End Date: Monday 18 November 2024
Salary Range: £62,874 - £69,860
Flexible Working Options: Hybrid Working, Job Share, Reduced Hours
Job Description
JOB TITLE: Assurance Manager - Finance Chief Control Office
SALARY: £62,874 - £69,860
LOCATION(S): Bristol or Edinburgh
HOURS: Full time
WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in one of the above offices
About this opportunity
An opportunity has arisen to join the newly formed Finance Control Office within Group Finance Risk. We are a team of around 50 colleagues within Central Finance who provide guidance to our finance teams in the application of the Group Risk Management Framework. We are also responsible for providing Assurance over Group wide Financial Reporting processes.
The role provides a perfect opportunity to use your expertise and natural desire for change to help evolve our approach to assurance, including the use of digital tools to support the delivery of our SOX testing.
As a Manager within the Control office, you will help support our drive to strengthen our wider financial control environment and also provide support on risk and control matters across the end-to-end business processes including Finance.
Day to day you’ll be:
* Playing a key role in the delivery of the Group’s SOX assurance testing programme.
* Using judgement to make assessments on allocated control testing assignments across a range of business areas and sharing business insights with the GFR team and wider Finance Risk Business Partners.
* Challenging existing approaches and build on the quality of our assurance processes, identifying, recommending, and delivering on areas for improvement, including through the use of technology.
* Actively participating in supporting the agenda on purpose, priorities, people and engagement within Group Finance Risk.
What you’ll need:
We’re looking for a risk professional, ideally with a qualification and experience in a related field (audit, risk management, accounting) or, alternatively, having gained expertise through experience in a related function along with:
* A passion for understanding risk and control, and delivery of SOX assurance testing, ideally in relation to financial services.
* Experience in delivery of insight, challenge and advice whilst building collaborative relationships across the Group.
* Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills to work with people at all levels to meet shared objectives.
* Ability to understand and assimilate different sources of data and complex information to effectively problem solve and make control assessments.
* Expertise in understanding Financial Reporting Risk with the skillset to challenge risk and control owners on the end-to-end management of risk within a Finance landscape.
And any experience of these would be really useful:
* Using technology enabled solutions to improve quality and efficiency of controls testing or other day to day activities.
* Understanding control environments related to IT business applications and infrastructure in financial services.
* Supporting control optimisation, testing and monitoring activities.
About working for us
Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, and build an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.
We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
* A generous pension contribution of up to 15%.
* An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance.
* Share schemes including free shares.
* Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping.
* 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top.
* A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies.
Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.
At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.
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