Statistical Reporting - Finance Analyst

Lloyds Banking Group; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A major financial services group in Edinburgh is seeking a Finance Analyst to oversee statistical reporting for regulators. You will be responsible for delivering high-quality regulatory returns, supporting a robust control framework, and driving continuous improvement within the team. Ideal candidates should possess strong excel skills, collaboration abilities, and a growth mindset. This position offers a diverse range of benefits, fostering an inclusive and supportive work environment.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution of up to 15%

Annual performance-related bonus

Share schemes including free shares

Adaptable lifestyle benefits

24 days' holiday plus bank holidays

Wellbeing initiatives and parental leave policies

Qualifications

• Demonstrates a growth mindset with a proactive approach.
• Excellent organisational skills to prioritise effectively.
• Experience in data manipulation using Excel.
• Ability to work collaboratively for team success.
• Influences positively by demonstrating core values.

Responsibilities

• Ensure regulatory returns are delivered timely and accurately.
• Support robust control frameworks for financial processes.
• Drive efficiencies and a culture of continuous improvement.
• Assist in implementing regulatory changes for reports.
• Manage relationships with key internal partners.

Skills

Curiosity and proactive learning

Great organisational skills

Excel data manipulation

Team collaboration

Influencing skills

Identifying process improvements

Operational risk minimisation

Quality and timely analysis provision

Continuous improvement advocacy

Tools

Power BI

Job description

The Statistical Reporting team within Group Finance Support has responsibility for statistical reporting to the regulators. This includes:

• Bank of England Statistical Reporting for Lloyds, BOS & LBCM, HBOS & LBG.
• FCA/PRA returns for BOS and Lloyds.
• Retail Mortgage returns to UK Finance for BOS, Lloyds, TMB & LBG.

As a Finance Analyst your responsibilities will include:

• Working with the team to ensure regulatory returns are delivered to a high standard in a time-pressured environment over month end / quarter end.
• Supporting a robust control framework for all processes within remit.
• Proactively supporting delivery of efficiencies and culture of continuous improvement.
• Assist with the implementation of regulatory changes to reporting.
• Effectively handle relationships with key internal partners.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

Like the modern Britain we serve, we're evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We're growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too…

What you'll need

• Demonstrates a growth mindset, driven by curiosity and a proactive approach to personal learning and development.
• Great organisational skills to enable you to prioritise work effectively.
• Experience in excel spreadsheets and data manipulation.
• The ability to work collaboratively with the team to deliver their best.
• Finance Team Accountabilities
• The ability to positively influence others by demonstrating core Lloyds Banking Group values and behaviours.
• To contribute to identifying and suggesting improvements to simplify processes and ways of working helping to deliver business efficiencies.
• To support the minimisation of operational risks.
• To support the provision of quality and timely information and analysis to inform business decisions.
• Demonstrate collaboration and teamwork across the team to help optimise business results.
• Speak up, challenge and act to help deliver continuous improvement in behaviours and processes.

And any experience of these would be really useful

• Proficient in Power BI Desktop, Power BI Service, and Power BI Pro, with hands‑on experience in creating interactive visualisations and dashboards.

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.

We also offer a wide‑rangeing 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
• 24 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?

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