Finance Business Partner (12 month FTC)

Description

JOB TITLE: Finance Business Partner - Lending & Working Capital (12 month FTC)

SALARY: £67,000 - £74,400

LOCATION: Bristol or Edinburgh

HOURS: 35 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

This is an exciting opportunity to bring your experience to a finance business partner role to support and drive forward Business & Commercial Banking (BCB) and Corporate and Institutional Banking (CIB) business.

BCB serves the financial needs of small and medium sized businesses and CIB serves the needs of large clients who have a strong link to the UK, both driven by the Groups purpose of Helping Britain Proposer and ensuring Sustainability and Strategic objectives are delivered.

The CB portfolio Business partnering team sits within the wider CB Finance Business partnering community of c.40 Finance Business partners.

What will I be doing?

The role will partner stakeholders across the BCB & CIB business and finance, providing financial support to business supporting Products, Segments, Investment and Portfolio management, working within a large and diverse business partnering community, supported by a senior manager.

Day to day you’ll

• Build trusted relationships across business and finance

• Build and lead regular and ad hoc financial performance updates, interpreting financials and challenging the business

• Support the business in making strategic decisions around pricing, proposition and Investment

• Learn in depth about the products we offer across BCB & CIB, needing to show curiosity to understand performance and build new analysis to help drive this forward

• Forecasting and Planning to help set the direction of the business providing challenge to ensure we meet our financial commitments

• Collaborate with the wider FBP community to support the BCB Growth Forum and CIB Finance Resource Meeting

• Build an in depth knowledge on how a bank makes money, including Income, Costs, Capital and Funding & liquidity providing expert advice to the business

Why Lloyds Banking Group

From building a truly sustainable business to creating a place where people love to work, we need colleagues who are up for the challenge of our bold ambitions. Who are excited to push boundaries and make change happen. Together, we can grow with purpose.

What you’ll need

• Proactivity to interpret performance and clearly communicate key stories and messages to the business

• A curiosity to learn about the business, performance and our processes to deliver insight, control and courage to challenge

• An ability to build trusted relationships with a variety of people and teams and work with those teams to support our purpose and goals

• A desire to improve the way we do things

• Growth mindset looking at consistently improving the way we operate and the value we add

• Experience of working within a similar team or business area is desirable, and a finance qualification

About working for us

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

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create amenopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer Initiative.

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

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

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

• 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.

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.