Your role
As Financial Controller for Lending, you act as a co-pilot to the business, providing insight, challenge, and commercial decision support to help deliver strategic goals for both customers and shareholders. You will be the key finance point of contact for the Head of Lending and their teams, supporting financial planning, analysis, and reporting, and enabling informed business decisions.
A day in the life of a Financial Controller
After your morning coffee (or indeed tea) you join the daily team huddle and discuss latest progress on the ongoing activities, exchanging insights and challenges. Mid-morning, you join a business planning meeting to challenge assumptions and provide financial input on a new product proposal.
You grab lunch with a group of colleagues, where you learn about the latest developments from other areas that could affect our lending products or processes – maybe something to discuss with the key stakeholders?
After lunch you get you work on updating the quarterly or monthly forecast, ensuring alignment with strategic targets and regulatory requirements.
Later, you analyse stress test results and attend a meeting with team members to discuss and prepare a concise summary for senior management.
You finish the day by collaborating with colleagues on improving financial models and planning for upcoming month-end or forecasting cycles.
Your Team
This role is within the Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) team. We are responsible for forecasting the Banks profit and loss statements, through our usual planning cycles and in stress scenarios. We are also responsible for analysing the banks financial performance and supporting the business through partnering. The team consists of 12 professionals based in NL & DE, bringing diverse backgrounds and different perspectives to the table.
Our team is all about working together, being open, and always learning. We share ideas freely, challenge each other in a positive way, and take responsibility for getting things done. Through our regular catchups we keep everyone on the same page, align priorities, and ensure tasks and responsibilities are shared. There is a strong focus on teamwork, with quick problem-solving and open conversations to keep tasks moving.
The team is a mix of professionalism and a friendly vibe that helps the us deliver great results to the wider business while supporting each other.
Your Accountabilities
Financial Planning & Forecasting
Develop budgets and forecasts, including quarterly and long-term plans, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives.
Business Partnering
Act as the primary finance partner for the Head of Lending, contributing to business cases, pricing strategies, and margin management.
Analysis & Decision Support
Deliver ad hoc financial and scenario analyses, providing MI to influence operational and strategic decisions.
Stress Testing
Support internal and regulatory stress testing to assess capital and liquidity resilience.
Model Management & Controls
Maintain and enhance financial planning models with robust controls and audit trails.
Stakeholder Engagement
Ensure clear communication between Finance and the business, supporting BAU integration of new projects.
You recognize yourself in this profile
Key Competencies
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Bachelor’s degree and 5+ years’ experience in finance roles.
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Expertise in financial modelling and discounted cashflows.
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Commercial awareness and understanding of the banking environment.
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Strong planning, organisation, and stakeholder management skills.
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Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
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Fluent in English; Dutch is a plus.
Qualifications
Qualified accountant with strong knowledge of IFRS accounting.
Some highlights of our benefits for you!
- 13th-month salary, either paid monthly or once a year in December.
- 30 days PTO (or 240 hours) per year (based on full-time employment).
- Non-contributory pension scheme.
- Flexible working; you can schedule your work hours to meet your personal needs.
Your recruitment process
Apply to our vacancies by sending your CV and motivation letter to stanley.waccary@lloydsbank.nl, or use the application form on our website. After receiving your application, we'll review it and share a reply as soon as possible.
After you have submitted your application, our recruiter Stanley Waccary will reach out to you to plan a short introductory chat via Teams.
Your first chat with us will take place either online or at our Amsterdam office. The goal of this chat is get to know each other, and see if there's a match with the team, the organisation and the open position.
We're excited to have you meet additional collagues. The chat will take place either online or at our Amsterdam office, during which we'll dive deeper into the requirements of the position and the team you'll be joining.
Congratulations! We're happy to have you as our newest addition to the team. Do you feel the same way? Then you'll receive our offer by email. For most roles, a screening is part of the process. This will take place after accepting the offer.
About Lloyds Bank
Lloyds Bank GmbH is part of Lloyds Banking Group, a financial institution with a large clientele in the UK and other parts of the world. Together with our office in Berlin, we form Lloyds Bank GmbH with its headquarters in Amsterdam and we have over 500 colleagues.
We aim to lead by example in the bold decisions we make as a business, from where and how we invest, to the products and services we offer, and of course the workplace we create. We will search for new ways to work with people, communities and businesses, to always evolve with their needs. And we will never stop innovating to make sustainable, ethical choices easy and rewarding.
At Lloyds Bank GmbH we play an important part in peoples’ lives, by the products we offer, and also how we operate. We finance your mortgage, keep your savings secure and also provide you with a personal loan if you need this. In Amsterdam we do this with an enthusiastic team of approximately 200 colleagues from different nationalities, and with an engagement score of 93%, colleagues find us a real ‘Great Place to Work’!
With our grand ambitions, we are looking for new colleagues who will bring fresh ideas to help us grow!
Are you ready to join our journey?
Have we made you curious, and are you ready to join the team? Please introduce yourself to us in the best way possible and send your application, including your paper on risk elements within the mortgage market, to: stanley.waccary@lloydsbank.nl. A screening is part of the process.
We hope to meet you soon!
Acquisition to this vacancy is not appreciated.