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JOB TITLE: Senior Finance Manager - Legal Entity & Securitisation Control & Reporting

SALARY: £85,493 - £100,580

LOCATIONS: Edinburgh

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. Colleagues with disabilities can be supported with workplace adjustments including hybrid working expectations in line with our Flexibility Works policy.

About this opportunity

This is a senior leadership role responsible for high-quality legal entity, statutory and securitisation control and reporting. You'll lead teams covering subsidiary statutory accounts, legal entity governance, and securitisation reporting bringing together annual reporting, month-end control and longer-term transformation. 

You'll combine strong delivery with inclusive leadership and shape a simpler, more scalable operation through technology, data, automation and robust controls. 

What you'll be doing 

• Lead and develop managers and colleagues across Legal Entity, Statutory Reporting, & Securitisation, 
• Own the statutory reporting cycle across a broad subsidiary portfolio, including planning, tracking, review, audit co-ordination, Board support, filing and lessons learned. 
• Provide senior oversight of monthly, quarterly and annual accounting and reporting for securitisation vehicles. 
• Lead legal entity governance, including entity data, attestations, reporting submissions, tagging, liquidations and ledger clean-up. 
• Own and strengthen the control environment, including account ownership, substantiation, control documentation, risk assessment, QAR activity and escalation. 
• Build trusted relationships with auditors, Company Secretariat, directors, Treasury, Finance Valuation Control, Tax, External Reporting and Regulatory Reporting. 
• Provide technical oversight for complex instruments, transactions, valuations and reporting judgements. 
• Drive statutory reporting improvement and wider transformation through standardisation, automation and AI.

Why join us?

We’re transforming at pace. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to change the way we meet the needs of our 28 million customers. We’re growing, and we’d love you to be part of the journey.

What we’re looking for

We're looking for a senior finance leader who combines technical credibility, sound judgement, inclusive people leadership and a practical transformation mindset. You don't need to meet every point to apply. 

Essential experience and capabilities 

• A recognised accountancy qualification or equivalent senior-level technical accounting experience. 
• Strong statutory or external reporting, audit and financial control experience. 
• Experience leading managers and diverse teams through demanding delivery cycles and change. 
• Sound judgement on complex legal entity, securitisation, capital or valuation matters. 
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills. 

And any experience of these would be really useful

• Securitisation, SPVs, iXBRL tagging or regulatory submissions experience. 
• Legal entity simplification, control transformation, Workiva or technology-enabled reporting improvement. 

We know that great talent comes from many backgrounds. Whilst this job advert may reference specific years of experience, we recognise that skills are developed in many ways, so if you have relevant, transferable experience, we encourage you to apply.

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
• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Ready to make an impact? Apply today!

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.