Finance Manager - Trading Book Product Control

Location: City of Edinburgh

** End Date
** Friday 02 January 2026
** Salary Range**£65,385 - £72,650
** Flexible Working Options
** Hybrid Working, Job Share
** Job Description Summary**.
** Job Description
**** JOB TITLE**:
Finance Manager - Trading Book Product Control
** SALARY:** £65,385 - £72,650
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* LOCATION:

** Edinburgh
* * 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
** Lloyds Banking Group is the UK’s largest Digital, Retail and Commercial Bank with a focus on Helping Britain Prosper and our Finance teams sit at the heart of the organisation with responsibility for the core platforms, processes, financial reporting and controls.

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.

This is an exciting opportunity within Product Control. You’ll become a leader within the Trading Book team, responsible for the production of the daily P&L across the LBG's Trading Desk's. This includes providing analysis of the P&L at the appropriate level of granularity, ensuring rigorous controls are in place around the completeness, accuracy and presentation of p/l, including reserves. You will manage workload, solve problems, share knowledge and resolve issues.

Trading Book PC is an agile and supportive team with a desire to further all of its colleagues development goals, via learning opportunities, knowledge sharing and cross training. The successful candidate will be actively lead the day to day operation of the team, particularly the daily P&L and monthly deliverables and adhoc project work.

We’re looking for a team player who is enthusiastic, keen to keep on learning, with an interest in financial markets and current affairs.
** What You'll be Doing
*** Reviewing and preparing daily P&L production, reconciliations, signoffs, issue resolution.
* Managing the month-end close processes associated with accurately reporting and independently validating the bank’s balance sheet in a timely manner.
* Preparation of analysis and in-depth commentary on p/l and b/s moves
* Leading interaction with stakeholders, including trading
* Supporting a robust control framework for all processes within remit.
* Undertaking ad hoc work and investigation arising from partner requests.
* Supporting delivery of efficiencies and a culture of continuous improvement.
* Establishing and building relationships with partners.
* Mentoring junior colleagues
** Why Lloyds Banking Group
** From building a truly sustainable business to creating a place where people love to work, we need colleagues who are up for the challenge of our bold ambitions. Who are excited to push boundaries and make change happen. Together, we can grow with purpose.
** Who are we looking for
** A hard working Team player who is enthusiastic and keen to learn with an interest in financial markets and current affairs.
* Qualified or part qualified accountant with significant relevant experience
* Experience of working in Product/Financial Control or Audit as a manager
* Knowledge of Financial Instruments.
* Relationship building and Stakeholder management
* Skilled in Microsoft Applications and interest in developing AI-driven solutions
** And any experience of these would be really useful:
*** SQL, python and Power Platforms
** 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…