Reconciliations Analyst

Job Title: Reconciliations Analyst

Location: Lloyds Banking Group, 110 St Vincent Street, Glasgow

Hybrid Working: 2 days per week in the office following successful completion of training

Hourly Pay Rate: £14.40

Contract: 6-Month Temporary Assignment with potential for progression

Working Hours: Monday to Friday between 8:00am and 6:00pm (35 hours per week)

Training: First 8 weeks fully office-based (may be extended depending on business requirements)

Join One of the UK's Leading Financial Services Organisations

We're recruiting on behalf of Lloyds Banking Group for a fantastic opportunity within their Payment Operations team. If you have a background in finance administration, banking operations, reconciliations, payments, or high-volume processing and enjoy investigating issues, working with data, and delivering accurate results, this could be the ideal next step in your career.

This role offers the opportunity to gain valuable experience within a major banking environment, develop your operational and analytical skills, and work within a supportive team where accuracy, problem-solving, and attention to detail are highly valued.

What You'll Be Doing:

Working within a fast-paced operational team, you'll play a vital role in ensuring payment and account reconciliation activities are completed accurately and efficiently.

Key responsibilities will include:

Reconciling payment accounts and financial transactions.
Investigating missing, unmatched, or incorrect payments.
Identifying and resolving discrepancies through detailed analysis.
Working closely with internal stakeholders to resolve issues.
Maintaining accurate records and ensuring compliance requirements are met.
Managing high volumes of work while meeting service level agreements and deadlines.
Escalating risks, recurring issues, and opportunities for process improvement.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys detail-focused work and takes satisfaction from identifying and resolving complex issues.

What We're Looking For:

We're interested in speaking with candidates who have experience in:

Reconciliations
Payments processing
Banking operations
Finance administration
Accounts administration
Cash management
Transaction processing
Audit or financial control environments
High-volume administrative or operational rolesWe would also love to hear from candidates with transferable experience from finance, auditing, or data-driven administration roles.

Skills & Experience:

Successful candidates will demonstrate:

✅ Strong attention to detail and accuracy

✅ Excellent Excel and Microsoft Office skills

✅ Analytical thinking and problem-solving capability

✅ Ability to investigate issues and identify root causes

✅ Experience managing high volumes of work

✅ Strong organisation and prioritisation skills

✅ Confidence working to deadlines and SLAs

✅ Ownership, accountability, and a proactive approach

✅ Effective communication skills when working with internal stakeholders

Previous experience within banking, branch banking, telephone banking, financial services, finance administration, or audit environments would be highly advantageous.

Why Apply?

Opportunity to work for a leading UK banking organisation.
Competitive hourly rate of £14.40 per hour.
Hybrid working available following training.
Exposure to a highly regulated financial services environment.
Valuable experience within payments and banking operations.
Potential opportunities for future career progression.

About working for Lloyds Banking Group:

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We're committed to creating a consciously inclusive workplace where our colleagues can be themselves, thrive and perform at their best.

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.

As an inclusive employer, we offer Workplace Adjustments for colleagues with a disability (which may include long-term health and neurodivergent conditions) where it is reasonable to do so. This could include flexibility with regards to office attendance, location, and working pattern. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. If you have a disability, you can also apply via our Disability Confident Scheme (DCS). Through the DCS, we guarantee to interview a fair and proportionate number of applicants with a disability, whose application meets the minimum criteria for the advertised job role. We also provide adjustments that are reasonable throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers for applicants with a disability, long-term health condition or neurodivergent condition. If you'd like an adjustment to the recruitment process just let us know.

Joining our client's dynamic and collaborative team will mean you are part of one of the UKs largest banking groups, and supported by a diverse and forward-thinking organisation.

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