Salary: £35,000 - 55,000 (subject to experience) + excellent pension scheme, private medical insurance, electric vehicle scheme, 38 days holiday incl.
Bank Holidays, plus 12x salary life assurance, career breaks, income protection, 3x volunteering days and much more!Job Type: Permanent Hiring Manager: Head of AM PIO Business ControlLocation: This role will be based in our Midlands-centric offices; either of our Telford / Wythall / Birmingham offices, with some time spent working from home.
We have an incredible opportunity to join us here at Phoenix Group as a?Business Control Analyst?to join our?Business Control Team, within the Business Control & Governance team within the Asset Management function.
The TeamThe Business Control (BC) Team is part of the wider Business Control & Governance (BC&G) function and has been established as a Line 1 Risk and Control focused capability within Phoenix Asset Management ("AM"), responsible for providing a holistic view of financial and non-financial risks across the AM function and for supporting AM colleagues in the application of and adherence to the Groups Risk Management Framework.
The Role The Business Control Analyst will work closely with our Business Control Managers, overseeing a broad range of activities that contribute to the continuous improvement of AM's Risk and Control environment, ensuring risks to our business are understood, that plans to remediate those risks are in place and being tracked and that senior stake holders are suitably well informed.
The incumbent will be recognised internally as an SME on Risk & Control Governance as it's applied to AM, with Line 1 business partnering and collaboration a core activity.
They will represent AM in ongoing interactions and collaboration with colleagues across the 3 Lines of Defence (3 LOD), building strong relationships and facilitating risk reviews, audits and other strategic activities as required by the Group.
Key Responsibilities Maintaining an accurate record of the AM population of risks and controls in the Phoenix Group risk and control systems (GCM).
Mapping of Group Risk Policy Control Objectives to the AM Key Controls that mitigate these.
Ongoing oversight of the AM risk universe, ensuring key controls that mitigate these are attested to by relevant business owners via the quarterly Risk & Control Self-Assessment (RCSA) process Support in the documenting and monitoring of existing and emerging risks within the AM business and provide SME support in the design of high quality controls to mitigate those risks.
Collaborate with AM teams, Group Internal Audit and Line 2 in facilitating the closure of audit and other actions assigned to AM in response to business reviews Support in the AM assurance programme, undertaking regular reviews of the AM Risk and Control Environment Ensuring that audit and other control findings are tracked and overseeing closure by management owners, escalating where necessary.
Support Phoenix AM strategic change programmes and projects and help deliver a market leading asset management function within the UK's largest long-term savings and retirement business.
Oversee the production of regular MI in relation to the AM Risk and Control Environment Act as Business Control lead and SME on one or more Risk Framework themes, for example Business Continuity, End User Computing Governance, Risk Champion optimisation, GCM optimisation etc.
What we're looking for Minimum Requirements Experience (Essential) Experience with Asset Management functional areas and a broad understanding of "front to back" trade flow processes and associated control activities Excellent analytical skills with ability to evaluate audit & assurance reviews, and analyse large quantities of data A record of building strong and reliable relationships with internal stakeholders at all levels Proficient level of?MS Excel, Word and PowerPoint Qualifications Undergraduate degree or equivalent Personal Attributes / Skills Communication skills to interact with a range of stakeholders.
Ability to assign priorities to multiple activities while ensuring integrity, accuracy, and timeliness Ability to learn new systems and concepts in a timely manner.
Comfortable taking ownership of workstreams and managing stakeholders effectively Excellent attention to detail and proactive can-do attitude Excellent written and oral communication skills Enthusiastic and positive approach, taking pride in output Team player who is creative and solution driven We want to hire the whole version of you.
We are committed to ensuring that everyone feels accepted and welcome applicants from all backgrounds.
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