Ip&i Technology Finance Lead

End Date

Monday 09 December 2024

Salary Range

£57,546 - £63,940

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

Flexible Working Options

Hybrid Working

Job Description Summary


Job Description

JOB TITLE: £57,546 - £63,940

SALARY: £57,546 - £63,940

LOCATION: Edinburgh or Bristol or Leeds

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
Insurance, Pensions & Investments (IP&I) is beginning the journey of disrupting the Insurance and Pensions market through creating new digital and market leading propositions. Our business needs to change to ensure we remain relevant for our customers today and tomorrow in an increasingly competitive, volatile and digitally led environment.

We are seeking an experienced and dynamic Technology Finance manager as part of the CIO Technology Finance team in managing financial planning, analysis, and reporting for CIO IP&I. In this role, you will act as a key partner to the CIO Workforce planning team & CIO stakeholders, driving financial performance, budgeting, and investments related to technology initiatives across our platforms within CIO.

This role is a great opportunity to be at the heart of supporting IP&I’s transformation, where you’ll have the opportunity to be part of a brand-new team with a changing purpose and role. You’ll have a chance to shape new ways of working; have engagement with stakeholders across GCOO & IP&I and truly transform the way we approach our workload and priorities.

As the CIO Technology Finance Lead, you will:

- Financial Planning & Analysis - Supporting financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes for CIO IP&I, ensuring alignment with partners and reporting.
- Cost Management - Analyse and support management of CIO BAU budget and indirect costs to support and drive cost efficiencies.
- Insightful decision making - ensuring there is appropriate, accurate and timely management information to support CIO decision making.
- Finance initiatives - Lead the financial management of CIO initiatives, tracking of actuals vs. budget, and identifying risks to delivery.
- Financial Risk Management - Identify financial risks and opportunities associated with CIO IP&I book of work, ensuring appropriate controls and governance processes are in place.

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:

- Strong financial management experience.
- Proficiency in financial modelling, analysis, and reporting tools.
- Strong stakeholder management
- Ideally a Financial Services background
- Thought leadership, data analysis and reporting skills
- An ability to understand and interpret large quantities of data / information translating it into relevant insight which enables informative decision making
- Ability to operationalise and embed operational processes and reporting

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’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

If you’re excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We’d love to hear from you.

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