Technology Controls Assurance Manager
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Serving our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day.
S alary - Between £43,680 - £60,000 annual bonus & benefits
Location - Edinburgh, Glasgow or Newcastle - Permanent
Office Attendance - Our roles are hybrid; however, you should be able to travel to our Edinburgh office 2 days per week for this position.
Closing Date - Applications close 22nd November at 5pm
A bank with a little more heart
We're looking for a Technology Controls Assurance Manager to join our Technology Business Services Controls team at Tesco Bank, part of Barclays Bank Plc.
Our team is transforming and maturing the Technology Risk and Control framework within Tesco Bank. The purpose of Technology Controls is to provide Controls and Risk Management leadership enabling colleagues to make the right decision.
You'll provide oversight of the Technology Controls Library, supporting our key stakeholders by providing expert guidance based on analytical outcomes and insight surrounding the operation of the control environment, ultimately supporting the evolution and maturity of the risk and control profile.
What you'll be doing
• Own, co-ordinate and operate a variety of control oversight activities including, the delivery of scheme attestations and annual control testing schedule.
• Research, transform and improve on existing practices.
• Coordinate and drive responses to attestation and Due Diligence requirements
• Provide consultancy and expertise on Control Design and Operating practices.
• Inform and support key stakeholders to make risk-based decisions.
• Actively participate in prescribed Learning and Development plans to maintain and grow expertise.
We need you to have
• Communicates at an advanced level and can positively challenge and enable Key Stakeholders in discharging their accountabilities in relation to Risk Management.
• Works under own initiative to plan, organise, prioritise, and oversee activities to efficiently meet business objectives.
• Works under own initiative to monitor, interpret and understand policies and procedures, while making sure they match organisational strategies and objectives.
• Explore the depth and breadth of a problem, draw out the implications of not changing, and help clients self-discover and articulate the value of a solution. Seeks to understand the client's situation, explores client problems and solutions, and can design solutions for resolution.
• Identifies, assesses, prioritises, and manages risk.
• Works at an intermediate level to analyse potential solutions and create recommendations based on the expected benefits, costs, and overall value of the solution for key stakeholders. Typically works with guidance.
• Works at an advanced level to understand business context, needs, rules, and architecture, as well as organisational structure.
• Experience in assurance activity (including control testing) of key controls.
• Review, assessment, and remediation of access management related controls.
• Experience of cyber related risks and issues (leveraging NIST framework).
• Practiced in policy, standards and process reviews and adherence of first line of defence teams to these.
And if you have any of these, even better
• Ideally (but not essential) you'll hold a relevant or equivalent ISACA qualification (CISM, CRISC, CISA, CISSP) or be willing to work towards this.
We don't expect you to tick every box, and if you feel you hit most of the brief, it's worth exploring to further develop your career here with us.
What's in it for you
• Prepare for your retirement with our colleague pension scheme.
• Private Medical Insurance (WL2+) and virtual GP Service 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 training, to help you achieve the job and career you want.
Everyone's welcome
We want all our colleagues to always feel welcome and be themselves at Tesco Bank, part of Barclays Bank UK Plc. 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.
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.