Head of Finance Risk

Lloyds Banking Group; Trinity; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension up to 15%

Annual bonus

Share schemes

Discounts

30 days holiday + bank holidays

Wellbeing initiatives

Parental leave

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.

Skills

SOX program leadership

Financial reporting

Business partnering

Strategic influence

Leadership

Communication

Innovation & automation

Risk management

Job description

End Date

Friday 04 September 2026

Salary Range

£0 - £0

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

Flexible Working Options

Hybrid Working, Job Share

Job Description Summary

Ready to shape the future of Finance Risk & Controls and make an impact across one of the UK's largest financial services organisations? Join Group Finance Risk in a high-profile leadership role where you'll play a key role in the delivery of the Group's SOX programme, influence strategic risk and control decisions, and help transform the Finance control environment through innovation and automation. Working with senior leaders across the Group, you'll strengthen risk and control understanding while helping to redefine the future of SOX assurance. This is a unique opportunity to drive meaningful change, lead at scale, and leave a lasting impact on Finance's risk and control agenda.

Job Description

JOB TITLE: Head of Finance Risk

SALARY: Competitive package

LOCATION: Edinburgh, New Uberior House

ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS: Bristol Harbourside, Halifax Trinity Road

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

Do you want to help shape the future of Finance Risk & Controls? For influential leaders who are passionate about risk management, controls, and inspiring change, this role offers a chance to make a significant impact across the Group! Join Group Finance Risk and play a central leadership role at the heart of Finance. You'll help drive better outcomes across financial reporting, tax, legal and regulatory risk, strengthen controls, and support informed decision-making across Lloyds Banking Group. This is an opportunity to play a key role in the delivery of the Group's SOX programme, influence Finance's risk and control strategy, and drive the transformation of the control environment through greater automation and innovation. You'll work with senior people across the organisation, helping to build a scalable, resilient and future-focused control framework while shaping the next generation of assurance practices!

What you’ll be doing:

• 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.

Why join us?

If you think all banks are the same, you're wrong. We're a pioneering, fast-changing business that's shaping finance as a force for good. If you're after a role where you can have an impact and do the best work of your career, you've just found it.

What we’re looking for:

• 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.

And any experience of these would be really useful:

• Use of AI / automation to improve quality, efficiency and insight in risk management and monitoring activities.

We know that great talent comes from many backgrounds. Whilst this job advert may reference specific years of experience, we recognise that skills are developed in many ways, so if you have relevant, transferable experience, we encourage you to apply.

This is a place for you

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 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 want to ensure all our candidates have the opportunity to shine. Please let us know if there is anything we can do to make the sure the assessment process works for you.

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

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.