Finance Change Manager

End Date

Wednesday 26 February 2025

Salary Range

£70,929 - £78,810

We support flexible working – click here for more information on flexible working options

Flexible Working Options

Hybrid Working, Job Share

Job Description Summary

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Job Description

JOB TITLE: Finance Change Manager

SALARY: £68,202 - £75,780

HOURS: Full time

LOCATION(S): Leeds

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

We’re recruiting for a Finance Change Manager to join us in Leeds as we transform how we deliver change, both in terms of the scale of ambition and the pace of delivery.

To grow our capabilities, we need a skilled Finance Change Manager who will be responsible for leading and managing both large and small change initiatives within Treasury and Commercial Banking Finance. The chosen candidate will represent Finance, addressing their needs in various change initiatives, analysing to speed up change and ensuring valuable solutions.

Key responsibilities:

• Develop into a trusted advisor and advocate for Treasury and Commercial Banking Finance in relation to change impacting the Markets, Finance and Risk architecture

• Representing Treasury and Commercial Banking Finance in a variety of forums and product backlog discussions, simplifying complexity and ambiguity into tangible actions

• Role model Agile behaviours within the team and Treasury and Commercial Banking Finance more widely

• Collaborate to deliver optimum outcomes for Treasury and Commercial Banking Finance with a wide range of partners across the bank, including multiple functions and levels of seniority, while appreciating the wider strategic priorities of the bank

• Maintain and enhance Treasury, Finance, Change, Systems and Industry knowledge through constant in role learning

• Independently run ad-hoc analysis to support change initiatives for Treasury and Commercial Banking Finance, with support and guidance provided where required

• Testing of prototyped solutions to ensure they meet the needs of the business while maintaining a focus on generating value for the business early.

About us

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.

What you’ll need

• Strong understanding of IFRS accounting treatment of financial instruments under Amortised Cost, Fair Value Through Other Comprehensive Income & Fair Value Through Profit or Loss classifications

• Understanding of the purpose and roles of different finance teams including Product Control, Financial Control, Ledger Control, Hedge Accounting and Independent Price Verification

• Knowledge of front to back Treasury execution, the interactions between different areas of Treasury and their support functions

• Good understanding of business drivers for Treasury from a Capital, Funding and Risk Management perspective

• Awareness of the regulatory regimes by which banks are governed and appropriate risk tolerances of regulated entities

• The ability to collaborate with a wide range of partners, often with competing priorities, influencing and advocating to acquire the right outcome for the bank as a whole

• A determined individual who is committed to driving through positive change as an individual and team

• We’re particularly interested to hear from individuals who have experience in Hedge Accounting, Product Control and Financial Control

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 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

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

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.