Job Type:  12 month Fixed Term Contract

Location: This role could be based in either our Birmingham, Telford, London or Edinburgh offices with time spent working in the office and at home.

Flexible working: All of our roles are open to part-time, job-share and other types of flexibility. We will discuss what is important to you and balancing this with business requirements during the recruitment process. 

Closing Date: 2nd May 2024

Salary and benefits: Up to £60,000 DOE plus 16% bonus up to 32%, private medical cover, 38 days annual leave, excellent pension, 12x salary life assurance, career breaks, income protection, 3x volunteering days and much more.

We have an incredible opportunity to join us here at Phoenix Group as a Finance Risk Assurance Manager in our Heritage and Finance Risk & Governance Team. 

Who are we?

We want to be the best place that any of our 7,400 colleagues have ever worked.

We’re the UK’s largest long-term savings and retirement business. We offer a range of products across our market-leading brands, Standard Life, SunLife, Phoenix Life and ReAssure. Around 1 in 5 people in the UK has a pension with us. We’re a FTSE 100 business that is tackling key issues such as transitioning our portfolio to net zero by 2050, and we’re not done yet.

The role 

Working independently as part of a collaborative team, you’ll support compliance with the Risk Management Framework across Finance and help maintain a robust control environment. You will support the Finance function to identify, measure and manage risks the Group and its customers are exposed to, while considering individual and wider exposures and dependencies. 

This role will play a key part in delivering our control assurance across the function and help shape the future of our testing plan. You'll plan, deliver and report on complex Line 1 assurance reviews to Senior Management, highlighting areas where risk is not managed within appetite and identify potential improvements. You'll also deliver Assurance Reviews to re-performance standards such that Lines 2 (Risk) and 3 (Internal Audit) can rely on them.  

You'll build close working relationships, gaining credibility and an appropriate level of influence in Finance. You will influence key stakeholders across the Group to drive positive risk outcomes and gain buy-in on risk management initiatives.

You'll also get the opportunity to organise and facilitate workshops and training sessions to promote a clear and consistent understanding of risk and promote discussion on risk issues and possible solutions within Finance.
 

What are we looking for?

You’ll have experience in either Risk, Assurance or Internal Audit based roles within financial services and a good understanding of Audit and Risk Management Frameworks, as well as Financial or Actuarial controls.

You’ll have excellent stakeholder management and communication skills. You’ll also be practical and organised with a can-do attitude.

Holding a relevant Risk or Audit related qualification, e.g. The Institute of Risk Management or Institute of Internal Audit would be advantageous but not essential.

We are also undertaking a review of our End User Computing framework and Standards and therefore any experience or knowledge of this area would be valuable!
 

We want to hire the whole version of you.

We are committed to ensuring that everyone feels accepted and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. If your experience looks different from what we’ve advertised and you believe that you can bring value to the role, we’d love to hear from you. 

 If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, please let us know so we can help you to be at your best. 

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