Finance Controls Manager

Business Unit: Group Finance
Salary Range: £47,200 - £59,000 per annum DOE + red-hot benefits
Location: UK Hybrid – Occasional travel to local hub – Glasgow, Gosforth, Leeds, London
Contract Type: Permanent

Our Team

The Internal Controls over Financial Reporting (ICFR) team sit within Financial Control and play a key role in providing support to Finance in embedding a strong risk management culture and in overseeing the ‘first line of defence’ on its execution of its responsibilities. This is a great time to join as we further develop risk and control capability within Finance.

What you’ll be doing

• Providing support to teams across Finance to ensure that the financial reporting control framework is appropriate, documented, and assessed to the required standards
• Assisting in the ongoing development and delivery of a robust testing framework which ensures management attention is focussed upon achieving required standards, identifying when there is a need to improve overall control in response to identified risks, monitoring management responses to reports and ensuring that all appropriate actions are being taken
• Planning and performing the testing of the reporting controls landscape ensuring processes are documented to a high standard, key controls are identified and then tested   enabling reperformance as required
• Ensuring that approved assurance and review activities are captured in line with the team’s methodology
• Delivering the planned assurance coverage to a recognised professional standard and demonstrating accountability for delivery and quality of assignments

We need you to have

• External audit, internal audit and/or risk management experience
• Experience in report writing and analysis
• Track record of delivering an enhanced control environment and robust reporting
• Substantial experience managing all levels of stakeholders, in particular senior stakeholders

It’s a bonus if you have but not essential

• ICAS or equivalent 3+ years Post qualified
• Experience of financial reporting controls
• Experience of end-to-end process mapping
• Experience of controls testing in either internal audit, external audit or 1st line control teams

Red Hot Rewards

• Generous holidays - 38.5 days annual leave (including bank holidays and prorated if part-time)​ plus the option to buy more.
• Up to five extra paid well-being days per year​. 
• 20 weeks paid, gender-neutral family leave (52 weeks in total) for expectant parents and those looking to adopt. 
• Market-leading pension.
• Free private medical cover, income protection and life assurance.
• Flexible benefits include Cycle to Work, wellness and health assessments, and critical illness. 

And there's no waiting around, you'll enjoy these benefits from day one.

Feeling insatiably curious about this role? If we’re lucky to receive a lot of interest, we may close the advert early and would hate you to miss out.

We're all about helping you Live a Life More Virgin, so happy to talk flexible working with you.

Say hello to Virgin Money
We’re making great strides towards achieving our ambition of becoming the UK’s best digital bank.  As a full-service digital bank with a heritage stretching back over 180 years, we`re a workforce to be reckoned with.  We're putting the full power of our experience behind disruptive ideas that reinvent the role a bank plays in people's lives. We're customer obsessed and work tirelessly to create positive experiences for our millions of customers and deliver on our purpose, ‘Making You Happier About Money.’ Our customer centric culture means that we're able to do banking differently and by innovating and working together we can make a real difference. Join us and Live a Life More Virgin that empowers you with choice and flexibility in how you work.

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As a Disability Confident Leader, we're committed to removing any obstacles to inclusion.  If you need any reasonable adjustments or support making your application, contact our Talent Acquisition team careers@virginmoney.com

Now the legal bit
Living A Life More Virgin allows our colleagues to be based anywhere in the UK (if the role allows it), but we'll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK.

If you're successful in securing a role with us, there are some checks you need to complete before starting. These include credit and criminal record checks and three years' worth of satisfactory references. If the role is part of the Senior Manager Regime and Certification Regime, it requires enhanced pre-employment checks – we'll ask for six years of regulatory references, and once in the role, you'll be subject to periodic employment checks.