Group Finance Support – Head of Accounting Operations Control & Reporting

JOB TITLE: 128385 Group Finance Support – Head of Accounting Operations Control & Reporting

SALARY: £114,810 - £148,500

LOCATION(S): Bristol or Edinburgh

HOURS: Full time
WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in the Bristol office or Edinburgh Office
 

About this opportunity

This exciting role offers the opportunity to lead, build and motivate a team of circa 90 finance professionals, in the Accounting Operations Control & Reporting Team, partnering with wider business and other parts of Finance to deliver a robust control environment. In this role you’ll be responsible for driving an environment of curiosity, continuous improvement and automation initiatives to enhance efficiency and effectiveness within Accounting Operations.

In this role you’ll join us Group Finance Support (part of Group Finance Support & Finance Data & Analytics Office), a key function within the Finance community of LBG.
The team is at the start of a significant Transformation journey, and you will be part of influencing, designing and implementing Finance Transformation over the next 5 years, both within Group Finance Support and beyond!
 

Day to day you’ll be;

• Overseeing and leading the day-to-day operations to ensuring accuracy, timeliness and compliance with internal SLAs and regulatory requirements,
• Leading the team to build and maintain accounting policies and procedures to ensure the integrity of operations and compliance with relevant accounting, regulatory and internal requirements.
• Responsible for ensuring robust risk management processes, including SOX and RCSA, are embedded within the team, and provide a ‘no-surprises’, high quality Financial Control environment. This includes appropriate monitoring of compliance.
• Building out a reporting framework to enhance oversight and issue identification.
• Coordinating the daily, monthly and annual processes and associated reconciliations and analysis and ensure balances are substantiated to appropriate standards
• Ensure compliance with the relevant consumer codes of practice such as PPP, continually driving better results.
• Drive and positively influence key GFS partners including Divisional Finance Directors, Risk Partners, our external auditors and external suppliers

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

• A qualified accountant with significant PQE preferably in the financial services industry
• Experienced leader with drive, energy and a growth mindset, who leads by example and has led a large team
• Proficient in P2P, AR, reconciliation and controls processes and tools; combined with team leadership experience in this area
• Ability to attract, inspire and lead a successful, diverse professional team actively managing performance to realise potential and retain talent.
• Strategic thinker, with a passion for creating and driving future transformation and continuous improvement within Finance teams
• Strong Risk and Control understanding, including LBG RSCA and SOX framework; with an awareness of the key risks facing LBG Finance
• Prior experience of leading through system, process or cultural change
• Excellent communicator, able to influence and articulate complex issues at all levels across LBG, building strong diverse working relationships across different parts of the Group.
   

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, 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
• 30 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.