Finance Chief Control Office Manager

JOB TITLE:  Finance Chief Control Office Manager 

SALARY: £67,023 - £74,470 

LOCATIONS:  Edinburgh, Bristol 

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. Colleagues with disabilities can be supported with workplace adjustments including hybrid working expectations in line with our Flexibility Works policy.  

What you’ll be doing 

This role sits within the Finance Chief Control Office (FCCO) and plays a key part in strengthening the non‑financial risk and control environment across Group Finance. The FCCO provides specialist risk and control expertise, enabling Finance to manage risk effectively, meet regulatory expectations, and deliver its strategic objectives safely. 

You’ll partner with our Group Finance colleagues, providing expertise to implement our risk strategy and ensure management can effectively discharge their accountabilities.  

There are always new issues to investigate and resolve, starting every single day with a desire to learn and improve is critical for success in role. 

Day to day you’ll be: 

• Partnering with key Finance stakeholders to oversight and challenge the Finance risk and control environment. 

• Supporting the review & challenge of the Finance risk and control environment, ensuring alignment to Group frameworks, policies, and risk appetite. 

• Critically reviewing and challenging the Finance Risk Profile, including risks, controls, issues, and action plans. 

• Managing relationships with risk and control owner teams and acting as their risk and control business partner 

• Providing guidance, review and challenge to process and control owners in the application of the Risk Management framework for the Finance teams. 

• Leveraging insights and expertise to help risk and control owners to improve the control environment 

• Provide input to governance and committee reporting, including clear articulation of risk themes, emerging issues, and areas requiring management action. 

Why join us? 

We’re investing billions in our people, places and tech to change the way we meet the needs of our 28 million customers. We’re growing, and we’d love you to be part of the journey.  

What we’re looking for? 

• Finance risk and control awareness of Operational (Non-Financial) risk categories across accounting processes and systems, with the skills to challenge risk and control owners on the end-to-end management of risk. 

• Understanding of how Risk Management framework interlocks with Group Policy requirements in the context of Finance operationally, or can demonstrate where this experience has been held within a similar function / business area 

• Understanding of control management and the practical implementation across relevant business area with a record of leading control design, optimisation, automation, testing and monitoring activities. 

• Builds partnerships and works collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives at pace - working effectively with all other lines of defence and understands the different but complimentary roles. 

• Experience with Power Apps, or a strong willingness and aptitude to learn. 

And any experience of these would be great 

• Professional Finance qualification – ICAS (or equivalent), ACCA or CIMA

We know that great talent comes from many backgrounds. Whilst this job advert may reference specific years of experience, we recognise that skills are developed in many ways, so if you have relevant, transferable experience, we encourage you to apply. 

This is a place for you: 

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities, and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.  

 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.  

We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.  

 We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.  

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes: 

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15% 

• An annual performance-related bonus 

• 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 

Ready to do the best work of your career? Apply today.