GFS Retail Transport Control & Reporting Assistant Manager

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End Date

Thursday 02 October 2025

Salary Range

£43,803 - £48,670

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

Flexible Working Options

Flexibility in when hours are worked, Hybrid Working, Job Share

Job Description Summary

You'll join us in Group Finance Support (GFS), a team of c350 colleagues within the Finance Division, providing centralised support and expertise to the rest of Finance and the Business.

This exciting Fixed Term Contract role offers the opportunity to join the GFS Retail Financial Control & Reporting team, partnering with Retail Transport to deliver a robust control environment which gives confidence in reporting to your customers.

We’re looking for an enthusiastic and hardworking person to support our team, positively challenging current processes and encouraging a growth mindset across the team.

Job Description

Key Details

JOB TITLE: Assistant Manager, Retail Transport Financial Reporting and Control - Fixed Term Contract until November 2026

SALARY : as per pay range

LOCATION(S): Bristol Harbourside

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

About this Opportunity

Are you enthusiastic to make a significant impact and drive positive change in our Retail Financial Control & Reporting team?

We’re looking for a positive and hardworking person to support our Transport team of c18 colleagues. The role involves daily financial control activity, month end controls, and supporting change initiatives.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

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.

Day to day responsibilities

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

Active involvement in financial control activity to support Retail Entity and Group Reporting: Taking ownership of tasks and deliverables to support timely and controlled Month End close activity. Demonstrate diligence in preparation and review of work, not being afraid to challenge or question inputs or outputs.

Delivery at Pace: Implementing processes that break down work to deliver value more quickly and frequently. Embracing a problem-solving mindset with the curiosity to explore and challenge existing processes.

Innovation: Challenge the status quo to improve the way we do things. Embrace culture of continuous learning. Find opportunities for innovation and technology to improve processes utilising experience in using new technologies; discovering how time can be reinvested in benefiting from change. Ability to advocate and bring new ideas within a diverse team.

Governance and Risk: Prompt escalation of risks and issues providing support to manager to mitigate the impacts of risks. Demonstrate resilience and take ownership and accountability when issues occur. Challenge what and why and show curiosity about the end to end and wider context.

Collaboration and Communication: Proactive engagement with other collaborators across the Group for seamless integration of financial processes with the broader change management initiatives. Opportunity for people management, managing a small team.

What you’ll need

We welcome candidates from diverse backgrounds, and we celebrate diversity in thought and experience.Here’s the minimum we’re looking for in your CV, to be considered for this role.

Education:

Bachelor's degree or relevant experience in Finance or Accounting, alongside a recognised accounting qualification (e.g., ACA, ACCA, CIMA) or moving towards achieving it.

Technical skills & experience:

Finance experience: Established experience in a related finance role, preferably within the Retail finance sector.

Strong technical proficiency: Strong technical competence, particularly in financial software and Microsoft Office Suite, especially Excel and Oracle.

Behavioural skills:

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills: Capable of interpreting large and complex financial data.

Communication skills: Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, adept at building relationships with collaborators at all levels.

Diligence: Strong attention to detail, organised and a dedication to accuracy in financial reporting.

Pro-activeness & continuous improvement: Self-motivated and a desire to improve existing processes, systems, and procedures through continuously challenging what we do and how we do it. A willingness to learn new skills is essential in the role.

Integrity: High ethical standards and a commitment to maintaining confidentiality and integrity in all financial matters.

And any experience of these would be really useful

Power BI, Power Automate, Python, GCP, R, Co-pilot.

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.

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

Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more.

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.