Hybrid Control Testing Manager – 12 month FTC

at Starling Bank

• Job title: Control Testing Manager – 12 month FTC
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Professional Certificate
• Location requirements: Hybrid, London, United Kingdom

About the role

• Finance Control Testing Manager overseeing risk management and control testing for finance function in a UK bank. Ensuring execution of internal controls and assisting Finance leadership with reporting.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver the quarterly Finance control testing plan.
• Scope and plan testing activities ensuring adequate coverage of key Finance processes.
• Manage the day to day execution of the testing plan by working with the Finance team control testers to ensure that it is completed on time and to a high standard.
• Provide training to control testers, providing guidance and robust quality assurance on their test scripts and testing outputs.
• Conduct walkthrough with process and control owners to confirm the accuracy of process documentation and assess the design effectiveness of key controls.
• Oversee (and where necessary, perform) detailed testing to assess the operating effectiveness of controls, ensuring test samples are appropriate and conclusions are sufficient and evidence based.
• Maintain the control register in the GRC, ensuring it accurately reflects the results of control testing.
• Document control weaknesses identified through testing.
• Collaborate with control owners to agree remediation plans.
• Manage the end to end lifecycle of control issues, tracking remediation plans to completion and performing re-testing to validate their effectiveness.
• Assist team in preparing reporting packs for Finance leadership, summarising testing results, key themes, control gaps and the status of remediation.

Requirements

• Qualified Accountant with experience working in a regulated environment, (Banking sector preferable).
• Experience in risk management, internal controls, internal audit, or external audit, preferably from Big 4. (Experience in Finance internal controls preferable e.g. internal controls over financial reporting)
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with ability to challenge constructively.
• Attention to detail.

Benefits

• 25 days holiday (plus take your public holiday allowance whenever works best for you)
• An extra day’s holiday for your birthday
• Annual leave is increased with length of service, and you can choose to buy or sell up to five extra days off
• 16 hours paid volunteering time a year
• Salary sacrifice, company enhanced pension scheme
• Life insurance at 4x your salary
• Private Medical Insurance with VitalityHealth including mental health support and cancer care. Partner benefits include discounts with Waitrose, Mr&Mrs Smith and Peloton
• Generous family-friendly policies
• Perkbox membership giving access to retail discounts, a wellness platform for physical and mental health, and weekly free and boosted perks
• Access to initiatives like Cycle to Work and Salary Sacrificed Gym partnerships