Technology Controls Manager

Tesco Insurance & Money Services; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading insurance company in Edinburgh is seeking a Technology Controls Manager to oversee risk management and controls within the Insurance Money and Services team. This role entails partnering with leadership to develop a robust risk framework and requires strong leadership, communication, and analytical skills. A relevant ISACA qualification is preferred. The company offers a range of benefits including a pension scheme, private healthcare, significant holiday allowance, and employee discounts.

Benefits

Colleague pension scheme

Private Healthcare

Annual performance-related bonus

Generous holiday allowance

10% discount via Colleague Clubcard

Green Car Leasing Scheme

Critical Illness cover

Enhanced maternity leave pay

Qualifications

• Comprehensive competency and experience in risk management.
• Ability to communicate business strategy and objectives effectively.

Responsibilities

• Lead risk and control framework for the business.
• Monitor and assess access management related controls.
• Act as subject matter expert in technology and policies.

Skills

Leadership skills

Communication skills

Influencing skills

Risk management

Planning and organization

Analytical skills

Education

Relevant ISACA qualification (CISM, CRISC, CISA, CISSP)

Job description

Job Details

Tesco Insurance • Edinburgh - 2 South Gyle Crescent, Edinburgh, EH12 9FQ, United Kingdom • Permanent • Apply by 15-Dec-2025

Opportunity

We’re looking for a Technology Controls Manager to join our Insurance Money and Services team. The purpose of Technology Controls is to provide Controls and Risk Management leadership enabling colleagues to make the right decision. You'll partner with Senior Leadership Team to execute and oversee a robust activity risk and control framework that identifies, prioritises risks and sets appropriate controls across all challenges of business.

Role

• Demonstrating good Leadership skills.
• Strong communication skills & good influencing skills to positively challenge and enable key stakeholders.
• Applies expertise to act as the authority on identifying, assessing, prioritising and managing risk.
• Developing and/or delivering elements of a strategic planning system with guidance from senior colleagues.
• Developing functional or operational policies and helping develop policy frameworks for area of responsibility or departments.
• Effective planning, organisation, prioritisation skills to efficiently meet business objectives.
• Works to monitor, interpret and understand policies and procedures.
• Analyses potential solutions and creates recommendations based on the expected benefits, costs, and overall value of the solution for key stakeholders.
• Working at an advanced level to understand business context, needs, rules, and architecture, as well as our organisational structure.
• Experience in assurance activity (including control testing) of key controls.
• Reviewing, assessment, and remediation of access management related controls.
• Acting as subject matter expert in an area of technology, policy, regulation, or operational management for the team.
• Maintaining external accreditations and in-depth understanding of current and emerging external regulation and industry best practices.

You’ll have (min exp)

• Comprehensive job-related competency and experience in own area of expertise.
• Communicating the actions needed to implement our strategy and business plan within the team; explaining the relationship to the broader Tesco mission, vision and values.
• Experience of planning and managing resources to deliver predetermined objectives as specified by more senior managers.

And if you have any of these, even better

• Ideally, you’ll hold a relevant or equivalent ISACA qualification (CISM, CRISC, CISA, CISSP) or be willing to work towards this.

What’s in it for you?

• Prepare for your retirement with our colleague pension scheme.
• Private Healthcare & Virtual GP Service for you and your family 365 days a year.
• Performance related annual bonus.
• Indulge in a generous holiday allowance with a minimum of 7.2 weeks, with the opportunity to buy more.
• Colleague Clubcard with a 10% discount that increases to 15% every payday (worth up to £2K). Second card to share.
• Green Car Leasing Scheme.
• Critical Illness cover.
• Enhanced maternity leave pay, shared parental leave policy, generous 8-week paid paternity leave.
• Buy as you Earn and Save as you Earn share schemes.

Why Tesco Insurance and Money Services?

We want all our colleagues to always feel welcome and be themselves. We’re committed to building a more inclusive workplace and celebrating everything that makes colleagues unique.

How to apply

If you’re interested in learning more about what a career at Tesco Insurance and Money Services looks like, click apply to find out more!