Assistant Finance Manager - ftc

JOB TITLE: Assistant Finance Manager - FTC

SALARY: £44,000 - £51,000

LOCATION(S): Edinburgh

HOURS: Full time

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in our Edinburgh office

About this opportunity

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.

This 12 month contract role sits within the Commercial Banking Financial Control and Reporting team within GFS, who are responsible for financial control activity for the Commercial Banking division ("CB") such as income recognition, reconciliation and substantiation of financial data, guardianship of the ledger and ensuring risks are appropriately recorded, escalated and resolved.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and hardworking candidate to support the Finance Manager in leading a Finance team responsible for ensuring the ledger is complete and accurate across the Lending Product areas within the Commercial Banking division. This role involves both preparation and review of month end journals, balance sheet substantiation preparation, regular interaction with Finance Business Partners and, production of management reporting and other financial control processes.

Day to day you'll be;

• Overseeing Finance analysts who post and reconcile the daily balances in the LBG general ledger.
• Supporting the Finance Manager with meeting key deliverables and ensuring the ledger is complete and accurate, reducing key person dependencies as well as driving forward resolution of issues.
• Contributing to Governance, Legal Entity & Risk packs, with a focus on strengthening controls to mitigate risks and reviewing these regularly.
• Collaborating closely with a large number of internal teams including; other GFS teams and the CB Finance business partner teams (based primarily in London and Bristol). In addition there may be a requirement to liaise with Accounting Policy, Divisional Business and Operations teams, Finance Platform colleagues, internal and external auditors when required.
• Proactively identifying improvements to existing processes, systems and procedures, including the running of debrief meetings and driving continuous improvement initiatives.
  

About us

Join us and, as well as making a difference to customers, you'll enjoy a fulfilling career where you're free to be yourself. Great colleagues, transforming workspaces, hybrid working and a wide variety of career opportunities - you'll find them all here.

What you'll need

• Accountancy qualification or part qualification - ICAS (or equivalent), ACCA or CIMA;
• Passion for Financial control and a curious mindset;
• Good analytical skills;
• Good stakeholder management skills
• Confidence to challenge;
• Desire to embrace and emulate LBG's Grow With Purpose ethos
  

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:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 28 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
  

Want to do amazing work, that's interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.