Job Title: Assurance Manager - Finance Chief Control Office
Location: Bristol
Salary: £62,874 - £69,860
Hours: Full time
Working Pattern: Hybrid, 40% (or two days a week) in either our Bristol or Edinburgh office.
End Date: Thursday 19 September 2024
About this opportunity
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the newly formed Finance Chief Control Office within Group Finance Risk. We're a team of around 50 colleagues within Central Finance who provide guidance to our finance teams in the application of the Group Risk Management Framework. We're also responsible for providing Assurance over Group wide Financial Reporting processes.
We're on an exciting journey and there couldn’t be a better time to join us. We're putting in place a fresh operating model for non-financial risk management across the Group, empowering our people to take end-to-end accountability for handling the risks they face. We're building a team where our colleagues are valued and supported to become experts in what they do and grow their careers. We want colleagues to feel connected to our Group strategy and understand how their role fits into it supporting Finance deliver its objectives for Non-Financial risk safely.
The role provides a perfect opportunity to use your expertise and natural desire for change to help evolve our approach to assurance, including the use of digital tools to support the delivery of our SOX testing.
Being able to respond to internal and external change will also be a key element of the role and will position us well to influence the ongoing (Group Strategic) Finance Transformation programme.
As a Manager within the Control office, you'll help support our aim to strengthen our wider financial control environment and also provide support on risk and control matters across the end-to-end business processes including Finance.
What you'll do in this role:
What You'll need:
We’re looking for a risk professional, ideally with a qualification and experience in a related field (audit, risk management, accounting) or, alternatively, having gained expertise through experience in a related function along with:
And any experience in these areas would be really useful:
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-ranging benefits package, which includes:
If you’re excited by the thought of becoming part of our Group Finance Risk team, get in touch. We’d love to hear from you.
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.