Overview

JOB TITLE: Head of Retail, Insurance Control & Reporting

LOCATION(S): Bristol

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.

This exciting role offers the opportunity to lead, build and motivate a team of approximately 60 finance professionals in the Retail & Insurance Financial Control and Reporting Team, partnering with Retail and Insurance Finance to deliver a robust control environment which gives confidence in reporting to your stakeholders. You will join Group Finance Support (part of GFS), a key function within the Finance community of LBG. We are a team of approximately 300 colleagues, with responsibilities including financial reporting and control, people and culture initiatives and strategy implementation. The team is undergoing a significant Transformation journey; you will be part of influencing, designing and implementing Finance Transformation over the next few years, both within Group Finance Support and beyond.

Day to day responsibilities

• Drive and positively influence key internal and external partners including Divisional Finance Directors, Risk Partners and our external auditors
• Provide challenge, insight and decision support to the Retail and Insurance Finance teams to improve business controls and performance
• Ensure robust risk management processes, including SOX and Risk OpenPages, are embedded within the team, delivering a high quality Financial Control environment
• Own and drive resolution of issues at pace, collaborating across teams to get the best solution for LBG
• Lead the team to support Transformation, including design and delivery in key areas of activity
• Build, lead and develop a professional, resilient and driven Finance team
• Drive continuous improvement, particularly through data improvement and the use of automation and AI tools
• As a key member of the Leadership team, drive cultural change to position the team for now and the future

What you’ll need

• Experienced leader with drive, energy and a growth mindset, who leads by example and has experience of leading a large team
• Qualified finance professional with significant post-qualification experience in control, management and statutory reporting
• Strong Risk and Control understanding, including LBG Risk OpenPages and SOX framework, with awareness of key risks facing LBG Finance
• Excellent communicator, able to influence and articulate complex issues at all levels across LBG, building strong diverse working relationships
• Strategic thinker with a passion for future transformation and continuous improvement within Finance
• A track record of attracting, inspiring and leading a diverse, high-performing team, managing performance to realise potential and retain talent
• Strong RSCA and SOX framework awareness; knowledge of key risks facing LBG Finance

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 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. 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 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.

Seniority level

• Director

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Finance

Industries

• Banking