Controls Assurance Manager
Job Description:
Our client, a global investment management firm based in Edinburgh, is looking for a Controls Assurance Manager to join on an initial 6-month day rate contract.
The successful candidate will have a track record of successfully leading teams and projects, to establish a centralised control testing function.
Essential Skills/Experience:
- Internal control framework - experience of testing internal controls, in particular design effectiveness and operating effectiveness, control quality, and high-quality evidencing standards
- Global approach - although the primary focus will be UK, many processes and controls operate across the global business and therefore experience of operating across a global business is desirable.
- Interpersonal skills - deliver with quality and impact in a proactive and collaborative manner
- Impact and influence - operates with intellectual curiosity to understand and surface insights that helps strengthen the design and operation of the internal control framework
- Collaboration - outcome focussed with ability to facilitate collaborative working within and across teams
- Communication - ability to communicate effectively with the team, and within stakeholder meetings
- Attention to detail - works with precision to deliver requirements
Core Responsibilities:
- Reviewing testing of the design and operating effectiveness of controls; and managing reporting of results with key stakeholders into the business.
- Overseeing a team of control testers to deliver high-quality testing across the company control environment.
- Working collegiately with the wider assurance team, providing training and best practice guidance, supporting overall team activities, supporting deliverables, and assisting with other risk and control related activities as required.
- Where controls are identified as ineffective or require improvement, work collaboratively with business leads to agree testing results.
Core-Asset Consulting is an equal opportunities recruiter and we welcome applications from everyone irrespective of age, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, race, colour, ethnic or national origin, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital/civil partner status or pregnancy.
Job reference: 16117
To apply for this vacancy applicants must be eligible to work in the UK in accordance with the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006.
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INDCAS
- Start: ASAP
- Duration: 6 Months
- Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
- Type: Contract
- Industry: Finance
- Recruiter: Core-Asset Consulting Ltd
- Contact: Christopher Wright
- Tel: 0131 264 0260
- Email: to view click here
- Posted: 2025-06-04 17:11:26 -
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