Control Testing Senior Analyst

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Serving our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day.

Salary is from £38,000 + annual bonus & benefits

Location - Edinburgh /Glasgow / Newcastle: 12 month fixed term contract

Office Attendance - Our roles are hybrid, however you should be able to travel to your primary office, 2 days per week for this position.

Closing Date - Applications close on 5th July at 5pm

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Opportunity

This is an exciting opportunity for a passionate and driven individual to join the Controls 1st Line Risk Function in Tesco Bank. You will help drive a robust risk and control environment across our Banking Products, ensuring that risk is managed in line with our Risk Management Framework. You will play a pivotal role in setting a high standard of Risk and Control Management

Tesco Bank are currently recruiting for Control Testing Senior Analysts on 12 month fixed term contracts, who will conduct independent control testing for the Banking business and Centres of Expertise to support decision making and to help the business understand and manage their risk and control profile. Please note this role is known as Quality Assurance Senior Analyst Banking and Protect in Tesco Bank.

You'll be working closely alongside assurance and oversight colleagues as well as product stakeholders and have the opportunity to engage with a wide range of stakeholders from across the entire business. You'll have the opportunity to gain experience and develop within the role, as well as broader opportunities.

This role is known as Quality Assurance Senior Analyst Banking and Protect in Tesco Bank.

The Role

• Managing a portfolio of assurance and oversight assignments focussed on control testing, ensuring that the team plans and delivers assurance and oversight that cover identified risk areas and that appropriate corrective actions are agreed on with business owners.

• Helping resolve issues arising from assurance and oversight and referring serious or contentious issues to the accountable owner.

• Ensuring the organisation is not exposed to undue risks by using risk management systems to achieve specific goals within a designated area of the business.

• Providing specialist advice on the design and build of controls to efficiently mitigate risk.

• Contributing to stakeholder engagement through identifying stakeholders, finding out their needs/issues/concern and reacting to these by arranging meetings and events and drafting supporting materials to promote understanding and commitment.

We need you to have:

• Experience working with Risk Management Frameworks and undertaking independent controls testing.

• Good influencing skills - helping senior colleagues manage internal client and customer relationships by using relevant sales or client systems.

• Strong experience of keeping track of risk parameters and identifying any deviations.

• Solution-focused approach - ability to analyse specific problems and issues to find the best solutions.

• Good attention to detail, producing accurate, high-quality control testing results.

• Confident communicator with the ability to interact with stakeholders at all levels, building trust and gaining commitment through integrity, cooperation, and flexibility.

• Initiative-taking mindset with strong planning and time management skills.

And if you have any of these, even better

• Ability to prioritise your own workflow and ensure work is completed to the required standards of productivity, quality and timeliness; using performance management systems to improve personal performance.

• SOX testing experience is desirable.

• Ability to develop personal capabilities using existing formal and informal training opportunities, while also coaching others as required.

If you don't tick all the boxes but feel you have some of the relevant skills we're looking for, please apply and we're happy to have a conversation with you.

Fixed term contract: 12 months.

What's in it for you?

• Prepare for your retirement with our colleague pension scheme.

• Private Medical Insurance (WL2+) and virtual GP Service for you and your family 365 days a year.

• Performance related annual bonus.

• Indulge in a generous holiday allowance with a minimum of 7.2 weeks, with the opportunity to buy more.

• Embrace the benefits of our Colleague Clubcard, enjoy a 10% discount that increase to 15% every payday (worth up to 2K). As an added perk, we'll give you a second card to share with someone else.

• Benefit from our family-oriented initiatives, encompassing enhanced maternity leave pay, a shared parental leave policy, and a generous 8-week paid paternity leave.

• A place to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and award-winning training, to help you achieve the job and career you want.

• Take part in our Buy as you Earn and Save as your Earn share schemes.

Everyone's welcome

We want all our colleagues to always feel welcome and be themselves. We're committed to building a more inclusive workplace and celebrating everything that makes colleagues unique, and value the richness and diversity this brings to our business. A more diverse business helps us deliver on our purpose to serve our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day.

Additional Information

Role Alignment

Following the announcement regarding Tesco's' strategic partnership with Barclays, this role will support our banking business and will transfer to Barclay's UK towards the end of 2024, subject to regulatory approval. Please note, the transfer date may change.

Interviews

Interviews are expected to be held from 8th July 2024.

How to apply

We value our people and diverse teams and believe the variety of backgrounds and experiences make us stronger to achieve our goals.

Our colleagues are working hybrid, taking time to meet with colleagues in our offices for moments that matter, such as team catch ups, planning meetings and more. If you're interested in finding out more about what a career at Tesco Bank looks like, click apply to find out more!

Why Tesco Bank?

We're also a little obsessed with the future. Your future. Our future. That's why we take development seriously; we want to help you thrive and evolve in your career. Tesco Bank is a place to get on, all colleagues have access to LinkedIn Learning and Abstract, from day one.

It's important to us that we make sure you're supported by your team and colleague networks every day, celebrating when it matters and helping you to be the best version of yourself. The people make Tesco Bank, and we take pride in what we achieve together.

All that hard work? Come and see it turned into something real, usable, and important to customers' and colleagues' everyday lives. At Tesco Bank, our products make things a little better for everyone.