Assistant Management Accountant - Open Account

JOB TITLE: Assistant Management Accountant - FTC

LOCATION(S): Edinburgh

Salary: £42,120 - £46,800

HOURS: Full time

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

About this opportunity

At Lloyds Banking Group, we have a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper and to become the best Financial Services provider for our customers. Through our brands, our Group has a relationship with just about every household and community in the UK. We underpin the lives of millions of individuals and businesses and play a key role in helping to build a growing UK economy. In this role you'll join us in Group Finance Support (GFS), a team of c600 colleagues within the Finance Division, providing centralised support and expertise to the rest of Finance and the Business. This role is a 6-month position, supporting the CB Financial Control team in Group Finance Support responsible for the financial control activity, reconciliation and basis of substantiation of data on a monthly basis.

This role sits within the Financial Control team which is responsible for Ledger Control & Reporting across the commercial finance business areas within Commercial Banking. We're looking for an enthusiastic and hardworking project accountant to help us land system changes for our Open Account platform.

Day to day you'll be;

• Representing the team as an SME on the Open account project to ensure the proposed deliverables are fit for purpose.
• Undertaking any UAT necessary.
• Assess the accounting requirement and treatments for future tactical and strategic work around for new business requirements.
• Implementing the manual process for syndication and dynamic discounting until the automated solution is in place.
• Working with Group Treasury to bring the COF in line with group processes.
• Ensuring balance sheet controls are strong for all Open Account accounts
• Taking ownership for mapping updates to sub ledger tables to ensure data flows correctly into the general ledger.

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

• Part or Fully Qualified Accountant
• Experience of being an SME on finance projects
• Strong background of delivery and driving continuous improvement against a constantly evolving landscape.
• Bring a problem-solving approach with excellent analytical and investigative skills.
• Works collaboratively with a diverse group of stakeholders, utilising well-developed relationship skills.
• Good communicator, excellent organisational ability and able to operate independently or as part of a team.

And any experience of these would be really useful

• Prince or agile qualifications
  

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, and build 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, *Pro-rata to contract duration 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
  

If you're excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We'd love to hear from you.