Finance Controls Assurance Manager
Permanent
Location:
Edinburgh (typically 2 days in the office per week, 3 from home)
Salary:
A competitive salary from £46,000 - £69,000, depending on the experience you can bring
Closing date:
16th January 2025
Our team is focused on providing retirement, investment, and workplace savings to over 3.8 million customers. To do that, we work with financial advisers and employers to help improve people's financial wellbeing.
We help people live their best lives. We assist them with the big stuff, for the moments that matter: Pensions, Savings, Investments. At Aegon, we strive to create a diverse organization that plays a meaningful role in driving greater equity, inclusion, and belonging.
The Financial Controls team develops and delivers a significant element of the programme of work for the AEGON UK Sarbanes-Oxley attestation (SOx), providing oversight and assurance for the Finance function, which includes Actuarial, and assists with SII Model Validation requirements. In addition, the Financial Controls Team undertakes CASS oversight activities where required.
In this role, you will lead and perform a range of oversight and assurance activities compliant with the relevant regulation, Group methodologies, and practices. The focus will be on monitoring adherence and driving improvements to the controls over finance and business risks.
You will act as a pivotal link between Finance and business functions, liaising with process and control owners to deliver value through providing oversight and assurance by assessing the effectiveness of the design and operation of controls (and contributing to the development of improvements). The Finance Controls Assurance Manager must be able to use effective communication, knowledge, and insight to influence technical specialist process owners to agree on control requirements, test timetables, deficiencies, and remediation actions, which ultimately contribute to the SOx reporting to the AEGON UK Group Audit Committee.
We'd love to hear from you if you have: Experience of working within an accountancy, finance, risk, or internal audit function, ideally in a senior or managerial role Knowledge of Financial assurance, risk & controls Strong stakeholder management skills Understanding of assurance principles and techniques A knowledge of ESG controls & assurance would be desirable Financial Services experience would be beneficial, but not essential Experience of SOx, model validation, and controls testing would be desirable A Professional accountancy qualification, or working towards an accountancy qualification (CA, ACCA, CIMA), would be beneficial, but not essential. What's in it for you? A non-contributory pension between 8%-12% A discretionary bonus, depending on personal and company performance 34 days leave per year (including bank holidays, pro-rated for part-time) We also offer private medical cover, life assurance, critical illness cover, enhanced parental leave, and a variety of lifestyle benefits to help our employees live their best lives, including retail discount vouchers, cycle2work scheme, subsidised restaurant, and online GP appointments.
Sound good? You know what to do... click the "Apply" button and see where it can take you.
The legal bits We'll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK. If we offer you a job and you accept, there are some checks we need to complete before you can start with us. This will include a credit and criminal record check, as well as providing satisfactory references.
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Permanent
Location:
Edinburgh (typically 2 days in the office per week, 3 from home)
Salary:
A competitive salary from £46,000 - £69,000, depending on the experience you can bring
Closing date:
16th January 2025
Our team is focused on providing retirement, investment, and workplace savings to over 3.8 million customers. To do that, we work with financial advisers and employers to help improve people's financial wellbeing.
We help people live their best lives. We assist them with the big stuff, for the moments that matter: Pensions, Savings, Investments. At Aegon, we strive to create a diverse organization that plays a meaningful role in driving greater equity, inclusion, and belonging.
The Financial Controls team develops and delivers a significant element of the programme of work for the AEGON UK Sarbanes-Oxley attestation (SOx), providing oversight and assurance for the Finance function, which includes Actuarial, and assists with SII Model Validation requirements. In addition, the Financial Controls Team undertakes CASS oversight activities where required.
In this role, you will lead and perform a range of oversight and assurance activities compliant with the relevant regulation, Group methodologies, and practices. The focus will be on monitoring adherence and driving improvements to the controls over finance and business risks.
You will act as a pivotal link between Finance and business functions, liaising with process and control owners to deliver value through providing oversight and assurance by assessing the effectiveness of the design and operation of controls (and contributing to the development of improvements). The Finance Controls Assurance Manager must be able to use effective communication, knowledge, and insight to influence technical specialist process owners to agree on control requirements, test timetables, deficiencies, and remediation actions, which ultimately contribute to the SOx reporting to the AEGON UK Group Audit Committee.
We'd love to hear from you if you have: Experience of working within an accountancy, finance, risk, or internal audit function, ideally in a senior or managerial role Knowledge of Financial assurance, risk & controls Strong stakeholder management skills Understanding of assurance principles and techniques A knowledge of ESG controls & assurance would be desirable Financial Services experience would be beneficial, but not essential Experience of SOx, model validation, and controls testing would be desirable A Professional accountancy qualification, or working towards an accountancy qualification (CA, ACCA, CIMA), would be beneficial, but not essential. What's in it for you? A non-contributory pension between 8%-12% A discretionary bonus, depending on personal and company performance 34 days leave per year (including bank holidays, pro-rated for part-time) We also offer private medical cover, life assurance, critical illness cover, enhanced parental leave, and a variety of lifestyle benefits to help our employees live their best lives, including retail discount vouchers, cycle2work scheme, subsidised restaurant, and online GP appointments.
Sound good? You know what to do... click the "Apply" button and see where it can take you.
The legal bits We'll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK. If we offer you a job and you accept, there are some checks we need to complete before you can start with us. This will include a credit and criminal record check, as well as providing satisfactory references.
Apply
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