IP&I Platform Senior Finance Business Partner

Lloyds Banking Group; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services provider based in Edinburgh is looking for a Senior Finance Business Partner to maximize value from their Insurance, Pensions & Investments platforms. This role involves finance support, team leadership, and strategic contribution. Candidates need to be qualified accountants with experience in Finance Business Partnering, strong stakeholder interaction skills, and a focus on driving improvement. The job offers a hybrid working model and competitive salary package.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution of up to 15%

Annual bonus subject to Group performance

Share schemes including free shares

30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays

Variety of wellbeing initiatives and parental leave policies

Qualifications

• Prior experience of Finance Business Partnering, influencing and driving improvement in Business results.
• Ability to interact with stakeholders at all levels across Finance and Business teams.
• Experience of supporting Change / Transformation, including the impact of technologies on financial statements.

Responsibilities

• Helping the Platforms to plan successfully and contributing to setting direction and goals.
• Providing commercial and decision support on key projects and contractual commitments.
• Supporting the Head of Finance in building and maintaining a high-performing team.

Skills

Qualified Accountant

Finance Business Partnering

Stakeholder Interaction

Challenging for Improvement

Job description

Overview

End date Thursday 09 May 2024

Salary range
£80,206 - £94,360

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Agile Working Options
Job Share; Hybrid Working

Job details

JOB TITLE: IP&I Platform Senior Finance Business Partner

LOCATION(S): Edinburgh, Bristol or London

HOURS: Full time

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days a week) in either our Edinburgh, Bristol or London office.

About this opportunity

We have an exciting opportunity for a senior Finance Business Partner to join the Insurance, Pensions & Investments (IP&I) Platform finance business partnering team!

At Lloyds Banking Group, we’re undertaking the UK’s largest financial services transformation, investing to Grow, Focus and Change our business. Our Platforms teams, which bring together our business and technology teams, play a key role in delivering our strategy and how we invest in our business. This role will work with our IP&I Platforms and business management teams, providing finance business partner support on all aspects of their investment costs and benefits.

Within Group Investment & Cost Partnering, this role is responsible for maximising value from the Insurance, Pensions & Investments platforms as they drive the strategic change of business unit. The role includes responsibilities across investment costs and benefits and includes day to day management of a small team. This is a leadership role and the successful candidate will be expected to contribute beyond their immediate areas of responsibility as well as being an exemplar of the behaviours which will drive our Grow with Purpose cultural shift.

What you'll be doing

• Helping the Platforms to plan successfully and contributing to the setting of direction and goals
• Sharing Management information with senior partners, ensuring that results and issues are clearly explained and well understood and that follow up actions are clear
• Supporting and challenging the business, crafting well-understood forecasts along with a summary of financial risks and opportunities
• Providing commercial and decision support on key projects and contractual commitments, acting as a trusted advisor
• Playing an active role in engaging with the Centres of Excellence, improving the flow of communication and the standards of inputs/outputs
• Embedding the Group’s culture and vision through visible leadership, being a role model for the Group’s leadership behaviours
• Supporting the Head of Finance in building and maintaining a hard-working team, ensuring colleagues are developed effectively, utilising the groups Your Best principles
• Participating and making an impactful contribution to the development and objectives of the wider platform business partnering team

About us

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.

What we need from you

• You'll need to be a qualified Accountant.
• Prior experience of Finance Business Partnering, influencing and driving improvement in Business results
• Ability to interact with stakeholders at all levels across Finance and Business teams
• Listening, joining the dots and summarising the story (across Investment costs and the resulting financial benefits)
• Challenging constructively to support better quality outputs and outcomes (e.g. through finding better ways to communicate financial information)
• Experience of supporting Change / Transformation including the impact of different technologies on financial statements would be valuable

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we\'re inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.

We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.

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.

And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.

We’re disability confident. So, if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

Benefits

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance
• 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

Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.