to proactively interpret performance using a variety of sources and articulate this clearly to a variety of stakeholders.
• A curiosity to learn about the business, performance, and our processes to deliver insight, control and challenge, ideally linking that to FCA's CASS framework.
• An ability to build trusted relationships with a variety of people and teams and work with those teams to support our purpose and goals.
• Bringing innovation to problem solving. Exhibit high level of curiosity around technology, markets, and the business area and research issues to aid driving high quality design, insight, advice and guidance.
• Knowledge of applications such as Power BI would be an advantage.

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