Finance Assistant Manager (12 month FTC) - Retail Transport Financial Reporting & Control

End Date

Wednesday 15 July 2026

Salary Range

£44,901 - £49,890

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Flexible Working Options

Hybrid Working

Job Description Summary

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Job Description

JOB TITLE: Finance Assistant Manager - Retail Transport Financial Reporting & Control

SALARY: £44,900 - £49,800

LOCATION: Bristol

HOURS: Full-time (35 hours per week)

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

You'll join us in the Central Finance Control and Reporting team, a team of c210 colleagues. This role sits within the Retail Financial Control and Reporting team, partnering with Retail Transport, you'll help maintain a strong control environment that ensures confidence in reporting. You'll also play an active role in the 7-person Transport team.

This role is a mix of both business partnering and financial accounting. You'll need to tell the story on the numbers with the wider business while producing key tasks such as SOX controls and annual statutory accounts. It's a great role which can influence the wider Central Finance team.

Day to day responsibilities

Your role will be varied, and no two days will look quite the same; some of your key priorities include:

• Be part of the Retail Transport Reporting & Control, ensuring timely, accurate daily, monthly, and quarterly reporting and strong financial controls.

• Support the delivery of key Transport subsidiaries statutory accounts, working closely with Retail partners and external auditors on financial accounting matters.

• Help embed robust risk management and maintain a high-quality, ‘no-surprises’ control environment, resolving issues quickly through effective collaboration.

• Champion continuous improvement, focusing on data quality and automation.

• Help build strong partnerships to deliver accurate, insightful reporting for Group and subsidiary needs.

• Support transformation and change initiatives in collaboration with Platform teams.

• Help foster a development-focused culture, promoting continuous learning and contributing to wider team growth helping ensure Central Finance is well placed to deliver now and for the future.

What you’ll need
Education:

• Looking to achieve a professional finance qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) and/ or have experience in both financial control and statutory reporting.

Technical skills & experience:

• Knowledge and experience of Group reporting & control systems or other external financial software; together with an understanding of latest key (IFRS) accounting standards.

• Supporting the delivery of statutory accounts including understanding of Legal Entities.

• Experience in financial control and risk reporting. For internal candidates this would include LBG RSCA and SOX framework; with an awareness of the key risks facing LBG Finance.

• Experience in Power app suite and/or automation tools would desireable but not absolutely essential

Behavioural skills:

• Passion for financial control and statutory reporting with drive, energy and a growth mindset, leading by example demonstrating our values and behaviours.

• Good communicator, able to influence and articulate complex issues at all levels, building strong collaborative diverse working relationships across different parts of the Group.

• Strategic problem solver, with a passion for creating and driving future transformation and continuous improvement within Finance.

About working for us

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

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.

We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.

We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.

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.