IT Risk & Control Analyst
Permanent
Location: Edinburgh or Witham (We believe in the power of in-person collaboration, and our hybrid model requires colleagues to be in the office a minimum of 40% of their time)
Salary: A competitive salary from £32,400 - £48,600 depending on the experience you can bring
Closing date: 18th of February 2025
Our team are focused on providing retirement, investment and workplace savings to over 3.8 million customers. To do that we work with financial advisers and employers, to help improve peoples' financial wellbeing.
An opportunity has arisen for a Risk & Control Analyst to join our 1st line IT Risk & Control Team. Reporting to the IT Risk & Control Manager, in this role you will play a vital role in delivering initiatives designed to transform and elevate IT Risk and Control in Aegon.
You will work to embed first line risk & control responsibilities and accountability across IT, ensuring adherence to all Risk and Control frameworks and policies. This includes the IT SOX programme, Risk Incident management, Breach management and the Risk Assessment process.
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
Supporting the IT teams to ensure risks and controls are recorded and managed appropriately.
Developing and delivering effective risk reporting and management information.
Overseeing IT Risk Events ensuring that first line responsibilities are being met and collating information required for reporting.
Maintain a view of key dates for risk reporting providing awareness to key stakeholders so that dates are met.
Complete control testing activities to ensure active controls remain appropriate and robust
We’d love to hear from you if you have:
Extensive experience using Power BI to aid in analysis
Experience in building effective relationships with key stakeholders
A proven track record of strong interpersonal skills including challenging and influencing others where appropriate
Prior experience in risk identification and management and its application within technology.
Prior experience of establishing and embedding robust and effective controls and completing controls testing
Strong IT skills including Advanced Excel
What’s in it for you?
A non-contributory pension between 8%-12%
A discretionary bonus, depending on personal and company performance
34 days leave per year (including bank holidays, pro-rated for part-time)
We also offer private medical cover, life assurance, critical illness cover, enhanced parental leave and a variety of lifestyle benefits to help our employees live their best lives, including retail discount vouchers, cycle2work scheme, subsidised restaurant and online GP appointments.
The legal bits
We’ll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK. If we offer you a job and you accept, there are some checks we need to complete before you can start with us. This will include a credit and criminal record check, as well as providing satisfactory references.
Equal Opportunity Employer:
We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their age, disability, race, religion/belief, gender, sexual orientation or gender identity.
Our story started over 190 years ago, right here in the UK. We were originally founded as Scottish Equitable, but today we’re part of Aegon.
We’re the UK’s largest investment platform, and we put financial wellbeing at the heart of our organisation. We work with customers, financial advisers and employers to provide pensions, savings and investment solutions.
As a purpose-led business, we're focused on supporting our customers as they navigate through new stages of their lives and all the moments that matter. We're here for everyone who wants to make the most of their time on the planet and leave it a little better than they found it, however grand or humble their ambitions.
Working at Aegon, you'll play an important part in helping achieve this.
Workplace Initiatives
Leadership development programmes? Yes
Mentoring programmes? Yes
Coaching programmes? Yes
Employee-led diversity networks? Yes
Internal women’s networking groups? Yes
Open to discussing flexible work arrangements at interview stage? Yes
No. of weeks paid maternity leave at full salary: 26 weeks
Minimum weeks tenure required to be eligible for paid maternity leave: 26 weeks
No. of weeks paid paternity leave at full salary: 6 weeks
Minimum tenure required to be eligible for paid paternity leave: 26 weeks
Gender pay gap reporting information - 2023
Average pay gap: 21.83%
Median pay gap: 19.87%
Average bonus gap: 43.72%
Median bonus gap: 40.66%
Signatory of the UK Women in Finance Charter? Yes
Targets to raise the number of women in leadership? Yes
Targets to raise the number of BAME individuals in leadership? Yes
Listed in the Bloomberg Diversity & Inclusion Index? No
We offer various apprenticeships, internships, career ready placements and graduate programmes.