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Senior Assurance Manager: Finance and Trust - 12 month FTC
Join our journey to create a new experience for the National Lottery and help us to power change for the greater good.
About us:
We are Allwyn UK, part of the Allwyn Entertainment Group - a multi-national lottery operator with a market-leading presence in Austria, the Czech Republic, Greece, Cyprus and Italy. In the UK we are the operator of the National Lottery with a 10 year licence that started in February 2024.
We've developed ground-breaking technologies, built player protection frameworks, and have a proven track record of making lotteries better. Our aim is to create one of the UK's most inclusive organisations - where people can bring the best of themselves, to do their best work, every day, for the benefit of good causes.
While the main contribution of the National Lottery to society is through the funds to good causes, at Allwyn we put our purpose and values at the heart of everything we do. Join us as we embark on a once-in-a-lifetime, largescale transformation journey to build a bigger, better, and safer National Lottery that delivers more money to good causes.
Role Purpose:
Allwyn operates a Three Lines of defence model.
• First line: Functional Management & Staff,
• Second line: Functional and Central Compliance and Risk & Assurance,
• Third Line: Internal Audit.
You will be part of the second-line Finance and Trust functional assurance and compliance team working very closely with the Finance Function management and staff. The Finance and Trust function includes:
• Trust and Gaming,
• Treasury,
• Finance Operations,
• Commercial Finance,
• Strategy and Insight,
• Financial Accounting,
• Procurement and
• Tax
You will also have a dotted line into the Head of Enterprise Risk & Oversight whilst also engaging with the Internal audit team and wider central Assurance function to enable an aligned and integrated assurance
approach.
The primary responsibilities of the Finance and Trust Assurance and Compliance team is to evolve and further strengthen the Assurance framework for Finance and Trust and to implement and report on, the effective monitoring controls and procedures in place.
The evolution of the Assurance framework is pertinent as Allwyn is currently a significant way through a transformation programme. Therefore, the ability to build strong relationships, create robust plans and gain stakeholder buy-in at all levels is key to ensuring that the Assurance framework is current and always fit for purpose which underpins the way we operate in Finance, Trust and Allwyn. We strive to be best in class.
This is a management leadership role within the organisation, and as such you will be required to also communicate articulately and succinctly to senior stakeholders on the effectiveness of the assurance activities across Trust and Finance through preparation of monthly reports, regular progress reports (including remediations) and KPI dashboards.
Role Responsibilities:
• A team of four including an Assurance Manager, two Assurance Analysts and a graduate trainee. Strong leadership and management skills are required to ensure that the team are fully engaged to deliver the business goals.
• Lead and embed the Assurance, Compliance and Risk frameworks and objectives across Finance and Trust with particular focus on enhancing risk management, Controls activity, real time compliance, governance, outcomes and monitoring activities.
• Support the Finance Director and wider Finance team to ensure the effective implementation, execution and monitoring of the wider National Lottery licence conditions, Matters to be protected, Trust Deed and Fund Protection policies. This includes managing the Funds Protection Forum ensuring that it best governs this area.
• In relation to the above, ensure that Finance is operating within agreed risk appetites whilst complying with legal and regulatory requirements.
* To provide assurance through regular reporting, updates, KPI's and dashboards to the Finance Director and CFO and his reports, and various Governance committees, on the effectiveness of Allwyn's control environment with respect to all areas of responsibility of the Finance function.
• Evolve, enhance and monitor Finance's self-assessment control framework and risk register and identify areas for continuous improvement.
• To ensure that the strategies, policies and procedures for Finance are fit for purpose, regularly reviewed and challenged and subject to appropriate governance especially in the period of change.
* To act as the primary interface between the Finance function and the central Assurance function (Risk, Compliance, Governance, Regulatory affairs).
Key Measures of Success:
• Operating with integrity and staying independent
• Assurance activities are supported by adequate documentation, peer reviews and quality checks.
• Finance team risk register is up to date and has appropriate sign off as scheduled
• Finance team self-assessment activity is up to date and completed as scheduled
• Delivery of activity to support Outcomes Based Decision Making (OBDM) and wider business assurance requirements
• Funds Protection Forum is governed and managed in line with best practice
• No surprises - all assurance activities, plans and projects are communicated clearly and in a timely manner with effective progress tracking and risk monitoring.
• Controls, compliance and assurance culture is embedded in the psyche of finance colleagues
Company
Our vision is to grow the National Lottery responsibly, making itbigger,betterandsafer for all, with more to good causes.
Bigger because we will significantly increase Good Causes contributions by the end of the Fourth Licence through responsible growth of people playing.
Better because we will modernise technology and operations, refresh games and support shops while improving the use of data and digital.
Safer because participant protection underpins everything we do.
What is unique about us?
Our preparations to transform the National Lottery will be a once-in-a-lifetime type of project in the lottery industry, anywhere in the world. Join our journey to create a new experience for the National Lottery and help us to power change for the greater good.
Our approach
In Allwyn, the National Lottery will have an operator that has social value at its heart. We will raise more funding for Good Causes, while running our own business in an environmentally and socially responsible way. That’s why we have committed to an ambitious Social Value framework, which is woven into the way we do business. We believe that lotteries must serve everyone across society, not just those who play. So whether as an employee, a supplier, a retailer or any of the stakeholders that we interact with, we will be powering good across the UK.
Our goal is to create one of the UK’s most inclusive organisations – where people can bring the best of themselves, to do their best work, every day, for the benefit of good causes.
We are working to make the National Lottery truly accessible in a safe way, whether as a player, a retailer or an employee. We are proud to have been a partner with Purple since 2021 to support our work to embed accessibility into everything we do. Purple has carried out an accessibility audit on our office in Watford, is working with us to have truly inclusive workplace policies, and we have exciting plans to do so much more to make our games, both in-store and online, safely accessible.
Come and help us shape what the future of the National Lottery could look like.
Media Clips
“I became an amputee in 2021 and I struggled to find my place back in the working world until Allwyn welcomed me with open arms. They have always focused on what I bring to the table and it is apparent that my disability is not what defines me within the company, but my skill. Allwyn has a noticeable strong focus on accessibility and inclusion, which makes me feel seen and like I have found a permanent home for my career.”Lorna Jeanes, Transition Co-ordinator.
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