Digital Controls Tester

Hargreaves Lansdown PLC; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary annual bonus

25 days holiday

Hybrid working

Pension scheme 11%

Private medical insurance

Health care plans

Volunteering days

Job summary

Hargreaves Lansdown is seeking a Digital Controls Tester to strengthen technology risk controls. You will plan and execute testing using COBIT-aligned standards, produce evidence-rich reports, and collaborate with control owners to drive remediation.

Hybrid role in Bristol with opportunities to automate evidence collection and analytics, contributing to a data-led, continuous testing approach across critical platforms.

Qualifications

• Essential experience in technology risk, technology controls, control testing, IT audit, or a comparable risk and control environment.
• Understanding of technology change, service continuity, supplier technology risk and operational resilience.
• Knowledge of COBIT, or the ability to build this knowledge quickly, and how it can support control design, operation and maturity assessment.
• Strong analytical skills and professional judgement, with the ability to interrogate evidence, identify trends and reach balanced conclusions.
• Clear written and verbal communication, with confidence engaging technology specialists, control owners, risk colleagues and managers.
• Ability to provide constructive challenge and produce high-quality testing documentation, reports and management information.

Responsibilities

• Plan and deliver assigned activity from the technology control testing plan, managing walkthroughs, evidence requests, milestones and dependencies.
• Carry out risk-based testing across areas including access, change, incident, service continuity, resilience, suppliers, data centres and technology platforms.
• Assess control design and operating effectiveness using COBIT-aligned standards and HL’s risk management framework.
• Produce clear, concise and well-evidenced test scripts, working papers, findings and management information.
• Work constructively with control owners and colleagues to validate findings, understand root causes and agree proportionate remediation.
• Track issues and actions, review remediation evidence and elevate overdue or inadequate responses.
• Identify repeatable tests, reliable data sources and opportunities to automate evidence collection, analytics and continuous monitoring.
• Build your expertise in COBIT, technology risk, control testing, data analytics and automation, sharing good practice across the team.

Skills

Technology risk

Technology controls

Control testing

IT audit

Technology assurance

COBIT

Data analysis

Analytical thinking

Communication

Tools

COBIT

Job description

About the role

Join our Technology Controls Testing team and help strengthen the controls that support secure, resilient and well-governed technology services.

Using the COBIT framework, you will deliver risk-based assurance over key technology controls and provide clear, evidence-led insight into how effectively they are designed and operating.

This is an opportunity to work across major technology and transformation activity, while helping HL develop a more automated, data-led and continuous approach to control testing.

You will partner with control owners, Technology, Risk, Operational Resilience and programme teams to identify weaknesses, support proportionate remediation and improve control testability by design.

What you’ll be doing

• Plan and deliver assigned activity from the technology control testing plan, managing walkthroughs, evidence requests, milestones and dependencies.
• Carry out risk-based testing across areas including access, change, incident, service continuity, resilience, suppliers, data centres and technology platforms.
• Assess control design and operating effectiveness using COBIT-aligned standards and HL’s risk management framework.
• Produce clear, concise and well-evidenced test scripts, working papers, findings and management information.
• Work constructively with control owners and colleagues to validate findings, understand root causes and agree proportionate remediation.
• Track issues and actions, review remediation evidence and elevate overdue or inadequate responses.
• Identify repeatable tests, reliable data sources and opportunities to automate evidence collection, analytics and continuous monitoring.
• Build your expertise in COBIT, technology risk, control testing, data analytics and automation, sharing good practice across the team.

About you

Essential Experience in technology risk, technology controls, control testing, IT audit, technology assurance or a comparable risk and control environment.

Understanding of technology change, service continuity, supplier technology risk and operational resilience.

Knowledge of COBIT, or the ability to build this knowledge quickly, and how it can support control design, operation and maturity assessment.

Strong analytical skills and professional judgement, with the ability to interrogate evidence, identify trends and reach balanced conclusions.

Clear written and verbal communication, with confidence engaging technology specialists, control owners, risk colleagues and managers.

Ability to provide constructive challenge and produce high-quality testing documentation, reports and management information.

Desirable

Experience in data analysis, management information, control evidence management or the automation of control monitoring or testing.

Awareness of FCA expectations, operational resilience requirements and technology governance good practice.

Interview process

This will be a 2 stage process including a presentation

Working Schedule

The Digital Controls Tester role is a Permanent, full time, 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday.

Our office is based in Bristol, BS2 0TR.

Hybrid working is available with a blend of office and home working.

Why us?

Here at HL, we’re the UK’s number 1 investment platform for private investors, based in Bristol.

For more than 40 years we’ve helped investors save time, tax and money on their investments.

To achieve our mission, we believe we have a workplace like no other, with constant learning, dynamic teams and a great ethos.

We’re steered by core values that promote service, quality, innovation, and opportunity in everything we do.

What's on offer?

• Discretionary annual bonus* and annual pay review
• 25 days* holiday plus bank holidays and 1-day additional Christmas closure
• Option to purchase an additional 5 days holiday**
• Flexible working options available, including hybrid working
• Enhanced parental leave
• Pension scheme up to 11% employer contribution
• Income Protection and Life insurance (4 x salary core level of cover)
• Private medical insurance*
• Health care cash plans - including optical, dental, and outpatient care
• Health screening programme
• Help@hand - confidential support including mental health counselling and remote GP
• Wellhub - unlimited access to fitness providers and wellness coach sessions
• Variety of travel to work schemes with bike storage and shower facilities
• Inhouse barista and deli serving subsidised coffee and sandwiches
• Two paid volunteering days per year * dependant on role level
• ** only available to select during our annual benefits window, in November each year

Hargreaves Lansdown is an inclusive employer that values diversity in its workforce. We encourage applications from all individuals without regard to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or age.

This role may also be available on a flexible working or part time basis – please ask the Recruitment & Onboarding team for more information.

Please note, we are unable to provide employment sponsorship to candidates.

Hargreaves Lansdown is the UK's number one platform for private investors.

Our purpose is to empower people to save and invest with confidence, and today, we are trusted with more than £120 billion by over 1.7 million clients.

We are based in the heart of Bristol now with over 2,000 colleagues.

We believe we have a workplace like no other, with constant learning, dynamic teams and a great ethos. We're steered by our core values that promote service, quality, innovation, and opportunity in everything we do.

For more information about careers at HL and to see all our vacancies, please visit our careers website.