Controls Manager

What’s in it for you

We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we give our wonderful colleagues bags of benefits. Including wellbeing services, an award-winning pension scheme and much, much more, our colleague reward package keeps on giving. And helps make every day a little better for you and your family. These include but are not limited to:

• Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
• Buy holiday salary sacrifice scheme (for salaried roles)
• Private medical insurance
• Retirement savings plan - save between 4% and 7.5% and Tesco will match your contribution
• Life Assurance - 5 x contractual pay
• 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years’ service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave
• The right to request flexible working from your first day with us
• Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing
• A Colleague Clubcard for you & a family member (after 3 months of service), giving you access to lots of discounts in-store & online
• Great colleague deals and discounts, saving you money on everyday purchases, eating out and utility bills for the home
• Access to our colleague networks providing a space for colleagues to come together from a range of backgrounds. For more information about our colleague networks please click here
• Opportunities to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and award-winning training, to help you achieve the job and career you want

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About the role

As the Controls Manager, you'll be responsible for leading, developing and embedding key and non-key controls and risk frameworks across our core people processes and systems.

The Hiring Manager for this vacancy is Sophie Hill

You will be responsible for

• Developing end-to-end Controls Framework for new processes and new People systems
• Ownership and responsibility to update and continuously improve Risk and Control Matricies (RACMs)
• Creating Control KPIs to monitor the control environment for the end-to-end processes 
• Business Partnering with Global Process Owners, Process Team and Service Leads on changes to process that impact the Controls Framework
• Business Partnering with Internal and External Audit and other Second Line of Defense teams
• Reviewing, monitoring and management of second line of defense assurance activities including Key People Control self-assessment, Risk Management, IT Risk and Controls, Legal compliance, Fraud, Investigations and Security
• Reviewing, support and deployment of design and operational effectiveness testing of key and non-key controls
• Leading and support Control Self-Assessment for 1st Line
• Supporting with documentation and preparation of Governance and Audit Committee reports  on control design and effectiveness 

You will need

Operational skills relevant for this job:

• Strong working knowledge of Controls, Compliance and IT and Audit in an HR environment 
• Reviewing and re-engineering procedures, formulating policy, process, controls and compliance ensuring risk mitigation 
• Providing technical guidance and deliver training to end users  
• Data interrogation to identify issues, errors and fraud
• Perform and lead investigations where required and facilitate/ implement key actions 

Experience relevant for this job:

• Expert knowledge of good practice payroll and related HR processes in a large, complex organisation 
• Internal controls documentation, implementation and improvement 
• Enterprise controls and compliance 
• IT Auditing and Sox Framework
• Understand IT Controls incl. 3 lines of defence model
• Strong senior stakeholder engagement 

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About us

Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or out on the move. Our core purpose is ‘Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day’. Serving means more than a transactional relationship with our customers. It means acting as a responsible and sustainable business for all stakeholders, for the communities we are part of and for the planet.

We are proud to have an inclusive culture at Tesco where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. At Tesco, we not only celebrate diversity, but recognise the value and opportunity it brings. We're committed to creating a workplace where differences are valued, and make sure that all colleagues are given the same opportunities. We’re proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we’re committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please click here.

We’re a big business and we can offer a range of diverse full-time & part-time working patterns across our many business areas, which means that we can find something that works for you.  We work in a more blended pattern - combining office and remote working.  Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate.  If you are applying internally, please speak to the Hiring Manager about how this can work for you - Everyone is welcome at Tesco.