Finance Assistant Manager - Intercompany

JOB TITLE: Finance Assistant Manager - Intercompany

SALARY: £42,120 - £46,800

LOCATION: Edinburgh

HOURS: Full-time

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

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're inspired by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper and to become the best bank for our customers. What we do makes a genuine difference to families, businesses and communities, and we’re playing a central role in crafting a growing UK economy.

Finance is key to that success by securing and building the financial strength and performance of the Bank. In Group Finance Support (GFS) we're key to delivering that strength though co-ordination, production, analysis and assurance of statutory returns and disclosures for the group.

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced, highly motivated individual to join our Intercompany Team within Group Reporting & Ledger Control which is part of GFS.

The Intercompany team are responsible for the control, reporting and governance of Intercompany activities to deliver assurance on the underlying financial information and confirm internal and external balances are reported accurately.

Intercompany Posting, Reconciliation, Settlement and Matching are key Financial Controls in ensuring the completeness of our External Legal Entity Financial Reporting

What are the key responsibilities of the role?

• Reconciliation and detailed analysis of Intercompany balances to ensure that the Group Intercompany positions are recorded accurately within the ledgers.

• Investigation of any significant mismatches.

• Driving the resolution of Intercompany differences between counterparties to ensure these are cleared to below group materiality within the timescales set out by the Group timetable.

• Working collaboratively with multiple teams across Finance to deliver the month end process for Intercompany.

• Preparation of Intercompany enrichment for Quarterly reporting

• Undertaking reporting & analysis for Customer and Audit queries

• Support the provision of quality and timely information and analysis to advise business decisions

About us

If you think all banks are the same, you’d be wrong. We’re an innovative, fast-changing business that’s shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that’s empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose.

What you’ll need

• You'll be a dedicated finance professional with a proven track record of excellence, preferably within the financial services sector.

• Ideally, you'll be studying towards a professional finance qualification or newly qualified and be a confident verbal communicator with an ability to influence at all levels.

• Strong analytical skills and a drive to contribute to the success of the business are critical.

• Can positively influence others by demonstrating core Lloyds Banking Group values and behaviours

• Can demonstrate collaboration and teamwork across the team to help optimise business results

• Can speak up, challenge and act to help deliver continuous improvement in behaviours and processes

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:

• 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

• 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.