Finance Risk Leader: SOX, Controls & Automation (Hybrid)

Lloyds Banking Group

Trinity

Hybrid

GBP 110,000 - 150,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Pension up to 15%

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30 days holiday + bank holidays

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Job summary

Lloyds Banking Group in the United Kingdom is seeking a Head of Finance Risk to lead the SOX programme and shape the group-wide risk and control framework. You will partner with senior Finance leaders to elevate risk insight, governance, and automation while driving transformation across financial reporting and regulatory compliance in a hybrid working model.

The role requires a seasoned finance leader with extensive SOX, risk management and business partnering experience, delivering strategic

Qualifications

Qualified finance professional with 10+ years post qualification experience as a leader in financial reporting.
5+ years’ experience in leading Financial Reporting Risk, including SOX programme in a large organisation, preferably in Banking.
Extensive business partnering experience, with a proven track record of providing strategic advice, challenge and support to senior Finance leaders, enabling them to effectively manage risk and controls performance.
Leader with drive, energy and an innovative approach, who leads by example and has experience of leading a large Finance team.
Strategic mind, with a passion for creating and driving future transformation and continuous improvement within Finance.
Excellent communicator, able to influence and articulate complex issues at all levels across LBG, building strong diverse working relationships across different parts of the Group.
Attract, inspire and lead a successful, diverse professional team actively managing performance to realise potential and retain talent.
Prior experience of leading a team through system, process or cultural change.

Responsibilities

Lead and shape the Finance business partnering agenda while serving as a trusted adviser to Finance leadership teams. Drive strong outcomes across the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) program, risk management, control effectiveness, and delivery of strategic priorities.
Lead the delivery of the SOX programme by guiding Finance Business Partners and senior leaders to improve performance and remediation results. Identify risks and control weaknesses early and promptly address critical issues. Hold control owners accountable for maintaining a strong, balanced control environment and for timely fixing of deficiencies and problems.
Influence and support the progress of Finance's control transformation and automation agenda. Work closely with Finance divisions to speed up automation, simplify and standardise the control environment. Support the Group's ambition to build a more efficient, scalable, resilient, and technology-enabled control framework.
Champion innovation in assurance by advocating for the integration of data and AI-assisted testing techniques to boost testing coverage, quality, and efficiency, while cutting down manual testing effort across the SOX programme.
Deliver strategic recommendations regarding risk, controls, and regulatory matters, interpreting complex SOX, risk, and regulatory demands into practical business-focused solutions and steps.
Lead and inspire a group of business partners by creating an environment that empowers colleagues to innovate, challenge the status quo, grow their careers, and achieve excellent results.
Enable executive governance and decision-making, coordinating high-quality risk insights, reporting, and narratives for senior leadership forums and key governance committees.