Controls Manager

We are looking for a Controls Manager to join Benefact Group in our Gloucester office on a fixed-term basis until 31/03/2027. Competitive salary, excellent benefits and hybrid working.

Working hours: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Duration: fixed-term until 31/03/2027

Location: Gloucester

Job Ref: 204942

About the role

Benefact Group are looking for a Controls Manager to join our Gloucester office on a fixed-term basis until 31/03/2027.

You will provide controls subject‑matter expertise to the Benefact Group’s Controls Project, ensuring a rigorous and compliant approach that will enable us to meet the revisions in Corporate Governance Code requirements for control disclosures. This project is also supporting enhancements to the overall maturity and effectiveness of the Group’s control environment, with a key focus on the Insurance Division and the controls that are material at a Groupwide level.

Why join us?

What you'll be doing

· Provide subject‑matter expertise and coaching to support first‑line control-owners in identifying, documenting, assessing, and assuring Key and Material Controls, including identifying gaps and defining mitigation plans.

· Maintain and enhance the Control Library, ensuring control design adequacy, operational effectiveness, and robust first‑line assurance activity.

· Ensure all control documentation meets internal policy standards, is audit‑ready, and produce clear reporting and progress updates for senior management.

· Align project control expectations with business Risk Registers and integrate Key Controls work into the annual RCSA process for smooth transition into BAU.

· Actively contribute to the project working group, preparing updates and collaborating with stakeholders to progress assigned activities.

What you'll need to have

· Solid experience and understanding of control design and operation, preferably in an insurance / financial services environment

· Experience of control documentation and testing

· Good coaching approach that allows for effective consulting and advising of first-line control owners on definition, documentation, assessment and testing of key controls

· Good attention to detail with strong analytical skills, and ability to analyse data to form judgements and conclusions through reporting

· Good experience in the development of tools using M365 applications, especially Excel or SharePoint data

What we offer

• A competitive salary - let's discuss it

• Hybrid working

• Group Personal Pension - up to 12% employer contribution

• Generous annual bonus scheme: on-target bonus between 7.5% and 30%

• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays, and a holiday buy and sell scheme

• An array of health and wellbeing benefits, including private healthcare, income protection and life assurance

• £200 annual personal grant to a charity of your choice

• Encouraged to take at least one volunteering day per year

• Employee Assistance Programme

• Full study support to gain professional qualifications

• Access to virtual GP

• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay

Hear from the hiring manager

“This is an opportunity to be part of a team that embraces difference and welcomes people who enjoy being specialists. As a project role, this is a chance to come and make a real difference to our organisation by sharing your skills and knowledge with people who want to get it right.”

About us

Benefact Group is a unique international financial services Group made up of over 30 businesses. We are owned by a charity and have been the 3rd largest UK corporate donor over a decade*, having given away £250 million since 2014. We have ambitious plans to become the UK’s number one corporate donor, with strategic objectives in place to double the Group’s size.

At Benefact Group, we are committed to creating an inclusive culture and building an environment where each and every one of us feels valued and respected. We are a community made up of people with a range of different backgrounds, abilities, perspectives, beliefs and interests and we value the strength this brings to us as a Group. We welcome applications from everyone.
If you need any additional support during the recruitment process, then please let us know.

*Directory of Social Change’s UK Guides to Company Giving 2017-26

Company

Benefact Group

Role

Risk and Compliance

Locations

Gloucester

Remote status

Hybrid

Employment type

Fixed Term Contract - Full Time