IT Risk and Controls Specialist

**IT Risk and Controls Specialist**:

- ** Join our expanding IT Risk and Controls team.**:

- ** Based at our Stratford-upon-Avon office with excellent facilities and surroundings.**:

- ** Hybrid working with the option to work 80% of your hours from home.**

**About the role**:
We have an exciting opportunity for two IT Risk and Controls Specialists to join our growing team on a permanent basis. In this brand-new position, you’ll play a leading role in developing and maintaining a framework for the effective management of IT controls across the IT Division. You’ll ensure controls are periodically inspected, tested and through rigorous challenge improved and automated. This will play and important role in strengthening the oversight of IT controls that are necessary to manage existing and emerging risks, as well as demonstrating good governance to our regulators.

As an IT Risk and Controls Specialist, you’ll develop and embed a risk based periodic control inspection process across the IT Division aimed at providing assurance on control design, effectiveness, gaps, and opportunities for improvement. Using your best practice knowledge, you’ll own the development and maintenance of an effective internal control framework, delivering on strategic goals and meeting regulatory expectations.

You’ll inspect and provide technical guidance to IT managers and IT control owners on the design and effectiveness of IT controls and challenge the opportunity for continuous improvement. Using your influencing and persuasion skills, you’ll collaborate closely with hiring managers to design and deliver guidance and training to all IT management and staff on the purpose and need for robust controls. You’ll certify policy and regulatory compliance requirements are in place to ensure controls are identified, fully operational and meet the desired standards. You’ll design and implement an approach to steering, project, and decision-making groups across the IT Division to ensure there is rigorous control in decision making, confirming we remain compliant with internal policies and regulations to mitigate risk to the business.

**About you**:
As an IT Risk and Controls Specialist, you’ll have excellent influencing and negotiation skills, ensuring stakeholders understand the importance and value of controls. You’ll be an excellent written and verbal communicator and be confident presenting to virtual and in-person audiences. You’ll have be ITIL qualified and possess a professional risk qualification and you’ll ideally be a qualified Prince2 Project Management Practitioner.

To be successful in this role, you’ll also have:

- Knowledge of IT control frameworks and relevant best practice.
- Experience of performing IT risk and control-based reviews.
- Proven experience of analytical work in a governance, risk management or similar assurance function.
- Good knowledge of project management and planning processes and techniques
- Control Objectives for Information and related Technology v4.1 or above or working towards.
- At NFU Mutual, we support an inclusive workplace and value all the differences that make us unique. We celebrate the creativity and innovation that comes from diverse perspectives and experiences and share a common vision of doing the right thing for our customers and employees._-
**Benefits and Rewards**:
When you join our team, you can expect a supportive culture and an attractive range of rewards and benefits including:

- Up to £65,000 annual salary (depending on experience)
- Annual bonus (up to 25% of salary)
- Contributory pension scheme, up to 20%, including your 8% contribution
- 28 days annual leave + bank holidays + buy/sell/save holiday trading scheme
- A Family Friendly policy that helps you balance your work and family responsibilities
- Private medical insurance + options to add family members
- Access to savings at High Street brands, travel and supermarkets
- Health and wellbeing plan - cashback for dentist, opticians, physio and more
- Employee Volunteering - volunteer in the community for one day each year
- Unlimited access to Refer a Friend £500 bonus scheme
- Life Assurance cover of 4 x salary
- Employee discounts of 15% on a range of NFU Mutual insurance policies.

**Working at NFU Mutual**:
We’re one of the UK’s leading general insurance and financial services companies. For over 110 years we’ve put our customers at the heart of everything we do. Our people are just as important to us. We pride ourselves on being “a great place to work” and we're one of only 60 companies across the globe to receive a Gallup Exceptional Workplace 2024 award, and one of only 2 companies to receive the award for the ninth consecutive year. We were also named in the LinkedIn Top 25 Companies List 2021, the Glassdoor Best Places to Work UK List 2023 and 2024, and were recognised as a certified UK Top Employer by the Top Employers Institute in 2023 and 2024.

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