IT Risk and Controls Junior Assessor

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Our vision is to make Lloyds Banking Group the best bank for customers. As the UK's largest retail and commercial bank, we have a footprint that touches nearly every community and household in the UK. That gives us a big responsibility to support the UK economy, and to put customers at the heart of everything we do. To achieve this, we also need to be the best bank for our colleagues and our communities - and we have a clear strategy in place to make this a reality. We are building on our many strengths: iconic brands, strong heritages and great people. To unlock the great potential in our business, we are becoming more efficient, more transparent, and more responsive to customers. Already the UK's largest community investor, we are giving even more back. Above all, we are putting customers first.

The world is constantly changing and we have to adapt and respond quickly to new risks and heightened regulatory interest in areas such as IT Resilience, Cyber Security and Codes of Conduct. Our Business Unit Control Function takes a central role in embedding a strong risk and control culture across the business. We are undergoing a period of significant change, transforming our capabilities to support the Bank, now and in the future. We support the Group in the identification and management of risks, controls and issues, ensuring that IT is compliant with our own Policies, Regulatory Standards and maintains control of its business in an effective manner.

As a Junior IT Risk and Controls Assessor you will play a key role in evaluating the Group IT residual risk position through targeted evaluation of IT risks and controls. You will contribute towards the delivery of a complex portfolio of control testing and assessment activities providing reliable and independent evaluation of our IT control framework. This is a varied role where controls span themes as broad as Disaster Recovery, Information Security and Change and Project Management. You will have a track record of delivering work to a high standard and have the confidence, experience, stakeholder management skills and vision to help deliver our current services.

To succeed you will demonstrate

- Practical experience of working in technology risk and control. Delivering towards complex technology, internal audit or risk management / assurance programmes.

- Technical abilities in formal audit / assurance methodologies, control testing and assessment,

- Strong business acumen and Business Analysis skills. Developing knowledge and skills in process mapping, control gap identification and test script preparation. Developing ability to apply insights to ensure up/downstream impacts of testing findings are considered, and that a holistic view is taken.

- Qualification or part-qualification in one or more of the following: CISA/CISSP/ITIL or equivalent.

- Developing skills in the building and managing of effective relationships with key stakeholders, with demonstrable influencing skills.

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to clearly articulate technical detail in risk / assurance language, with developing skills in report writing.

There will be an equal number of more experienced colleagues to help guide you whilst also giving the freedom to manage your own portfolio of work. In short, we are offering a challenging role as part of a dynamic, recently created team with prospects to really develop your capabilities and career.

This role can be based in Edinburgh, Manchester, Halifax or London.

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