Control Testing Specialist
Job ID: 010243
Location: Leeds, UK, LS1 8EQ
Job type: Permanent - Full Time
Salary: Up to £35,000 Dependent upon Experience + Bonus & Benefits
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Are you passionate about building a strong risk culture? We are seeking a technical expert in risk and control testing to perform control testing activities within our First Line Controls Centre of Excellence. This role will focus on evaluating and strengthening our control environment across operational risk, change risk, and conduct risk areas.
Your role will be crucial in ensuring that risks are managed effectively and remain within our risk appetite. You’ll be responsible for performing control testing activities and supporting the business in developing and enhancing its approach to risk and controls.
About the Role
- Perform Independent Control Testing: Evaluate the effectiveness of our control environment through independent testing of our material and key controls.
- Identify Root Causes and Support Action Plans: Help identify root causes of control weaknesses or failures and support the development of appropriate remediation actions.
- Collaborate with Stakeholders: Work closely with colleagues and senior managers to identify systemic issues and develop practical improvements.
- Enhance the Control Environment: Provide insight and recommendations to strengthen and mature the control framework, supporting continuous improvement across the business.
About You
- Experience in Risk Areas: You will have experience in one or more of the following areas, and experience across multiple areas would be advantageous:
- Operational risk (e.g. IT, cyber security, data, AI, business continuity, payments, health and safety, financial crime, third-party risk management),
- Change risk (e.g. project and programme initiation, design, delivery, implementation).
- Conduct risk (e.g. product & services design, marketing & sales suitability, customer support, vulnerable customers, complaints & redress).
- Control Testing Expertise: Experience performing control testing independently, including tests of design, implementation, and operating effectiveness.
- Understanding of Risk Management: Good understanding of risk management concepts and control frameworks within a financial services environment.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Comfortable working with stakeholders, including Senior Manager level, to discuss practical findings and improvements.
- Organisation and Flexibility: Able to manage multiple pieces of work simultaneously while maintaining quality and meeting deadlines.
About Our Benefits
Everyone’s different. That’s why we offer a wide range of benefits and rewards that we think you’ll love – whatever’s important to you, and whatever stage of life you’re at. Such as…
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Our pension scheme (where you can get up to 11% from us)
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On target bonus of 7% (with the opportunity to earn up to a maximum 15%)
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Access to brilliant health benefits
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Life assurance at 6 times your salary
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25 days’ holiday (and the option to buy more)
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Cycle to work or an interest-free loan for an annual ticket
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Wellbeing resources and tools
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Retail and Leisure discounts
Learning & Development
Everyone can build a career path they love here. And that’s because we offer a wide range of programmes, opportunities and more to help you learn, grow, and develop – and reach your full potential.
These include...
- Personal Growth Toolkits - a range of materials that help you discover your strengths, identify your goals, and your next steps.
- Secondment and Stretch opportunities – helping you gain experience in different areas of our business and new ways of working.
- Learning Champion Network – opportunities to work outside of your immediate area and build new skills.
- Apprenticeships and Professional Qualifications – a range of brilliant apprenticeships and programmes available to everyone.
- REACH Diverse Leadership Programme – helping our Black, Asian and Ethnically Diverse leaders progress into senior leadership roles.
Our Colleague Networks & Groups
Our Vision is to be a leading organisation that embraces diversity, champions equity, and creates an inclusive environment where all individuals regardless of their background or identity feel valued, empowered and supported.
Our Colleague Networks and Groups are designed to amplify the voices of diverse groups and provide a structured route to effect real change. They provide a safe space and use colleague feedback to support the progression of our DEI Strategy. Our eight networks and groups are:
Community and Charity
Ever since we started back in 1864, we’ve had a clear purpose – to do some good in our communities through helping people keep their savings safe. And helping everyone have a place to call home. Today, that purpose is still a huge part of who we are. And every one of our colleagues helps that happen.
We’re committed to volunteering our time, resources, skills and knowledge – more than 50% of colleagues contribute to thousands of volunteer hours every year. And our Charitable Foundation has now donated over £9 million to charities and good causes across the country.
Our ways of working
We know there’s no single right way of working that fits everyone. That’s why we’re not trying to find one. Instead, we’re doing everything we can to make sure that when we’re working flexibly, together and apart, we’re working at our best. And help our colleagues get the most out of work, and take care of themselves, wherever they’re working.
Whether you’re in an office-based team or your team is spread across the country, you’ll have lots of chances to get together with your colleagues for those Moments that Matter – which are all about building wonderful relationships and strong bonds with your colleagues.
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