Head of Finance Risk
Job in
Midlothian, Midlothian county, EH22 1FA, Scotland, UK
Listed on 2026-08-15
Listing for:
Lloyds Banking Group
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-08-15
Job specializations:
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Finance & Banking
Financial Compliance, Risk Manager/Analyst, Corporate Finance -
Management
Risk Manager/Analyst
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Salary Range0 - 0
We support flexible working – for more information on flexible working options
Flexible Working Options Hybrid Working, Job Share
Job Description Summary Ready to shape the future of Finance Risk & Controls and make an impact across one of the UK's largest financial services organisations? Join Group Finance Risk in a high-profile leadership role where you'll play a key role in the delivery of the Group's SOX programme, influence strategic risk and control decisions, and help transform the Finance control environment through innovation and automation.
Working with senior leaders across the Group, you'll strengthen risk and control understanding while helping to redefine the future of SOX assurance. This is a unique opportunity to drive meaningful change, lead at scale, and leave a lasting impact on Finance's risk and control agenda.
Job Description
JOB TITLE:
Head of Finance Risk SALARY:
Competitive package
LOCATION:
Edinburgh, New Uberior HouseADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:
Bristol Harbour side, Halifax Trinity Road
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
Do you want to help shape the future of Finance Risk & Controls?
For influential leaders who are passionate about risk management, controls, and inspiring change, this role offers a chance to make a significant impact across the Group!
Join Group Finance Risk and play a central leadership role at the heart of Finance. You'll help drive better outcomes across financial reporting, tax, legal and regulatory risk, strengthen controls, and support informed decision-making across Lloyds Banking Group.
This is an opportunity to play a key role in the delivery of the Group's SOX programme, influence Finance's risk and control strategy, and drive the transformation of the control environment through greater automation and innovation.
You'll work with senior people across the organisation, helping to build a scalable, resilient and future-focused control framework while shaping the next generation of assurance practices!
What you’ll be doing :
Lead and shape the Finance business partnering agenda while serving as a trusted adviser to Finance leadership teams. Drive strong outcomes across the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) program, risk management, control effectiveness, and delivery of strategic priorities.
Lead the delivery of the SOX programme by guiding Finance Business Partners and senior leaders to improve performance and remediation results. Identify risks and control weaknesses early and promptly address critical issues. Hold control owners accountable for maintaining a strong, balanced control environment and for timely fixing of deficiencies and problems.
Influence and support the progress of Finance's control transformation and automation agenda. Work closely with Finance divisions to speed up automation, simplify and standardise the control environment. Support the Group's ambition to build a more efficient, scalable, resilient, and technology-enabled control framework.
Champion innovation in assurance by advocating for the integration of data and AI-assisted testing techniques to boost testing coverage, quality, and efficiency, while cutting down manual testing effort across the SOX programme.
Deliver strategic recommendations regarding risk, controls, and regulatory matters, interpreting complex SOX, risk, and regulatory demands into practical business-focussed solutions and steps.
Lead and inspire a group of business partners by creating an environment that empowers colleagues to innovate, challenge the status quo, grow their careers, and achieve excellent results.
Enable executive governance and decision-making, coordinating high-quality risk insights, reporting, and narratives for senior leadership forums and key governance committees.
Why join us? If you think all banks are the same, you’re wrong. We’re a pioneering, fast-changing business that’s shaping finance as a force for good. If you’re after a role where you can have an impact and do the best work of your career, you’ve…
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