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Assistant Manager Financial Control & Reporting 12 month FTC

Job details
Posting date: 29 August 2025
Salary: £43,803 to £48,670 per year
Additional salary information: 15% pension, bonus
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 05 September 2025
Location: Halifax, West Yorkshire, HA2 2WS
Company: Lloyds Banking Group
Job type: Temporary
Job reference: 141808_1756480564

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Summary

JOB TITLE: Assistant Manager - Retail Financial Control and Reporting (12 FTC/Secondment)

SALARY: The salary banding for this role is £43,803 - £48,670

LOCATION: Halifax or Leeds

HOURS: 35 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

You'll join us in Group Finance Support (GFS), a team of c350 colleagues within the Finance Division, providing centralised support and expertise to the rest of Finance and the Business.

This role sits within the Retail & Insurance Financial Control & Reporting team in GFS, who are responsible for the financial control and reporting of subsidiary legal entities within Lloyds Banking Group. Within this team we are largely responsible for Consumer Relationship products including Savings, Current Accounts and Private Banking products.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated and hardworking finance professional to support financial control and reporting activities for the monthly management and statutory reporting of Retail products, positively challenging current processes and encouraging a growth mindset across the team.

What will I be doing?

  • Preparing a large number and wide range of manual Retail product journals to support the Retail monthly financial reporting;

  • Providing support to team managers, specifically when organising and planning Month end deliverables;

  • The candidate requires strong excel skills and continuous improvement mindset;

  • Proactively identifying improvements to existing processes, systems and procedures, including taking the responsibility for the running of debrief meetings and supporting continuous improvement initiatives;

  • Supporting the wider team to perform the month end process, including the monthly balance sheet reconciliation and substantiation process, including ARC certification and supporting the assurance of the ledger at month end;

  • Supporting resolution of control issues or balance sheet breaks;

  • Ensuring that a legal entity lens is applied to financial control activity;

  • Collaborating closely with a large number of internal teams including stakeholders in Retail Finance, other GFS teams, external auditors and other third parties; and

  • Developing personal capabilities using existing formal and informal training opportunities.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

From building a truly sustainable business to creating a place where people love to work, we need colleagues who are up for the challenge of our bold ambitions. Who are excited to push boundaries and make change happen. Together, we can grow with purpose.

What you'll need

  • Accountancy qualification/part qualified accountant or qualified by experience;

  • Strong excel skills with experience of Financial systems and a curious mindset that will drive process improvements;

  • Passion for Financial control;

  • Team collaborator with strong stakeholder management;

  • Risk and control understanding, including LBG RSCA and SOX framework knowledge advantageous;

  • Desire to consistently improve the control environment through use of automation and AI tools.

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 underrepresented 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 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

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

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

Disability Confident
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.

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