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Job title: Product Control Manager: Finance - Commercial Banking

Location: Edinburgh Princes Exchange

Hours: Full time 35 hours per week

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

Lloyds Banking Group is the UK’s largest Digital, Retail and Commercial Bank with a focus on Helping Britain Prosper. Our Finance teams sit at the heart of the organisation. Group Finance Support (GFS) is a team of c600 colleagues within the Finance Division (c2600) with responsibility for the core platforms, processes, financial reporting and controls for Finance.

The role sits within the Product Control team; a control function responsible to produce the daily/weekly P&L across the suite of Commercial Banking and Treasury products.

Product Control is an agile and encouraging team with a desire to foster all its peoples development goals, via learning opportunities, knowledge sharing and cross training! You're expected to work effectively as part of the wider team, helping even out workload, collaborating to solve problems and sharing knowledge. There are always new issues to investigate and resolve, starting every single day with a desire to learn and improve is critical for success in this role.

We’re looking for a team player who is enthusiastic, keen to learn with an interest in financial markets and current affairs.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you.

Day to day you’ll be involved in:

• Managing a small team delivering daily P&L production, reconciliations, signoffs and issue resolution.

• Supporting the month end close processes associated with accurately reporting and independently validating the bank’s balance sheet in a timely manner through the posting of journals and preparation of reconciliations.

• Preparation of analysis and in-depth commentary on P&L and balance sheet movements.

• Supporting a robust control framework for all processes within remit.

• Undertaking ad hoc work and investigation arising from partner requests.

• Supporting delivery of efficiencies and a culture of continuous improvement.

• Establishing and building relationships with partners.

• Conducting regular check-ins with team members, update objectives, set development goals and 90-day plans. Provide coaching and support to enhance team performance.

What you’ll need:

• Qualified or part qualified accountant with significant relevant experience.

• Experience of working in Product/Financial Control or Audit as a manager.

• Knowledge of Financial Instruments.

• Experience leading a team, managing team performance and coaching.

• Relationship building and Stakeholder management.

• Numerate and competent with MS Office applications especially Excel.

And any experience of these would be really useful:

SQL and Macros

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 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

Ready to start growing with purpose? Apply today.

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.

About Us

With 320 years under our belt, we're used to change, and today is no different. Join us and help drive this change, shaping the future of finance whilst working at pace to deliver for our customers.

Here, you'll do the best work of your career. Your impact will be amplified by our scale as you learn and develop, gaining skills for the future.

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