Assistant Manager - SOX and Risk Business Partner

LLOYDS BANKING GROUP; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 43,000 - 49,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading banking group is seeking an Assistant Manager for their SOX and Risk Business Partnering team in Edinburgh. This role involves coordinating risk assessments, supporting SOX assurance, and enhancing control environments. Candidates should have a strong accounting background and experience in finance risk management. The position offers a hybrid working model and a comprehensive benefits package.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution of up to 15%

Annual performance-related bonus

Share schemes including free shares

Discounted shopping benefits

28 days’ holiday plus bank holidays

Wellbeing initiatives and parental leave policies

Qualifications

• Strong accounting knowledge and professional qualification.
• Finance risk and control experience in financial reporting.
• Understanding of control management and practical implementation.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and plan risk and control assessments.
• Support SOX assurance and control testing plans.
• Identify opportunities for enhancing assurance approaches.

Skills

Accounting knowledge

Risk management

Control management

Collaboration

Education

Professional qualification in audit, risk management, or accounting

Job description

End date Tuesday 03 June 2025

Salary range £43,803 - £48,670

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Agile Working Options Job Share; Hybrid Working

Job description

JOB TITLE: Assistant Manager - SOX and Risk Business Partner

SALARY: £43,803 – £48,670

LOCATION: Edinburgh

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 our Edinburgh office

About this opportunity

Join the SOX & Risk Business Partnering team in Group Finance Support (GFS), where you’ll help ensure we meet our SOX and risk management responsibilities. You’ll work closely with finance stakeholders to support SOX assurance, RCSA processes, and strengthen our control environment.

This role, part of the Finance Chief Control Office, offers the chance to shape assurance practices, support control remediation, and explore smarter, tech-enabled solutions. You’ll also guide on risk matters across end-to-end processes as we continue to automate and improve financial controls.

As Assistant Manager, you’ll deliver control testing plans, build strong partnerships, and support continuous improvement in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

Day to day, you will:

• Helping to coordinate and plan risk and control assessments, mapping key processes and controls, and supporting remediation actions.
  
• Providing support and guidance to process and control owners in applying the Risk Management framework.
  
• Assisting in the coordination and delivery of all SOX & Risk Business Partnering activity and collaborating with key stakeholders across the GFS & finance teams.
  
• Supporting the delivery of control testing plans across the GFS control environment, identifying gaps and recommending improvements.
  
• Contributing to the oversight of control remediation activity, ensuring timely and effective resolution of issues.
  
• Identifying opportunities to enhance assurance approaches, including the use of automation, preventative controls, and improved data insights.
  

Why Lloyds Banking Group?

We’re on an exciting journey and there couldn’t be a better time to join us. The investments we’re making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities, and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive.

What you'll need:

• Strong accounting knowledge and recently qualified or working towards a Professional qualification in related field (audit, risk management, accounting)
  
• Finance risk and control experience in relation to financial reporting risk across accounting processes and systems, with the ability to challenge risk and control owners on the end-to-end management of risk.
  

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

• Ability to build partnerships and works collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.
  

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. 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. And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We’re disability confident. So if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

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

• 28 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

If you’re excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We’d love to hear from you.