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Director, Cost Management – Efficiency
Lloyds Banking Group. Oversee direct and indirect cost performance, workforce planning and investment evaluations within the Strategic Cost & Investment team .
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Oversee direct and indirect cost performance, workforce planning and investment evaluations within the Strategic Cost & Investment team
- Ensure disciplined financial management through robust FTE modelling, cost/benefit planning and business unit cost assessment
- Act as a key partner to CIB Finance and senior collaborators, aligning cost actions and investment decisions with strategic priorities
- Provide clear governance, executive‑ready insights and leadership communication to enable timely decisions
- Manage and maintain a consolidated view of CIB direct and indirect costs
- Establish and maintain cost control routines: run‑rate monitoring, variance analysis, drivers, and corrective action planning
- Partner with Finance to ensure consistent treatment of costs, allocations/chargebacks, and standardised reporting definitions and methodologies
- Lead identification of structural cost opportunities including scenario analysis and prioritisation
- Lead workforce planning across CIB in partnership with HR and Finance
- Build and maintain FTE models
Requirements
What you’ll need- Senior cost and financial management expertise (5+ years) - Experience in cost management, financial stewardship, or investment governance within a large, complex organisation (financial services preferred)
- Strong commercial and analytical judgement (5+ years) - Demonstrated experience applying commercial and financial judgement to complex cost and investment decisions
- Senior partnering and influence - Proven ability to build credibility and effective working relationships with senior leaders across Finance, HR and the business
- Cost governance and control - Strong experience in cost governance, planning, tracking and reporting
- Workforce planning and FTE modelling capability - Experience leading workforce planning and FTE modelling activities
- Complex change and decision-making in ambiguity - Experience operating in complex, evolving environments
Benefits
Comp & perks- 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
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Hard Skills & Tools
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Soft Skills
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