Finance Manager, Retail Transport Financial Reporting & Control, Group Finance Support

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

Job summary

Join a leading UK bank as a Finance Manager in Retail Transport Financial Reporting and Control. In this role, you'll manage a dedicated team, ensure accurate financial reporting, and maintain a high-standard control environment. The position offers a competitive salary package along with hybrid working options and a comprehensive benefits scheme designed for employee growth and well-being.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution of up to 15%

Annual performance-related bonus

Share schemes including free shares

30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top

Wellbeing initiatives and parental leave policies

Qualifications

• Professional finance qualification required with post qualification experience.
• Experience in financial control and statutory reporting is essential.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a team of 4 in Retail Transport Reporting & Control.
• Ensure timely, accurate reporting and maintain strong financial controls.
• Deliver statutory accounts and collaborate with Retail partners and auditors.

Skills

Financial Control

Statutory Reporting

Risk Management

Continuous Improvement

Communication

Team Management

Stakeholder Engagement

Education

Professional finance qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)

Tools

Group reporting & control systems

Financial Software

Job description

End Date

Monday 21 July 2025

Salary Range

£65,385 - £72,650

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

Flexible Working Options

Hybrid Working, Job Share

Job Description Summary

This exciting role offers the chance to join the Group Finance Support (GFS) Retail Financial Control & Reporting team, partnering with Retail Transport to maintain a strong control environment that underpins our financial reporting. You'll play an active role in the GFS Transport team, directly managing assistant finance managers, modelling strong financial control behaviours, and working with senior partners to provide sound guidance!

In addition, you will be responsible for leading the production of subsidiary financial statements, quarterly external reporting, and entity board reporting as part of the Legal Entity reporting delivery.

Job Description

Key Details

JOB TITLE: Finance Manager, Retail Transport Financial Reporting and Control

SALARY: as per pay range

LOCATION(S): Bristol Harbourside

HOURS: Full time 35 hours per week

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

You'll join us in Group Finance Support (GFS), a team of c350 colleagues within the Finance Division, providing centralised support and expertise to the rest of Finance and the Business.

This role sits within the Retail Financial Control and Reporting team in Group Finance Support, partnering with Retail Transport, you'll help maintain a strong control environment that ensures confidence in reporting. You'll also play an active role in the 18-person Transport team, with direct line management responsibility for 4 colleagues.

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’s empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose.

Day to day responsibilities

Your role will be varied, and no two days will look quite the same; some of your key priorities include:

• Lead and managea team of 4 in Retail Transport Reporting & Control, ensuring timely, accurate daily, monthly, and quarterly reporting and strong financial controls.

• Lead delivery of key Transport subsidiaries statutory accounts, working closely with Retail partners and external auditors on financial accounting matters.

• Embed robust risk managementand maintain a high-quality, ‘no-surprises’ control environment, resolving issues quickly through effective collaboration.

• Champion continuous improvement, focusing on data quality and automation.

• Build strong partnershipsto deliver accurate, insightful reporting for Group and subsidiary needs.

• Act as SME, supporting transformation and change initiatives in collaboration with Platform teams.

• Foster a development-focused culture, promoting continuous learning and contributing to wider team growth helping ensure GFS is well placed to deliver now and for the future.

What you’ll need

Education:

• Professional finance qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) with post qualification experience in both financial control and statutory reporting.

Technical skills & experience:

• Knowledge and experience of Group reporting & control systems or other external financial software; together with an understanding of latest key (IFRS) accounting standards.

• Leading delivery of statutory accounts including understanding of Legal Entities.

• Strong experience in financial control and risk reporting. For internal candidates this would include LBG RSCA and SOX framework; with an awareness of the key risks facing LBG Finance.

Behavioural skills:

• Passion for financial control and statutory reporting with drive, energy and a growth mindset, leading by example demonstrating our values and behaviours.

• Experience in leading, coaching and mentoring colleagues to perform at their best.

• Excellent communicator, able to influence and articulate complex issues at all levels, building strong collaborative diverse working relationships across different parts of the Group.

• Strategic problem solver, with a passion for creating and driving future transformation and continuous improvement within Finance.

And any experience of these would be really useful

Power app suite and/or automation tools.

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.

Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more.

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.