Senior Manager, SCB / PCAOB IT Controls, Technology & Transformation

DELOITTE LLP; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm is seeking a Senior Manager to join their Controls Advisory team. You will lead projects to assess and implement business process controls across various industries. Candidates should have extensive experience in internal or external audit and risk management. The position offers a hybrid working model in key UK cities and focuses on driving efficiencies through innovative technology solutions.

Benefits

Hybrid working model

Coaching for career returners

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Practical delivery experience in assessing and designing business process controls.
• Experience managing teams and projects to deliver client outcomes.
• Clear understanding of audit expectations.

Responsibilities

• Lead multi-disciplinary teams to assess and implement controls.
• Manage engagement financials to ensure profitability.
• Develop relationships with client stakeholders.

Skills

Assessing controls

Communicating with stakeholders

Managing projects

Understanding of Sarbanes-Oxley

Experience with AI risks

Education

Experience in audit or controls

Tools

S/4Hana

Oracle ERP

AWS

Job description

Overview

Location: Edinburgh, London, Manchester

Business Line

Job Type: Permanent / FTC

Date published: 15-Aug-2025

The Controls Advisory team supports those accountable for managing organisations risks and compliance requirements through driving efficiency, effectiveness, and modernisation of their control environment to achieve better business outcomes. We focus on increasing our client's 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.

Role overview

As a Senior Manager within the Controls Advisory team, you will lead multi-disciplinary teams and apply your knowledge of risk and controls and project management 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.

Responsibilities

• 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 Deloitte professionals and client stakeholders.
• Documenting processes and designing 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 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 setup, monitoring, and reporting;
• Guiding, managing and leading team members within an inclusive team culture where people are recognised for their contribution;
• Understanding of the key regulators and their expectations and supporting our clients in most efficiently and effectively meeting these mandates;
• Providing understanding how peer organisations across the Financial Services sector operate;
• 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 including business development;
• Leading and shaping the strategy and team.

Connect to your skills 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.
• Clear understanding of audit requirements and expectations, with the ability to use this experience when performing advisory services to our clients.
• 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.
• Knowledge of common application technologies e.g. S/4Hana, Oracle ERP, MS Dynamics, Blackline, Workday.
• Knowledge of common infrastructure technologies e.g. AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, SQL Database, Oracle database
• Experience of assessing AI risks and how AI can be responsibly used to improve control environments.
• Industry specific risk and controls expertise.
• Experience implementing controls as part of a system implementation e.g. implementing automated controls.
• Holding or eligible for UK Security Clearance.

Connect to your business - Technology and Transformation

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Personal independence

Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints. The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process or you can contact the Independence team upon request.

Connect with your colleagues

"I thoroughly enjoy the opportunities and the people I engage with: they enrich my day immensely. Every week throws up new challenges, new risks to assess, new plans to develop." - Montine, Technology & Transformation

Our hybrid working policy

You'll be based in Edinburgh, London or Manchester with hybrid working. 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.

Connect to your return to work opportunity

Are you looking to return to the workplace after an extended career break? For this role we can offer coaching and support designed for returners to refresh your knowledge and skills, and help your transition back into the workplace after a career break of two years or more. If this is relevant for you, just let your recruiter know when you make your application.

Our commitment to you

Making an impact is more than just what we do: it\'s why we\'re here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before. 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.

Connect to your next step

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