Product Control Assistant Manager - 12 month FTC

End Date

Monday 02 November 2026

Salary Range

£44,901 - £49,890

We support flexible working - click here for more information on flexible working options

Flexible Working Options

Hybrid Working, Job Share

Job Description Summary

Step into a role where strong financial control, fresh thinking and teamwork come together. As part of our supportive Trading Book team, you'll oversee daily profit and loss reporting, support month-end delivery and help resolve issues quickly and effectively.

You'll be encouraged to keep learning, share your knowledge and explore new ways to make our processes simpler and stronger. You'll work closely with partners across the business while helping junior colleagues grow their skills and confidence. If you're ready for a rewarding new challenge, this is your chance to grow your career and contribute to the future success of Product Control!

Job Description

JOB TITLE: Assistant Manager, Product Control - 12 month Fixed Term Contract

SALARY: As per range

LOCATION(S): Edinburgh, Princes Exchange

HOURS: Full time

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid

Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of your time, at one of our office sites.

About this opportunity

Join our Trading Book Product Control team and help deliver accurate financial reporting and effective financial control in a fast-changing environment.

You'll support the team's daily operations, with a focus on profit and loss reporting, month-end delivery and resolving financial control issues. You'll work alongside supportive colleagues who share knowledge, learn from one another and look for practical ways to improve how the team operates.

What you'll be doing

• Review and prepare daily profit and loss reporting, reconciliations and sign-offs, resolving issues as they arise.
• Support month-end close activities, helping to report and independently validate the Group's balance sheet accurately and on time.
• Apply and maintain a robust financial control framework across the team's processes.
• Investigate financial information and respond to ad hoc requests from partners.
• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, strengthen controls and simplify processes.
• Build productive relationships with partners and support the development of junior colleagues.

Why join 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.

What we're looking for

• Qualified or part qualified accountant with a desire for further study.
• At least 12 months gaining knowledge of Financial Instruments.
• 12 months or more developing relationship building and stakeholder management skills.
• Numerate and competent with MS Office applications, with 12 months or more experience with Excel.

And any experience of these would be really useful

• Experience of working in Financial Control or Audit.
• Experience of SQL and Macros.

This is a place for you

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion, supporting our customers, colleagues and communities. We are 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 launch a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.

We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. As a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role and have a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition, through the Disability Confident Scheme.

We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers - just let us know what you need.

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
• 28 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Ready for a career where you'll learn and thrive? Apply today and find out more.

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.

We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we're building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.