Assistant Manager - SOX and Risk Business Partner

Assistant Manager - SOX and Risk Business Partner page is loaded Assistant Manager - SOX and Risk Business Partner Apply locations Edinburgh time type Full time posted on Posted Yesterday time left to apply End Date: July 20, 2025 (11 days left to apply) job requisition id 134156

End Date

Saturday 19 July 2025

Salary Range

£43,803 - £48,670

We support flexible working - click here for more information on flexible working options

Flexible Working Options

Hybrid Working, Job Share

Job Description Summary

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Job Description

JOB TITLE: Assistant Manager - SOX and Risk Business Partner

SALARY: £43,803 - £48,670

LOCATION: Edinburgh

HOURS: Full-Time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our Edinburgh office

About this opportunity

Join the SOX & Risk Business Partnering team in Group Finance Support (GFS), where you'll help ensure we meet our SOX and risk management responsibilities. You'll work closely with finance stakeholders to support SOX assurance, RCSA processes, and strengthen our control environment.

This role, part of the Finance Chief Control Office, offers the chance to shape assurance practices, support control remediation, and explore smarter, tech-enabled solutions. You'll also guide on risk matters across end-to-end processes as we continue to automate and improve financial controls.

As Assistant Manager, you'll deliver control testing plans, build strong partnerships, and support continuous improvement in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

Day to day, you will:

• Helping to coordinate and plan risk and control assessments, mapping key processes and controls, and supporting remediation actions.

• Providing support and guidance to process and control owners in applying the Risk Management framework.

• Assisting in the coordination and delivery of all SOX & Risk Business Partnering activity and collaborating with key stakeholders across the GFS & finance teams.

• Supporting the delivery of control testing plans across the GFS control environment, identifying gaps and recommending improvements.

• Contributing to the oversight of control remediation activity, ensuring timely and effective resolution of issues.

• Identifying opportunities to enhance assurance approaches, including the use of automation, preventative controls, and improved data insights.

Why Lloyds Banking Group?

We're on an exciting journey and there couldn't be a better time to join us. The investments we're making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities, and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive.

What you'll need:

• Strong accounting knowledge and recently qualified or working towards a Professional qualification in related field (audit, risk management, accounting)

• Finance risk and control experience in relation to financial reporting risk across accounting processes and systems, with the ability to challenge risk and control owners on the end-to-end management of risk.

• Understanding of control management and the practical implementation across relevant business area with working knowledge of control design, optimisation, automation, testing and monitoring activities.

• Ability to build partnerships and works collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it's why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We're disability confident. So if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

• An annual performance-related bonus

• Share schemes including free shares

• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping

• 28 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

If you're excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We'd love to hear from you.

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.

We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we're building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.

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About Us

With 320 years under our belt, we're used to change, and today is no different. Join us and help drive this change, shaping the future of finance whilst working at pace to deliver for our customers.

Here, you'll do the best work of your career. Your impact will be amplified by our scale as you learn and develop, gaining skills for the future.

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