Hybrid IT Assurance Manager, Finance Risk

at Lloyds Banking Group

• Job title: IT Assurance Manager, Finance Risk
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: £65,385 - £72,650 per year
• Degree requirement: Professional Certificate
• Tech skills: Python, SQL, VBA
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

About the role

• IT Assurance Manager for Group Finance Risk overseeing SOX compliance and controls. Engaging in internal and external change management while coaching team members.

Responsibilities

• Play a key role in delivering the Group’s IT SOX assurance programme
• Perform IT controls assurance, leading on specific control areas and business units
• Build and share understanding of the end-to-end SOX IT landscape
• Challenge 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; to deliver effective and efficient risk-based assurance
• Support & coach less experienced team members
• Share challenge and insight with partners across the Group, acting as a trusted advisor on areas of expertise
• Support Senior Managers on project management and delivery
• Actively participate in supporting our agenda on purpose, priorities, people and engagement

Requirements

• Ability to demonstrate and apply a thorough understanding of IT related risks and control
• Experience in delivery of insight, challenge and advice whilst building collaborative relationships across the Group
• Strong analytical skills to understand and analyse different sources of data and complex information, effectively problem solving and making control assessments
• Ability to challenge risk and control owners on the end-to-end management of risk within a Finance landscape
• Strong project management skills
• Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills to work with people at all levels to meet shared objectives
• Any experience in these areas would be really useful: IT SOX experience required
• Qualification in a related field (audit, risk management, accounting)
• Using technology enabled solutions to improve quality and efficiency of controls testing or other day to day activities
• Demonstrable experience in control and/or testing automation, including data analytics and programming languages (e.g. VBA, SQL or Python)
• Knowledge of SOX regulations, PCAOB requirements and SOC reporting

Benefits

• 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
• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies