Chief Controls Testing Manager 12 Month FTC in Somerset

Location: Bristol, Edinburgh, Halifax, Manchester, Leeds

End Date: Wednesday 27 May 2026

Salary Range: £65,385 - £79,915

Hours: Full-time (35 hours per week)

Working Pattern: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time.

Benefits: We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, including:

• Up to 15% pension contribution
• Annual bonus based on Group performance
• Share schemes including free shares
• 28 days’ holiday plus bank holidays
• Flexible benefits tailored to your lifestyle
• Generous parental leave and wellbeing support

What You’ll Be Doing: Our Chief Controls office is a core part of the Group COO Chief Operating Office; a team where our colleagues are valued and supported to become experts in what they do and grow their careers. We want colleagues to feel connected to our Group strategy and understand how their role fits into it helping Group COO deliver its objectives safely. Most of all, we want to be a team that is inclusive, where we collaborate, break down silos and use our networks to collectively solve problems. The Chief Controls Office is key in driving the transformation of the GCOO’s control environment as mandated through the group-wide Resetting Risk Management Programme. This includes delivering an effective and robust control framework, providing assurance on the Group COO's control environment, and offering SME insights into remediation, ongoing compliance, and continuous improvement. We are looking for a Chief Controls Testing Manager to join us for a 12 month secondment, to provide insightful, high‑quality analysis and testing of the SOX IT control environment in alignment with the Group’s Enterprise Risk Management and SOX Frameworks.

What We’re Looking For:

• Has existing deep operational expertise aligned to ITGC SoX in‑scope applications and infrastructure testing.
• Experience of data‑led control management and the practical implementation.
• Examples of strong organisational skills to manage the preparation of documentation that includes summarising data and information to produce and maintain standardised risk and control process maps.
• Ability to understand and assimilate different sources of data and complex information to support with effective problem solving that leads to relevant conclusions and recommendations.
• Experience of leveraging strong analytical skills to assess control environment effectiveness, using a wide range of information and sources to identify potential impacts on the business.
• Demonstrate leadership in control testing activity to enable the production of concise reporting outputs on the effectiveness and performance of controls and compliance.
• Innovate to go faster by taking responsibility for challenging existing testing techniques; being an early adopter of change and viewing advancements in technology as opportunities to help us deliver for our customers.
• Inspire others by building rapport and gaining commitment through strong personal identity.
• Embracing diverse viewpoints; demonstrated in the way you do business and collaborate with others.
• Demonstrate a growth learning mindset and is open to new experiences to grow your individual and team skill.

This is the Place For You: Our focus is to ensure we’re inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. We’re disability confident, so if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.