Senior CASS and Accounts Specialist

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JOB TITLE:  Senior CASS and Accounts Specialist.

SALARY: £40,800pa to £49,800pa plus the benefits listed below.

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. Colleagues with disabilities can be supported with workplace adjustments including hybrid working expectations in line with our Flexibility Works policy. 

Do you have CASS and reconciliations experience and enjoy building relationships with customers and colleagues and are looking for a career opportunity? Then there's a role here for you!   We are looking for an individual with a broad range of CASS (Client Assets Sourcebook), reconciliations and finance skills.

As a Senior CASS and Accounts Specialist, you’ll be:

• Undertaking complex CASS technical activities, including bank reconciliations, breach management, financial reporting processes and control activities in line with FCA CASS regulations.

• Investigating platform data to understand transactional activity. Interpreting data, drawing clear conclusions, identifying root cause analysis and recommending actions to reduce risk and strengthen controls.

• Providing technical guidance on a range of queries and primary supervision to a small group of colleagues performing junior professional tasks, supporting quality, consistency and effective issue resolution.

• Assisting with the planning of projects, scheduling of implementations, liaising with technical departments and wide range of internal and external stakeholders as required.

• Assisting senior colleagues, ensure that all work within the area is completed accurately and adheres to specified Group policies, processes and procedures and relevant external regulations where required.

Why Lloyds Banking Group?

We’re on an exciting journey and there couldn’t be a better time to join us. The investments we’re making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities, and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive.
  

What you’ll need 

• Practical application of CASS 6 & 7 rules, strong reconciliation experience, with the ability to investigate breaks, understand root causes and support timely resolution

• Understanding of Finance systems and processes, journals and knowledge of double entry

• Ability to analyse and interpret complex transactional data, identify themes or anomalies, assess wider impact and draw clear conclusions

• Strong attention to detail and confidence working accurately under pressure to meet tight deadlines.

• A proactive approach, with the confidence to take ownership, challenge where appropriate and escalate risks or issues early.

• Organisational and prioritisation skills and ability to work proactively without constant supervision and management oversight

• Ability to form relationships and communicate

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, 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 number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with 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 to make an impact? Apply today.

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.