Finance Assistant

Salary: £25,000 - £27,000 + Bonus

Location: Cheshire Oaks, Business Park (Hybrid)

Sector: Travel & Tourism

Study Support Offered

The role:The Finance Assistant will be a part of a dynamic and fluid finance team and will have the ability to be flexible and step into all Finance positions as and when required. This will involve covering various ad hoc duties within the Finance function.

Key Responsibilities

• Daily reconciliation of bank account(s), including posting to Sage
• Daily / weekly payment collections
• Administering supplier payments
• Supporting the team with reconciliations and ad hoc tasks that will assist with the preparation of management accounts
• Preparation and input of journals
• Liaising with the operations department on any queries that may arise
• Dealing with queries from tour operators and travel agents
• Provide reports to assist with the audit of data held

Ideal Experience

• Experience of dealing with large volumes of data
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a flair for time management, accuracy and organisation.
• Experience using Microsoft Office applications.
• A self-motivated team player with the ability to work on your own initiative and make informed decisions.
• A Level Maths / Accountancy / working towards AAT / or relevant experience in a similar role would be beneficial.

Benefits

• Annual company bonus in addition to your salary.
• 33 days annual leave, including bank holidays.
• 5% matched company pension contribution.
• Modern office with on-site gym and bar so you can enjoy a free drink on a Friday!
• Internal training academy to support your learning and personal development.

Please apply via the link or contact myself for more information about the role -

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Job Description

Position: Finance Assistant

Location: Deeside

Hours: Monday to Friday 8am - 16:30pm

Salary: Up to £30,000p/a

HRGO recruitment are currently recruiting a Finance Assistant for our client based in Deeside. The ideal candidate will be a motivated, dynamic finance professional with at least 12 months experience within a finance department. Previous manufacturing exposure is desirable.

Skills and requirements:

• Understanding of accounting principles and current financial legislation.
• Ensuring invoices are processed according to the necessary approvals and internal controls
• Maintain accurate records, including ledgers, journals, receipts, and invoices.
• Processing employee expenses
• Handling and solving supplier queries

Preferred Experience:

• Experience of SAP, SAGE, and MS Office
• Experience with major capital investment projects
• Previously worked on manufacturing site.

Please call Nicola at HRGO recruitment on 01513471110 for more information or email Nicola.Evans@HRGO.co.uk

JOB TITLE: Assistant Manager, Control Execution

SALARY: £42,120 - £46,800

LOCATION(S): Chester, Leeds or Manchester

HOURS: Full time

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, minimum 2 days per week at Cawley House, Portland Street or Wellington Place.

About this opportunity

We're on an exciting journey and there couldn't be a better time to join us. We're putting in place a fresh operating model for non-financial risk management across Lloyds Banking Group, empowering our people to take end-to-end accountability for managing the risks they face.

This assistant manager role is within our Library Control Execution Team which is a core part of the Consumer Lending Chief Controls Office. We use our operational knowledge of the Group structure and Consumer Lending business unit to lead the application of the risk taxonomy and improvements in the control environment. You'll be designing, implementing, assessing and improving controls across the whole taxonomy for all of the Lending business.

Supervising and supporting a range of control management processes and activities in alignment with the Group's Enterprise Risk Management Framework (ERMF). Managing the timely and accurate production of high-quality documentation, reporting and analysis to support development of the control environment:

• Working with risk and control owner teams to help deliver against aligned customer, business and strategic outcomes.
• Producing timely and accurate documents and reports by collecting risk and control data from a variety of sources and input data into standardised formats.
• Assisting the development of the first line control management centre of excellence that supports safe growth and enables high quality customer service.
• Delivering prescribed outcomes by working with established control design, mapping, monitoring and testing approaches. Reporting findings to senior colleagues.
• Assisting in the management of actions on operational risk events and breaches following Risk & Control Self-Assessment (RCSA). Identifying issues and then suggesting and implementing improvements to the control environment with guidance from senior colleagues.

About us

Like the modern Britain we serve, we're evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We're growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too…

What you'll need

We're looking for someone who can apply Operational knowledge of our Consumer Lending business unit sufficiently to be able to support a range of processes relating to implementation of the Risk Taxonomy, RCSA management and control execution. Ideally with experience in a related field (eg audit or risk & control management) or, alternatively, having gained capability through experience in a similar function along with:

• Control management - experience of data-led control management and its practical implementation. Good organisational skills to support the preparation of documentation that includes summarising data and information to produce and maintain standardised risk and control process maps. Ability to provide support to the ongoing development of control tooling solutions to enable optimisation and automation of the control environment.
• Data & Analytics- ability to understand and assimilate different sources of data and complex information to support with effective problem solving that leads to relevant conclusions and recommendations. Experience of bringing to bear strong analytical skills to support the assessment of the control environment effectiveness using a wide range of information and sources to identify potential impacts on the business.
• Reporting- ability to provide support with control testing activity to enable the production of concise reporting outputs on the efficiency and performance of controls and compliance.

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.

And it's why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.

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 bonus award, subject to Group performance
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 28 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.

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JOB TITLE: Lead Quality Engineer

SALARY: £68,202 - £75,780

LOCATION(S): Chester

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 recruiting for a Lead Quality Engineer to work closely with the Engineering Lead within the Embedded Finance Team.

This is a key role offering a unique and challenging opportunity to shape the growing Embedded Finance Tech Team and Quality Engineering framework.

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're inspired by a clear purpose: to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are passionate about making a difference to customers, businesses, and communities.

The Embedded Finance team is a fast-paced start-up group within Consumer Lending and is tasked with building out propositions that solve customers' financial needs, when and where they are. We have just launched our first product, Black Horse Flex Pay, and we're developing innovative products aiming to offer customers and merchants modern ways for online purchasing, with the ethos of Lloyds Banking Group responsible lending.

As the Lead Quality Engineer, you'll be in charge of leading all aspects of the quality roadmap, including creating testing strategies and coordinating the automation process using standard software testing practices.

Plus, you'll work closely with developers, business partners and product managers to build the testing framework and test suites to support our continuous deployment pipeline ensuring robust and efficient releases.

Aside of hands-on contribution, you'll hire and grow a team of Quality Engineers, developing people by coaching and technical leadership.

You'll provide Quality Engineering oversight and technical expertise throughout the entire software lifecycle, in a complex scenario integrated with third-party systems.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

We're on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we're shaping finance for good. We're focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you.

What you'll need:

• Strong Quality Engineering background, including automated testing frameworks and testing best practices

• Automation-first approach, with a passion for driving productivity and a focus on reducing risk

• Experience with cloud environment (e.g. GCP) and testing infrastructure

• Proven leadership skills in guiding Quality Engineering teams or complex programmes using Agile methodologies

• Proficiency in coding languages such as Java, Python, or similar

• Solid knowledge of CI/CD pipelines

And any experience of these would be really useful:

• Familiarity with Embedded Finance or financial services applications

• Experience with Jira Align and Confluence

• Familiarity with SQL and Snowflake

• Experience on non-functional testing on live systems at scale

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're committed to creating a consciously inclusive workplace where our colleagues can be themselves, thrive and perform at their best. 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.

As an inclusive employer, we offer Workplace Adjustments for colleagues with a disability (which may include long-term health and neurodivergent conditions) where it is reasonable to do so. This could include flexibility with regards to office attendance, location, and working pattern.

We're proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. If you have a disability, you can also apply via our Disability Confident Scheme (DCS). Through the DCS, we guarantee to interview a fair and proportionate number of applicants with a disability, whose application meets the minimum criteria for the advertised job role.

We also provide adjustments that are reasonable throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers for applicants with a disability, long-term health condition or neurodivergent condition. If you'd like an adjustment to the recruitment process 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

Want to do amazing work, that's interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey!

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JOB TITLE: Senior Manager, Control Design & Optimisation - Unsecured Consumer Lending

SALARY: From £80,206

LOCATION(S): Chester, Cardiff, Leeds or Manchester

HOURS: Full time

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an office site

About this opportunity

We are looking for a dynamic, motivated, and forward-thinking senior manager to join the Consumer Lending Chief Controls Office. In this role, you will:

• Lead key initiatives to improve our non-financial control environment.
• Embed control by design and advance control automation within Consumer Lending.
• Support Consumer Lending in identifying opportunities to simplify, optimise, and automate controls using innovative technology.
• Support Consumer Lending in achieving strategic goals and delivering faster, more efficient services for our customers.

We are committed to building a high-performing team where each colleague is valued, supported, and empowered to become an expert in their field. Our goal is to ensure every team member understands their role within the broader Group strategy, contributing to the safe and effective management of non-financial risk in Consumer Lending.

About us

As the Group embarks on one of the UK's most significant financial services transformations, our internal risk transformation focused on instilling a robust risk and control culture has never been more crucial. We're on an exciting journey and there couldn't be a better time to join us. The investments we're making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities, and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive.

What you'll need

• Leadership: Ability to inspire and lead a team towards achieving strategic goals.
• Communication: Strong verbal and written communication skills to convey complex ideas clearly.
• Strategic Thinking: Capability to think ahead and plan for future control needs and improvements.
• Problem-Solving: Aptitude for identifying issues and developing effective solutions.
• Collaboration: Working effectively with other areas and stakeholders.
• Adaptability: Being flexible and open to change, especially in a challenging environment.

It would also be great if you have:

• Risk and Control Management: Robust understanding of the Risk and Control Management Framework with practical control management knowledge and experience.
• End to End Risk and Control mapping - Delivering prescribed outcomes by working with established control design, mapping, monitoring and testing approaches.
• Control by Design (CbD) - An understanding of the Control by Design Methodology.
• Platform Change Framework (PCF) - Knowledge of PCF and how change is delivered within the Group.
• RCSA - Experience using the RCSA system and working with risk and control owner teams.

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organization 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.

And it's why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.

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 bonus award, subject to Group performance
• 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.

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

Summary

Job Description for Finance Business Partner (FTC - 18 months):

There's never been a more exciting time to be part of the nuclear sector. New opportunities are being created all the time. At NNL, you'll be in the ideal place to capitalise on this momentum, face new challenges and develop a long, successful and meaningful career.

We're an organisation that's here to experiment and push the limits of what's possible. So, if you're keen to excel in your chosen field, this is the place to do it. Because at NNL, anything is possible.

As a senior functional manager, the Finance Business Partner leads a team of finance professionals to provide a range of financial services to the business or a specific area of the business (the supported area). The Finance Business Partner is a trusted advisor to and an integral part of the operational management team in the supported area and shares a responsibility for target setting and delivery with that team. Through the development and delivery of insightful financial reporting and performance analysis the Finance Business Partner will influence key operational and commercial decisions and drive performance in the supported area and, in collaboration with the operational management team will develop the plans which meet the company objectives. As a technical expert the Finance Business Partner will ensure that the supported area is operating in line with all relevant accounting and financial policies and processes.

Main Responsibilities for Finance Business Partner (FTC - 18 months):

• Influencing strategic direction in the supported area.


• Influencing strategy of the finance function.


• Participating in major contract negotiations.


• Providing timely, accurate and insightful financial analysis and management information to link financial performance with business activity.


• Holding operational management in the supported area accountable for financial performance, ensuring all targets are met


• Understanding the cost / revenue drivers in the supported area and providing insight to non-financial management.


• Challenging current ways of working, driving long term efficiencies / cost savings / revenue increases wherever possible.


• Leading the financial planning activity in the supported area across multiple planning horizons (in year, project lifetime. rolling annual, 5 years and 10 years).


• Analysing business opportunities and providing options and scenarios to support business decisions.


• Preparing robust business cases, in collaboration with the operation management team, in advance of submission to internal investment or customer committees.


• Leading and developing a team providing cost centre / profit centre / project accounting services to the supported area.


• Supporting operational management to identify and mitigate / realise risk / opportunities.


• Defining and delivering continuous improvement activities in the function and the supported area.


• Ensuring the supported area complies with all financial policies and procedures.


• Lead any audit activity relevant to the supported area.


• Set costing rates relevant to the supported area / contract.

Essential Criteria for Finance Business Partner (FTC - 18 months):

• Chartered Accountant (CIMA / ACCA / ACA) with demonstrable post qualified experience.


• Ability to obtain SC level security clearance (this includes but is not limited to identity, employment, financial and criminal record checks plus 5 years' worth of UK residency).

Desirable Criteria for Finance Business Partner (FTC - 18 months):

• Experience with Agresso.


• Line Management Experience.


• Experience dealing with board level executives.


• Capital Accounting Experience.

Why join us?

NNL isn't just a place where you can do career-defining work that makes a real-world impact. It's also a place where you'll feel appreciated and valued. We're creating an inclusive workplace where everyone is free to be themselves and feel like they belong. We put your wellbeing first, we push you to reach your potential, and we do everything possible to help you feel safe, supported and inspired.

We also offer a range of employee benefits:

• Sector leading Family-Focused Policies: celebrate life events, including enhanced maternity and paternity leave and a week off for your marriage.


• NNL offers attractive pension plans. If you contribute 5%, NNL contributes 15%. Alternatively, if you choose not to contribute (0%), NNL will still contribute 10%.


• Annual Leave: Benefit from 25.5 days of leave, plus 4 extra days to be taken during Christmas shutdown, plus Bank Holidays.


• Reduced gym membership with discounts of up to 25% from 3,700 gym and leisure providers across the UK


• Company Bonus: Be rewarded for your contributions.


• Learning Opportunities: Enhance your skills through excellent development programmes.


• Employee Assistance: Access support for personal and professional challenges.


• Cycle to Work: Stay active and eco-friendly.


• Life Assurance: Ensure peace of mind for you and your loved ones.


• Enhanced Sick Pay Benefits: Receive support during illness or injury.


• Access to 'Mydiscounts' which has a range of special offers and discounts from more than 200 suppliers, including medical insurance and dental insurance.


• Health Care: Health savings plan which allows you to claim money back on visits to the dentist, optician and/or physiotherapist (limits apply).

About The Company

NNL is an incredible place to work. A place where people do things that have never been done before. A place where people push boundaries to further themselves, the business and society as a whole.

This is a place where personal and professional opportunities are limitless. If you want to change the world, if you want to tackle climate change, if you want to help advance medical science, if you want to help put things in space, if you want to answer the big questions, if you want to work with extraordinary materials, if you want to meet great people, learn new skills, challenge yourself, work flexibly, and build a long successful career with the power to make a real impact… you can do it all here.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

NNL has a vision for Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity (ED&I) where NNL aims to be an inclusive workplace that attracts diverse talent through transparent and equal policies and procedures. We want you and the diverse mix of people that we employ, customers that we service and stakeholders that we influence to feel valued. We encourage a workplace culture where everyone can thrive with a sense of belonging.

Recruitment Agency Notice

We operate a strict Preferred Supplier List (PSL) for the provision of recruitment services. Only agencies on our PSL may provide CVs and only when the role is released to them by our recruitment team. We will not accept unsolicited CVs from suppliers not currently on our PSL. We explicitly reserve the right to add candidate details from unsolicited CVs from non-PSL agencies into our own candidate database and to pursue/hire such candidate(s) without any obligation, financial or otherwise, to the agency concerned.

Service Care Solutions are recruiting on behalf of a local authority in Cheshire for a Clerical Assistant Client Finance to join their team. Please find a description of the role tomorrow.

Rate: 14.65 (ltd)

Hours: 37

Working: Hybrid (once initial training is completed)

Location: Cheshire

JOB PURPOSE:

To provide clerical support to Client Finance Teams and assist in the processing of Financial Assessment forms and other client related information.

PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• To have a working knowledge of current Adult Social Care Charging regulations, policies, and procedures.
• Using the Document Imaging system to scan and index documents.
• To deal with letters and correspondence received within the Client Finance Team, both in writing or sent electronically via email or via online Financial Assessment tool.
• To deal with queries raised by service users of Social Care, over the telephone as required.
• To liaise with Adult Social Care, Transactional Services and Corporate Debt on individual cases.
• To liaise with the other teams in the Council where necessary.
• To provide efficient and effective clerical support to the Financial Assessment Team to enable Financial Assessments to be assessed and calculated in a timely manner and service users notified of outcomes, in writing.
• To process routine changes of circumstances in specific types of claims.
• Provide clerical support, efficiently and effectively across the whole of Client Finance as required.
• To input data into computer systems.

If you are interested in the role, or know anyone who may be, please contact Marc at Service Care Solutions on 01772 208969 or email marc.facer@servicecare.org.uk.

Service Care Solutions also offers a £250 referral bonus! So, if you know of anyone who would be perfect for this position and they are placed into work, you will receive £250 for the referral once their probationary period has been completed.

If you have any questions or queries, please don't not hesitate to ask.

Our client in Chester is seeking a Junior Insurance Broker, presenting a superb opportunity to work with an independent broker backed by one of the world's largest commercial insurance brokers. The successful candidate will initially work under delegated authority in medical malpractice for six months, gaining a comprehensive understanding of this niche scheme. Applicants should have at least two years of experience in underwriting or handling.

After a successful period in this industry specialisation, you will transition to the commercial combined aspect of the business. This will involve managing your own renewal list and evolving into a standard commercial broker role. Responsibilities will include presenting to clients, conducting client meetings, and potentially engaging in business development and market research.

Are you seeking your next career step, feeling your development has ground to a halt or simply desiring to join a growing business with stability? Our client offers an excellent opportunity within a well-managed organisation that values autonomy.

We look forward to hearing from you.

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JOB TITLE: Senior Lawyer - Securitisation

SALARY: £107,508 - £126,480

LOCATION(S): Leeds, Halifax, Edinburgh, Chester and Bristol

HOURS: Full-time/Part-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

This is an excellent chance for a senior lawyer to join the Securities & Asset Management Legal team (SAML) on a 12-month fixed term contract to work on a variety of debt capital markets transactions including, in particular, securitisations. Ours is a positive, friendly and pragmatic legal team, working closely with the Corporate & Institutional Banking (CIB) business areas for clients both in the UK and overseas. Our clients are often household names and all play a meaningful role in the economy. Now is a superb time to join us, given this is a growing and strategic area for Lloyds Banking Group (the Group) and the wider economy.

The team supports across a variety of transaction types, and you'll learn about both existing and new products and services for clients. Products include securitisations, covered bonds and other secured transactions, unsecured primary bond issuances and private placements, green bonds, social housing bonds, structured products, liability management exercises and high yield transactions. Support is also provided to other business areas, including those engaged in ESG and ratings advisory services. The team also works on transformation, strategic and regulatory projects for business, and collaborates with other Legal & Secretariat teams on initiatives in support of the wider team.

You would report to the Head of Legal of SAML and whilst your primary focus would be on debt capital markets transactions, you may also support other members of SAML on other Group matters.

Day to day you'll:

• Provide sound, commercial and strategic legal advice, drawing from your experience and insights;

• Horizon scan and advise on changes in law and regulation and potential impacts and opportunities for our business;

• Be driven by excellent outcomes for clients and the Group, handling legal risks and delivering results;

• Come up with innovative ideas, challenge where appropriate, and build consensus;

• Collaborate across L&S to support the wider business and our community as a whole;

• Work well both as an individual and in groups, including in a friendly team which will help you develop your skills and knowledge in this area:

• Bring passion for our values of being bold and taking action, trusting each other, putting people first, and embracing our differences.

About us

We're on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we're shaping finance for good. We're focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you!

What you'll need

• Ideally you would have a minimum of 6 years' post-qualification experience in and a good understanding of the legal and regulatory framework and market practices applying to securitisation transactions, however, if that is not the case, but you do have similar expertise in other debt capital markets transactions and clearly transferable skills, and are serious about your development, we would be pleased to consider your application.

• You must hold a current practising certificate in a common law jurisdiction.

• Have a growth mindset and an agile approach and be keen to get up to speed and settle into the team quickly, to identify ways to improve processes and practice for business, and to upskill in other areas which impact and bring opportunities to this business, such as ESG, Data, Tech Advances and Digitalisation.

• Be great at building trust and influencing others including senior internal stakeholders, and know how to get the best from your colleagues, network and external advisers to achieve more together.

We'll support your growth in this role with continuous training and development opportunities, regular feedback and career development conversations to help you fulfil your career potential, whatever your aspirations may be.

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're committed to creating a consciously inclusive workplace where our colleagues can be themselves, thrive and perform at their best.

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.

As an inclusive employer, we offer Workplace Adjustments for colleagues with a disability (which may include long-term health and neurodivergent conditions) where it is reasonable to do so. This could include flexibility with regards to office attendance, location, and working pattern.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. If you have a disability, you can also apply via our Disability Confident Scheme (DCS). Through the DCS, we guarantee to interview a fair and proportionate number of applicants with a disability, whose application meets the minimum criteria for the advertised job role.

We also provide adjustments that are reasonable throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers for applicants with a disability, long-term health condition or neurodivergent condition. If you'd like an adjustment to the recruitment process 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, please submit your application supported by your CV and a brief cover letter. We'd love to hear from you!

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

JOB TITLE: Assistant Manager, Control Design & Optimisation

SALARY: From £42,120

LOCATION(S): Chester, Cardiff, Leeds or Manchester

HOURS: Full time

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an office site

About this opportunity

This is an opportunity to join the Consumer Lending Chief Controls Office within the Consumer Lending Chief Operating Office, delivering a broad range of activities that focus on how Consumer Lending manages its non-financial control environment.

We are building a team where our colleagues are valued and supported to become experts in what they do and grow their careers. We want colleagues to feel connected to our Group strategy and how their role fits into it, supporting Consumer Lending deliver its objectives for non-financial risk, safely.

This assistant manager role is within our Control Design & Optimisation team which is a core part of the Consumer Lending Chief Controls Office. The Control office team are focussed on simplifying, optimising, and automating controls, leveraging new technology, supporting Consumer Lending to achieve its goals and unlocking the potential to go faster for our customers.

About us

We're on an exciting journey and there couldn't be a better time to join us. The investments we're making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities, and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive.

What you'll need

We're looking for someone who can support a range of activities relating to end to end process mapping and documentation, identifying gaps and understanding where automation is possible. Ideally with experience in a related field (e.g. audit or risk & control management) or, alternatively, having gained capability through experience in a similar function along with:

• An analytical and inquisitive mentality with a background in problem solving
• End to End Risk and Control mapping - Delivering prescribed outcomes by working with established control design, mapping, monitoring and testing approaches. Along with mapping existing controls to applicable risks, identifying any controls which are key. As well as identifying issues or gaps within the business processes and then suggesting and implementing improvements to the control environment with guidance from senior colleagues.
• Control by Design (CbD) - Understanding of the CbD approach and key deliverables of each stage and facilitating the mapping and identification of opportunities to embed automated controls at the design stage.
• RCSA - Experience using the RCSA system and working with risk and control owner teams to help deliver against aligned customer, business and strategic outcomes. Working with risk and control owner teams to investigate questions related to the existing control environment.
• Values & Behaviours - Innovate to go faster by taking responsibility for challenging existing processes; being an early adopter of change and viewing advancements in technology as opportunities to help us deliver for our customers; inspire others by building rapport and gaining commitment through strong personal identity; embrace diverse viewpoints, demonstrated in the way you do business and collaborate with others. Demonstrate a growth learning mindset and open to new experiences to intentionally grow your individual and team skill set.

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.

And it's why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.

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 bonus award, subject to Group performance
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 28 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.

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme