Senior Manager - IT General Controls

Starr Underwriting; London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading fintech company seeks a Senior Manager of IT General Controls in London. The role focuses on overseeing SOX compliance processes, designing and enhancing IT controls, and ensuring collaborative efforts across teams. Candidates should have extensive experience in IT audit and strong qualifications in Information Systems.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Pension

Holiday

Private medical care

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in IT audit, internal controls, SOX compliance or risk management.
• Strong understanding of ITGCs and internal control frameworks like COSO, COBIT.
• Proven ability to work across departments and balance diverse needs.

Responsibilities

• Own the design, execution, and monitoring of IT general controls.
• Act as a core member of the company's SOX compliance team.
• Collaborate with internal and external auditors on testing and evaluation of ITGCs.

Skills

Analytical

Detail-oriented

Communication

Collaboration

Organizational

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Systems

CISA, CPA or equivalent

Tools

Oracle

SAP

Workday

Job description

About the team and the role:

We are seeking an experienced and detail-oriented Senior Manager, IT General Controls (ITGC) to join our Corporate Accounting department in London. This role is an integral part of our global SOX compliance team, with a focus on assessing, enhancing, and overseeing IT control activities that impact the company's internal control over financial reporting (ICFR). As a key contributor to our SOX program, the ideal candidate will bring deep expertise in ITGCs, strong collaboration skills across finance and IT teams, and a proactive approach to driving compliance and control excellence in a fast-paced fintech environment.

How you'll contribute:

• Own the design, execution, and monitoring of IT general controls (e.g., access controls, change management, system operations, backup and recovery) relevant to SOX 404 compliance.
• Act as a core member of the company's SOX compliance team, ensuring IT controls are properly integrated with the overall internal control over financial reporting (ICFR) framework.
• Participate in annual SOX scoping and risk assessment activities to determine key IT systems, applications, and infrastructure components supporting financial reporting.
• Collaborate with internal and external auditors on walkthroughs, testing, and evaluation of ITGCs. Coordinate remediation of identified control deficiencies with IT and business teams.
• Partner with IT and security teams to improve the design and efficiency of IT controls, with a focus on automation, scalability, and alignment with industry best practices (e.g., COBIT, NIST).
• Serve as the liaison between Finance, IT, and Audit teams to ensure a shared understanding of compliance objectives, control ownership, and audit requirements.
• Maintain comprehensive documentation of IT controls, processes, and testing results. Support the development of IT compliance policies, standards, and control narratives.
• Lead training initiatives for IT and business control owners to promote awareness and understanding of SOX requirements, IT control responsibilities, and best practices.
• Support system implementations, migrations, and other IT initiatives to ensure appropriate controls are embedded from the outset.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Accounting, Finance, or a related field; professional certifications such as CISA, CPA, or equivalent are strongly preferred.
• Extensive experience in IT audit, internal controls, SOX compliance, or risk management, ideally in a multinational public company or Big 4/public accounting firm.
• Strong understanding of ITGCs, financial systems architecture, and internal control frameworks (e.g., COSO, COBIT).
• Experience with enterprise systems such as Oracle, SAP, or Workday, and GRC platforms.
• Proven ability to work across departments and regions, balancing technical, regulatory, and business needs.
• Excellent communication, analytical, detail-oriented and highly organized, with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, global environment.
• Experience in a fintech or high-growth technology environment is a plus.

Candidates should be comfortable with an on-site presence to support collaboration, team leadership, and cross-functional partnership.

Interview process:

• MS Teams call with the Talent Acquisition professional
• MS Teams call with hiring manager
• Face to face interview

What's in it for you?

• Competitive salary
• Pension
• Holiday
• Private medical care

About Us

Acrisure is a fast-growing fintech leader that operates a global insurance broker. The Company has grown from $63 million to $4.3 billion in revenue since 2013 and deploys the best of Human and Artificial Intelligence (AI) at scale to reimagine financial service product distribution. Acrisure employs over 14,000 employees across thirteen countries.

Led by co-founder, Chairman and CEO Greg Williams, Acrisure provides a broad array of insurance and financial related solutions, including commercial property and casualty, personal lines and employee benefits insurance, real estate services, cyber services and asset and wealth management. Acrisure's massively valuable, high margin distribution network combines the strength of trusted advisors with growth and efficiency enabled by AI.

Our Ethos

Acrisure prides itself in achieving greatness through its people. We are a flat structure organisation that see the person behind the position. It's up to you to shape your career but we provide you with every tool that we can to help you get there.

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