People & Places Control Testing Assistant Manager

End Date
Monday 06 May 2024
Salary Range
£42,120 - £46,800
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Flexible Working Options
Hybrid Working, Job Share
Job Description Summary
Here in the People & Places (P&P) Control Office, there is an exciting opportunity to be part of a new team focused on the P&P Control optimisation and automation Journey.
Job Description

• JOB TITLE:People &Places Control Testing Assistant Manager
• LOCATIONS: Halifax, Bristol, Edinburgh or Leeds
• SALARY: £42,120 - £46,800
• HOURS: Full Time
• WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an office site.

Here in the People & Places (P&P) Control Office, there is an exciting opportunity to be part of a new team passionate about the P&P Control optimisation and automation Journey.
This is a prominent role within a team of subject matter experts providing insightful analysis and evaluation of the P&P control environment and safeguarding the business. The role provides a real opportunity to identify inefficiencies and drive automation for an optimised control environment. In this role you’ll work with the control specialist leadership to support the delivery of this next phase of transformation for LBG.
We are looking for an individual who Innovates to go faster and takes ownership of challenging existing processes, being an early adopter of change and views technology advancements as opportunities to achieve better. Someone who Encourages others by building rapport and gaining dedication through strong personal identity and embraces diverse thinking and views. A person who demonstrates a growth learning approach and is open to new experiences to intentionally grow their individual and team skills. .
Key Accountabilities

• Supports the team with the P&P control automation journey, identifying existing opportunities for control automation, identifying control gaps and use control by design where applicable to drive automation.
• Support working collaboratively with our platform teams to craft, build, cost and deliver on the automation journey.
• Assist with the cascade of P&Ps automation review schedule and agreed methodology to appropriate partners. Support with the running of initial deep dives into identifying control automation within P&P.
• Support and liaise with a network of business partners to champion and progress control automation deep dives. Support with monitoring progression via a dashboard reportable into P&P Risk Committee
• Works with risk and control owner teams to help deliver against aligned customer, business and strategic outcomes and investigates questions related to the existing control environment.
• Analyse and assess control environment efficiency using a wide range of sources and identify potential impacts on the business.
• Support the development and implementation of the control strategy to monitor and test the design and operating effectiveness of the control environment across end-to-end business processes.
• Support the ongoing development of control tooling solutions to enable the optimisation and automation of the control environment.
• Support timely reporting on the efficiency and performance of controls and compliance through maintaining effective data quality (KCIs), completeness and accuracy of testing and monitoring activities.
• Assists in the management of actions on operational risk events and breaches following Risk & Control Self-Assessment (RCSA). Identifies issues and then suggests and implements improvements to control environment with guidance from senior colleagues.

What We Need From You
Control Practitioner - Experience with supporting control by design, implementing and monitoring control strategies and a strong ability to implement testing of control design and operating effectiveness of the control environment.
Data & Analytics - Ability to support the interpretation of different sources of data and sophisticated information to optimally problem solve and able to develop appropriate analytical processes for control performance reporting to make relevant conclusions and recommendations across the control environment.
Clear Reporting - Ability to support the creation of reporting on the performance and progression of automation, compliance and optimisation across the P&P control environment.
Great Influencing - Being able to support the team and operate across the business using effective communication to foster partnerships and work collaboratively with others to deliver shared objectives.
Control Automation & Optimisation - Experience in supporting the end-to-end mapping of processes and Identifying opportunities to automate and optimise control landscapes, agreement and delivery of embedding control by design.
About working for us
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 colleagues to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. We’re disability confident. So if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.
We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

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

Do you want to do outstanding work, that’s exciting and makes a difference to millions of people. Join our journey!
We're driven by a clear purpose; helping Britain prosper. Our colleagues are passionate about making a difference to customers, businesses and communities.
We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where everyone is able to make a real difference!
If you're excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We’d love to hear from you.
At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.
We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.
We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.