Senior Manager - Finance Chief Control Office

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Job Description

JOB TITLE: Senior Manager - Finance Chief Control Office

SALARY:  £85,493 - £100,580

LOCATION(S): Edinburgh and 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

About this opportunity

We’re strengthening the way Finance handles Non-Financial Risk, builds control excellence and delivers trusted outcomes for the Group. Within the Finance Chief Operating Office, the Finance Chief Control Office (FCCO) ensures robust oversight of potential risks and maintains firm first-line accountability.

We’re looking for a Senior Manager to lead the Finance Governance, Control Testing and Supplier Management teams within FCCO. This role involves collaborating with senior leaders across Finance, other Chief Control offices and 2LOD colleagues to embed the Resetting Risk framework. The goal is to strengthen the Group Finance control environment and improve executive risk insight quality.

This broad leadership role brings together control optimisation and testing, Finance risk reporting and oversight of Finance owned supplier relationships. As a member of the FCCO leadership team, the person in this position will work closely with the Head of Finance, Gorup Finance colleagues, Group Risk Specialists and Chief Control Offices across the Group. The FCCO remit covers Non-Financial Risk, excluding Financial Reporting and Tax risk.

What you'll be doing

• Lead on Control Improvement, Risk Reporting, and Supplier Coordination, setting clear priorities and delivering high quality, consistent outcomes across Group Finance.
• Drive the implementation and embedding of the Resetting Risk framework, translating Group requirements into effective Finance practices across risk assessment, governance, monitoring and reporting.
• Shape Finance executive risk reporting, providing clear, concise and data led insight into risk exposure, emerging risks and control effectiveness to support senior decision making.
• Lead control optimisation initiatives across Finance, simplifying and rationalising control environments, improving control effectiveness, and embedding critical control testing.
• Provide review and challenge to Finance Risk and Control Owners, helping them understand their risk exposure, meet framework requirements and address weaknesses.
• Strengthen supplier governance and oversight, ensuring Finance-owned suppliers and non-traditional arrangements meet Group policy, segmentation, monitoring and governance requirements, with emerging risks and performance concerns appropriately called out.
• Build positive relationships across Finance, Risk and the Chief Control Office community, sharing standard methodology, resolving cross-functional challenges and improving consistency across the Group.
• Lead and develop a high-performing team, encouraging accountability, inclusion, innovation, collaboration and continuous improvement.

These accountabilities preserve the defined remit for control optimisation and testing, risk profile reporting, critical control testing and Finance supplier management.

About us 

Join us and, as well as making a difference to customers, you’ll enjoy a fulfilling career where you’re free to be yourself. Great colleagues, transforming workspaces, hybrid working and a wide variety of career opportunities – you’ll find them all here. 

What you'll need

As an experienced and influential leader in risk management and oversight, you’ll bring:

• Strong experience of Non-Financial Risk, controls, audit or governance within Finance, financial services or another large, complex organisation.
• A strong understanding of risk management frameworks and their practical application within a first-line environment.
• Proven experience of leading control design, optimisation, rationalisation, automation, testing and monitoring.
• The ability to translate complex risk and control information into clear, actionable executive insight and high-quality governance reporting.
• Experience of supplier risk management or third-party governance, including policy compliance, performance monitoring and oversight of non-traditional arrangements.
• Strong judgement and the confidence to provide constructive challenge to senior Risk and Control Owners.
• A track record of establishing effective relationships across organisational boundaries, including with senior Finance customers, Risk Specialists and other Chief Control Offices.
• Proven people leadership experience, with the ability to build capability, set clear expectations and develop an inclusive, high-performing team.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills.

And any experience of these would be really useful

• A relevant professional qualification in risk, audit or accountancy is desirable but not essential where equivalent experience can be proven. 

What you’ll get in return

• This role offers significant breadth, visibility and influence across Group Finance. You’ll help shape how Finance manages Non-Financial Risk, strengthen executive insight and lead practical improvements to the control and supplier management environment.
• You’ll work closely with senior leaders across Finance, Risk and the wider Chief Control Office community, while leading a team central to building a simpler, more effective and increasingly data-led control environment. 

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

Like what you hear? Join us!​

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.