Head of Finance – Retail Cost Centre of Excellence

Lloyds Banking Group

Head of Finance leading the Consumer cost centre of excellence at Lloyds Banking Group. Driving month end cost reporting, planning, and automation across Yorkshire and Bristol.

Posted 5/28/2026full-timeEdinburgh • 🇬🇧 United KingdomLead💰 £116,535 - £137,100 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Setting the benchmark and leading the team on all month end activities for Consumer Lending and Relationships
Providing review, challenge, question and insight on all key outputs to ensure the highest standard and quality
Maintain a safely controlled cost and risk environment
Review, investigate and challenge material exceptions and provide supporting information
Build and manage relationships with all key stakeholders. Seeking feedback from customers and inspiring the team to deliver improvements
Be accountable for the delivery of the forecast & planning process ensuring excellent communications with all stakeholders and exceptional execution of processes
Contribute to the strategic direction of the Cost Centre of Excellence including playing a leadership role in the Cost Transformation Programme
Provide active engagement with the Finance business partners to ensure an excellent flow of communication and standards of inputs/outputs
Embed the Lloyds Banking Group culture and vision through visible leadership, being a role model for the Group’s leadership behaviours
Build a robust team, ensuring colleagues are developed effectively, utilising the groups Your Best principles

Requirements

What you’ll need

Scale leader who can motivate and drive delivery across a multi-site team, with a track record of developing high performing teams
Experience of leading large scale planning and reporting processes
Track record of developing a culture of process improvements, identifying opportunities for automation and simplification
Depth of relevant financial experience, to understand and apply relevant financial principles and controls, ensuring strong financial control is applied
A proven people leader with experience operating in or leading within a Centre of Excellence model, able to motivate and drive delivery across a large, multi-site team
Fully qualified accountant (e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) with significant post-qualification experience

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

financial principlesfinancial controlsplanning processesreporting processesprocess improvementsautomationsimplification

Soft Skills

leadershipteam developmentstakeholder managementcommunicationmotivationdeliveryrelationship building

Certifications

ACAACCACIMA