Overview
The position supports 2 of our Business & Commercial Banking platforms: 1) Business Transaction Banking, responsible for meeting the needs of our clients in respect of Cash Management, Payments & Merchant Services, facilitating the running of their business for firms of all sizes; 2) Lending & Working Capital, driving transformations & digital change supporting over 1 million businesses with the financing and working capital needed to grow, enabling a digitally led relationship with clients. The combined cost budget across Investment and BAU spend is c£150m. This is a rare opportunity for a finance business partner to work at the centre of two high‑profile Business & Commercial Banking platforms that are critical to the Commercial strategy. You’ll support Business Transaction Banking and Lending & Working Capital, shaping financial outcomes across services that enable over 1 million businesses to operate, grow and invest. With a c.£150m Investment and BAU cost base, you’ll influence how funding is spent, how investment benefits are measured, and how both platforms drive efficiency through technology, workforce planning and new ways of working. It’s a visible, strategic role offering real influence, scale and exposure to major transformation.
Responsibilities
- Helping the Platforms to plan successfully and contributing to the setting of direction and goals.
- Sharing Management information with senior stakeholders, ensuring that results and issues are clearly explained and well understood and that follow‑up actions are clear.
- Supporting and challenging the business, creating well‑understood forecasts along with a summary of financial risks and opportunities.
- Providing commercial and decision support on key projects and contractual commitments, acting as a trusted advisor.
- Playing an active role in engaging with the Centre of Excellence, enhancing the flow of communication and the standards of inputs/outputs.
- Embedding the Group’s culture and vision through visible leadership, being a role model for the Group’s leadership behaviours.
- Supporting the Head of Finance in building and maintaining a talented team, ensuring colleagues are developed effectively.
Why join us?
We’re transforming at pace. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to change the way we meet the needs of our 28 million customers. We’re growing, and we’d love you to be part of the journey.
Qualifications
- At least three years of prior Finance Business Partnering experience, influencing and driving improvement in Business results.
- Proven ability to interact with stakeholders at all levels across Finance and Business teams.
- Proficient communication skills:
- Listening, joining the dots and summarising the story (across Investment and BAU costs and the resulting financial benefits)
- Challenging constructively to support better quality outputs and outcomes (e.g. through finding better ways to communicate financial information)
- Experience in supporting Change / Transformation including the impact of different technologies on financial statements would be valuable.
We know that great talent comes from many backgrounds. Whilst this job advert may reference specific years of experience, we recognise that skills are developed in many ways, so if you have relevant, transferable experience, we encourage you to apply.
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.
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 want to ensure all our candidates have the opportunity to shine. Please let us know if there is anything we can do to make the assessment process work for you. 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.
Benefits
- 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.
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