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SalaryThursday 01 February 2024
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£80,206 - £94,360
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Job Description
JOB TITLE: SOx IT Control Testing Manager
SALARY: £80,206 to £94,360
LOCATION(S): Edinburgh, Birmingham, Bristol, Halifax, Manchester
HOURS: Full-time
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites.
About this opportunity
We love to do things differently in Risk Services! We encourage our colleagues to be ambitious, challenge existing practices and come up with new and innovative ideas.
We work in close collaboration with the business areas we support across the Group Chief Operating Office (GCOO) to understand applicable risks and regulation and help the business to manage them in a controlled manner - our key priority is to transform the bank in a safe and compliant way.
We're committed to achieving this vision through a clear focus on providing expert risk advice & guidance, creating and delivering an optimised control environment, investing in developing our people and exploring technology solutions to improve our effectiveness.
We’re looking for a Sarbanes Oxley (SOx) IT & Cyber Controls Testing Senior Manager, to lead the delivery of high quality and value adding testing and assessment activities related to IT General Computing Controls (GCCs), supporting the Group's SOx Management Assurance programme. You'll be responsible for enhancing the quality and effectiveness of technology risk and controls through leading a programme of control effectiveness testing activities.
As a Senior Manager, SOx IT ControlTesting,you’ll:
- Lead a team of experienced technology controls testing professionals and manage controls testing activities in areas such as Network Security, Access Management and Cloud Computing.
- Evaluate and assess the design and effectiveness of our IT SOx controls in remediating the associated risks in an accurate, complete and transparent way.
- Produce insights on testing outcomes, thematic findings and read-across opportunities.
- Transforming the approach to SOx testing and evolving in line with industry trends and automation.
- Create strong networks and define an engagement model to support with interlock with key stakeholders.
- Act as a role model for the testing team; create a positive learning culture and high-performing team through coaching/counselling junior team members to help them develop.
Why Lloyds Banking Group
If you think all banks are the same, you’d be wrong. We’re an innovative, fast-changing business that’s shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that’s empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose.
What you’ll need:
- A strong understanding of various Information Technology Assurance Frameworks (COBIT, ISO27001, ITIL, NIST etc.), regulatory requirements (GDP, BASEL, SOX, FCA, etc.), and current and emerging technology trends is essential.
- Relevant experience in the IT organisation of a financial institution or audit/consulting firm.
- Significant experience of testing SOx General Computing Controls and experience of managing and closing significant deficiencies.
- Strong experience in controls risk assessment and testing (IT and/or Business Processes) in Audit or Advisory.
- Sound understanding of the information technology risk and controls inherent in various technologies (e.g. Cloud, Agile, Mainframe) and related security standard methodologies.
- Experience in applying different Control Testing methodologies (e.g. CAAT, sampling) within assurance engagements (e.g. agreed upon procedures, integrated audits, SOC, SSAE, investigations, self-assessment, maturity assessment).
And any experience of these would be really useful:
- A recognised IT risk and control or audit qualification (e.g. CIA, CISA, CISM, CISSP, CRISC)
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 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.
And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.
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 bonus award, subject to Group performance
- Share schemes including free shares
- Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
- 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
- A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
This is a once in a career opportunity to help shape your future as well as ours.
Join us and grow with purpose..
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.
