Manager, Controls Advisory (Business Process)

DELOITTE LLP; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A global professional services firm is looking for a Senior Manager in their Controls Advisory team in Bristol. The role involves leading multi-disciplinary teams to implement business process controls, managing projects, and building client relationships. Candidates should have a background in risk management, strong communication skills, and experience with regulations like SOX. The position offers a hybrid working model.

Benefits

Hybrid working policy

Professional development opportunities

Supportive work culture

Qualifications

• Experience assessing, designing, and implementing business process controls.
• Ability to articulate complex ideas and manage stakeholders effectively.
• Proven ability to deliver projects and lead multi-disciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead multi-disciplinary teams to assess and implement controls.
• Manage project financials to ensure profitability.
• Document processes for financial and non-financial reporting.

Skills

Communication skills

Risk management

Project management

Team development

Regulatory knowledge

Job description

Bristol, Edinburgh, Glasgow, London, Manchester

Overview

Business Line

Job Type: Permanent / FTC

Date published: 09-Jun-2025

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Connect to your Industry

The Controls Advisory team supports those accountable for managing organisations technology risks and compliance requirements through driving efficiency, effectiveness and modernisation of their control environment to achieve better business outcomes. We focus on increasing our clients confidence in their compliance and control whilst reducing cost and effort.

Our team works cross industry helping senior client leaders with some of their most important and reputationally impactful challenges.

Connect to your career at Deloitte

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Connect to your opportunity

If you have practical delivery experience of assessing, designing, and implementing business process controls and are looking to develop your career in a market-leading controls advisory team, then this could be the role for you.

Responsibilities

As a Senior Manager within the team, you will lead multi-disciplinary teams and utilise your knowledge of risk and controls and your project management experience to assess, design and implement business process controls for a wide range of clients across multiple industries. This includes applying knowledge of emerging technology such as AI and leveraging technology to drive improvements throughout the control lifecycle from assessing risks to implementing, monitoring, and testing controls.

• Leading teams of professionals, and managing projects to ensure they deliver client outcomes.
• Managing engagement financials to ensure projects are profitable.
• Building and developing networks of with Deloitte Professionals and Client Stakeholders.
• Documenting processes and designing business process controls across all financial reporting cycles and non-financial reporting metrics;
• Applying your risk and controls experience to support clients in meeting specific requirements e.g. SOX, UK Corporate Governance Reform;
• Supporting our clients with the implementation or remediation of business process controls either through a standalone project or part of a wider controls transformation including other controls specialists;
• Leading testing of manual and IT dependent controls, and collaborating with our technology colleagues to support their testing of the relevant IT elements;
• Delivering end to end project management activities including project set up, monitoring, and reporting;
• Guiding, managing and leading team members within an inclusive team culture where people are recognised for their contribution;
• Actively managing key risks or issues and proactively communicating to management (both internally and client stakeholders) as required;
• Developing client relationships and managing communications with key project stakeholders;
• Developing and growing the practice;
• Leading and shaping the strategy and team.

Qualifications and professional experience

• Background assessing, designing and implementing controls in an external audit, internal audit, internal controls or equivalent role.
• Experience working as part of a multi-disciplinary team e.g. alongside technology specialists to identify automated controls.
• Experience with specific regulations e.g. Sarbanes-Oxley, UK Corporate Governance Reform.
• Excellent communicator with the ability to articulate complex ideas, and effectively manage key stakeholders.
• Proven ability to understand, mitigate and manage risk.
• Proven ability to structure and deliver projects.
• Proven ability to lead and direct teams across multiple locations.
• Excellent people management and development skills with a strong focus on team development.
• Industry specific risk and controls expertise e.g. Financial Services.
• Holding or eligible for UK Security Clearance.

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Policy and working arrangements

Our hybrid working policy

You'll be based in one of our UK offices with hybrid working.

At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. We are supported to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you'll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely. You'll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Please check with your recruiter for the specific working requirements that may apply for your role.

Our commitment to you

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We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we're nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we'll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it's only when you're comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.

Your expertise is our capability, so we'll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it's from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you'll learn every day. Through world-class development, you'll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you'll learn how to lead.

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