Lead Project Manager - Finance, Insurance (RO)

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Our vision is to make Lloyds Banking Group the best bank for customers. As the UK's largest retail and commercial bank, we have a footprint that touches nearly every community and household in the UK. That gives us a big responsibility to support the UK economy, and to put customers at the heart of everything we do. To achieve this, we also need to be the best bank for our colleagues and our communities - and we have a clear strategy in place to make this a reality. We are building on our many strengths: iconic brands, strong heritages and great people. To unlock the great potential in our business, we are becoming more efficient, more transparent, and more responsive to customers. Already the UK's largest community investor, we are giving even more back. Above all, we are putting customers first.

The Lloyds Banking Group Insurance business has developed into one of the largest in the UK providing: 6.4 million customers' with Life, Pension and Investment (LP&I) products; home insurance to 4.3 million families; managing 43,000 pension funds; 2 million individual pensions and annuities; and support to customers by dealing with 320,000 household insurance claims in a simple and speedy fashion.

We deliver all these with a strong heritage of protecting what our customers' value and helping them to plan for a prosperous future. As an integral part of the Group we're focused on delivering the shared visions of becoming the best bank for our customers, communities and colleagues through a broad range of Insurance products and services.

To deliver against our commitment, an exciting opportunity for a Lead Project Manager has arisen within the Finance Change Portfolio within COO Business Change, Insurance.

Finance change is responsible for delivering the change agenda on behalf of the Finance function, and works on projects aimed at enhancing our Finance systems, organisation and business processes. You will be working with Finance subject matter experts and various teams to implement a successful delivery.

The sheer pace and scale of change taking place across our business means there couldn't be a more exciting time to join us and help build the best bank for our customers. Can you:-

- Direct and control the delivery of diverse cross functional projects?

- Shape and lead major change initiatives which implement business strategies?

- Optimise resources within projects to ensure delivery to agreed business plans within cost, quality and timescale objectives?

- Ensure that the benefits identified in the business case can be realised.

- Lead a team of project professionals as a high performing project team?

If so, then you'll never be short of a new challenge.

You'll be responsible for everything from building relationships with stakeholders and agreeing project milestones to controlling budgets and managing risks to deliver projects successfully.

Succeed here and you can look forward to taking the next step up the career ladder or broadening your experience across even bigger and more complex change project and programmes.

Previous Finance change and project management experience is essential, along with experience of working with financial systems in a financial institution. Knowledge of Finance Risk and Treasury is advantageous.

You will have business change experience and ambitions in driving transformation and benefit realisation, operating with speed, simplicity and trust.

To qualify, you'll ideally be supported by qualification such as APM or similar methodology

In return we offer the excellent opportunities and benefits you'd expect from the UK's largest bank.

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