Finance Change Manager

Lloyds Banking Group; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 73,000

Job description

End Date

Thursday 03 April 2025

Salary Range

£65,385 - £72,650

Flexible Working Options

Hybrid Working, Job Share

Job Description Summary

JOB TITLE: Finance Change Manager

SALARY: £65,385 - £72,650

HOURS: Full time

LOCATION(S): Leeds, Halifax, Cardiff and Newport

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

Are you eager to be part of a dynamic team, driving high profile change in Retail Finance? Do you desire to harness and grow your skills and capabilities in Change Management? If so, we want you in our team!

The Retail Finance Change team are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Finance Change Manager to join us. As a Finance Change Manager, you will play a crucial role in leading the delivery of change initiatives impacting Retail Finance. You will work collaboratively cross function to manage risk and implications related to Finance Systems, Data, and processes effectively.

Day to day you will:

1. Lead Change Delivery: Lead the delivery of multiple change initiatives, understanding the impact across data, people & processes, and managing seamless integration into Retail Finance.
2. Dependency Management: Identify, assess, and effectively manage risks and dependencies to ensure successful outcomes.
3. Change Expertise: Provide change expertise and support to the wider Retail Finance community, advocating for agile change practices across the team.
4. Develop Relationships: Build and maintain strong and effective working relationships with key collaborators across Retail Finance, and other business areas to support the effective delivery of change initiatives.
5. Support team activities: Contribute to development, learning and process improvement within the team, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
6. Invest in Personal Growth: Actively respond to individual and team objectives, by enhancing personal performance and growing your skills and capabilities.

What you’ll need

1. Proven experience in delivering change, preferably in a financial environment.
2. Strong stakeholder management skills, to build and sustain long-term relationships.
3. Strong communication skills.
4. Ability to resolve conflict, build consensus and influence positive outcomes.
5. Ability to coordinate across multiple teams to develop roadmaps that help the team achieve its priorities and fulfil its business plans.
6. Strong problem-solving skills, using experience to address critical risks/issues/dependencies as they arise and ensuring resolution within agreed timescales.
7. Demonstrate the right values and behaviours and encouraging this in team members.

Experience of the following will also be useful to the role:

1. A strong Finance background, with solid understanding of Finance Systems and processes.
2. An understanding of Retail products.
3. Experience of Agile tools and methodologies.
4. Line management experience.

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’re committed to creating a consciously inclusive workplace where our colleagues can be themselves, thrive and perform at their best.

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.

As an inclusive employer, we offer Workplace Adjustments for colleagues with a disability (which may include long-term health and neurodivergent conditions) where it is reasonable to do so. This could include flexibility with regards to office attendance, location, and working pattern.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. If you have a disability, you can also apply via our Disability Confident Scheme (DCS). Through the DCS, we guarantee to interview a fair and proportionate number of applicants with a disability, whose application meets the minimum criteria for the advertised job role.

We also provide adjustments that are reasonable throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers for applicants with a disability, long-term health condition or neurodivergent condition. If you’d like an adjustment to the recruitment process just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

1. A generous pension contribution of up to 15%.
2. An annual performance-related bonus.
3. Share schemes including free shares.
4. Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping.
5. 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top.
6. A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies.

If you’re excited by the thought of becoming part of our 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.