Senior Manager, Operations Financial Control

Lloyds Banking Group; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK financial institution located in Edinburgh is seeking a manager to lead a team focused on cash and stock reconciliations. The successful candidate will ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, provide governance insights, and develop team capabilities. Strong leadership and communication skills, along with a deep knowledge of financial markets, are essential. This position offers hybrid working arrangements, competitive benefits, and a chance to contribute to a purpose-driven organization.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution

Annual bonus opportunity

Share schemes including free shares

30 days of holiday

Wellbeing initiatives

Qualifications

• Deep knowledge of markets products and operational risk.
• Ability to turn complex requirements into actionable plans.
• Strong track record in dynamic Financial Markets environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead and empower a team to manage cash and stock reconciliations.
• Provide governance insights and performance oversight.
• Ensure quality control over financial transactions and compliance.

Skills

Team leadership

Communication

Operational risk knowledge

Regulatory compliance

Relationship building

Job description

Job Description

End Date Wednesday 04 February 2026

Salary Range £0 - £0

Flexible Working Options Hybrid Working, Job Share

Location Edinburgh

Hours Full time

Working Pattern Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of your time, in the office.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Lead and empower a team of specialists to proactively manage exceptions from cash, stock and finance reconciliations across LBCM, the CIB Ringfenced Bank and GCT, ensuring timely and risk‑aligned resolution.

• Represent Markets Operations at governance forums, providing insight‑rich data and analysis to support performance oversight, strengthen risk appetite awareness, and inform decision‑making.

• Provide quality control over financial transactions contributing to regulatory returns, statutory audit support and SOX reporting, ensuring accuracy, completeness and compliance.

• Build strong, influential relationships across Operations, Finance, GCOO Group Reconciliations, SOX and external audit partners - acting as the primary representative for Markets Operations.

• Maintain a forward-looking view of industry change, Group strategy and external regulatory developments to understand how these trends influence the future operating and control framework.

• Develop, coach and motivate your team, ensuring high-quality delivery, strong succession pipelines and a positive, performance-led team culture.

• Manage team resources effectively, balancing headcount, priorities and project roadmaps to support optimal service delivery and future planning.

• Champion innovation, driving new processing models, scalable digital enhancements and improved risk‑mitigation approaches that keep pace with a fast‑evolving regulatory and technology environment.

What You’ll Need

• Deep knowledge of markets products, end-to-end systems and operational risk, enabling robust oversight of complex middle‑office, settlements and transaction reporting processes.

• A proven ability to turn complex business and regulatory requirements into clear, actionable delivery plans that land effectively with senior stakeholders.

• A strong track record of delivery in complex, multi-dimensional, fast‑moving Financial and Capital Markets environments.

• Excellent communication and influencing skills, with the ability to collaborate across teams, hierarchies and specialist areas.

• In‑depth understanding of global regulatory, statutory and audit requirements.

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 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!

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.