Technology Risk and Controls Enablement Manager

Cardiff Full-time IT & Change

Company Description

Legal & General (L&G) is a leading UK financial services group and major global investor. We have been safeguarding people's financial futures since 1836, and strive to build a better society, while improving the lives of our customers and creating value for shareholders. We are one of the world's largest asset managers and provide powerful asset origination capabilities. Together, these underpin our retirement and protection solutions: we are an international player in pension risk transfer, in UK and US life insurance, and in UK workplace pensions and retirement income. Our Group Functions provide the services that all areas of the business need. This requires a talented and diverse team behind the scenes, who enable everyone at L&G to do what they do best. Joining us means helping to improve the lives of our customers and contributing to the success of the business every day.

Job Description

We are recruiting for a Technology Risk and Controls Enablement Manager to join us. The Technology Risk and Controls Enablement Manager leads the implementation and coordination of risk enablement activities across the first line. The role oversees governance, policies, reporting and tooling, delivering scalable services to ensure consistency and continuous improvement. It also drives automation of repeatable tasks and ensures timely, accurate data to support fast, informed decision-making.

What you'll be doing:

• Managing the development and rollout of tooling, training and guidance for technology risk and control teams to ensure consistent understanding and effective execution of responsibilities.
• Managing the adequacy, simplification and automation of technology controls to ensure they are efficient, effective, sustainable and enhance flow.
• Supporting the integration and adoption of technology risk and control platforms, workflows and tooling to ensure activities are evidenced, auditable, continuously improved and effectively support control owners.
• Managing the development and delivery of training sessions, playbooks and knowledge articles for technology risk and control owners to strengthen risk culture and uplift confidence in technology risk management across L&G.
• Managing the development, review and maintenance of technology risk-related policies and standards to ensure they remain current, aligned with regulatory expectations and actionable across L&G, including completing the annual Risk Management Internal Control Framework compliance review.
• Maintaining up-to-date knowledge of technology risk and control management practices, control frameworks and enablement approaches to ensure the function continues to innovate and deliver value across L&G.
• Providing SME support on IT and change initiatives with respect to delivering improvements to customer support and experience.
• Managing the team in accordance with the company's policies and procedures, including the Partnership Agreement, to ensure the team's business objectives are achieved consistently.

Qualifications

Who we're looking for:

• Strong familiarity with technology and security frameworks such as NIST Cyber Security Framework (CSF), COBIT, ISO27001/2 and COSO.
• Good understanding of regulatory requirements relevant to financial services (e.g. FCA/PRA regulations, UK GDPR, DORA).
• Experience in controls automation, risk frameworks, and data analytics across technology.
• Exposure to briefing to a wide range of audiences (including technical and non-technical at all levels of an organisation).
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Management experience in technology risks, governance or assurance within a complex, regulated environment.

Not essential based on role holder experience:

• Cyber security related qualifications such as CISM or CISSP.
• Technology risk and governance related qualifications such as CRISC, CGEIT or CISA.
• IT related qualifications such as ITIL.

Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer:

• The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan and valuable share schemes.
• Generous pension contribution.
• Life assurance.
• Healthcare Plan (permanent employees only).
• At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2 years' service. There's also the option to buy and sell holiday.
• Competitive family leave.
• Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice (permanent employees only).
• There are the many discounts we offer – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online.
• In 2023, some of our workspaces were redesigned. Our offices are great spaces to connect and collaborate and have your wellbeing at the heart.

Additional Information

At L&G, we believe it's possible to generate positive returns today while helping to build a better future for all. If you join us, you'll be part of a welcoming, inclusive culture, with opportunities to collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds, views, and experiences. Guided by leaders with integrity who care about your future and wellbeing. Empowered through initiatives which support people to develop their careers and excel. We care passionately about outcomes rather than attendance and are therefore open to discussing all kinds of flexible working options including part-time, term-time and job shares. Although some roles have limited flexibility due to customer demand, we accommodate requests when we can. It doesn't matter if you don't meet every single criterion in this advert. Instead, think about what you excel at and what else you can bring in terms of strengths, potential and connection to our purpose.