Responsibilities
- HOURS: Full-time (35 hours per week)
- You’ll join us in the Central Finance Control and Reporting team, a team of c210 colleagues. This role sits within the Retail Financial Control and Reporting team, partnering with Retail Transport, you’ll help maintain a strong control environment that ensures confidence in reporting. You’ll also play an active role in the 7-person Transport team
- This role is a mix of both business partnering and financial accounting. You’ll need to tell the story on the numbers with the wider business while producing key tasks such as SOX controls and annual statutory accounts. It’s a great role which can influence the wider Central Finance team
- Be part of the Retail Transport Reporting & Control, ensuring timely, accurate daily, monthly, and quarterly reporting and strong financial controls
- Support the delivery of key Transport subsidiaries statutory accounts, working closely with Retail partners and external auditors on financial accounting matters
- Help embed robust risk management and maintain a high-quality, ‘no-surprises’ control environment, resolving issues quickly through effective collaboration
- Champion continuous improvement, focusing on data quality and automation
- Help build strong partnerships to deliver accurate, insightful reporting for Group and subsidiary needs
- Support transformation and change initiatives in collaboration with Platform teams
- Help foster a development-focused culture, promoting continuous learning and contributing to wider team growth helping ensure Central Finance is well placed to deliver now and for the future
Benefits
- A generous holiday allowance: You’ll be eligible for a minimum of 22 days holiday (excluding bank holidays), rising to 30 days based on length of service and grade.
- A flexible way of working: Whether you want flexibility over your location or when you log on, together we can create an approach that works for you and for the business.
- Family leave: Up to 63 weeks of maternity or adoption leave. Statutory maternity or adoption pay is available for 39 weeks, and 20 weeks will be enhanced to the equivalent of full pay. Partners can have six weeks of fully paid paternity leave.
- Flex cash: This is 4% of your basic salary and can be used to spend on the benefits of your choice, or you can choose to take it as a cash top up in your monthly salary.
- Health insurance: Our company funded Private Medical Benefit provides all colleagues with access to good quality medical care, including accommodation, nursing care and specialist advice.
- Colleague Offers: Get discounts on everything from electrical items to cinema tickets and weekly food shopping. You can share this benefit with up to ten family members or friends.
- Financial products: Take advantage of our great financial products, some at a discounted rate, including current accounts, home and car insurance and loans.
- Share plans: Participate in Sharematch and receive matching shares of up to £45 a month from the company, and you can choose to participate in Sharesave, our combined savings and share option plan.
- Pension: We offer a generous pension plan, with all joiners being automatically enrolled in our ‘Your Tomorrow’ scheme. You can decide how much you save and get a say in where your contributions are invested.
Qualifications
Looking to achieve a professional finance qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) and/ or have experience in both financial control and statutory reportingPassion for financial control and statutory reporting with drive, energy and a growth mindset, leading by example demonstrating our values and behavioursKnowledge and experience of Group reporting & control systems or other external financial software; together with an understanding of latest key (IFRS) accounting standardsExperience in Power app suite and/or automation tools would desireable but not absolutely essentialGood communicator, able to influence and articulate complex issues at all levels, building strong collaborative diverse working relationships across different parts of the GroupSupporting the delivery of statutory accounts including understanding of Legal EntitiesExperience in financial control and risk reporting. For internal candidates this would include LBG RSCA and SOX framework; with an awareness of the key risks facing LBG FinanceStrategic problem solver, with a passion for creating and driving future transformation and continuous improvement within Finance
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