Controls & Assurance Specialist

 

Main characteristics

Location

Crawley, West Sussex

Company

Peoples Partnership

Salary

£28000 - £32000/annum

Employment type

Permanent

Category

Accounting / Financial / Insurance

Job summary

People's Partnership have an exciting opportunity to join our growing team as a Controls & Assurance Specialist.

This role is a hybrid opportunity with the successful candidate working both at home and in the office.

Main Purpose:

Responsible for timely and accurate TPR reporting within regulatory deadlines.

Undertake 1st line assurance activity to ensure adherence to Peoples Partnerships controls and quality assurance framework within the frontline operations teams.

Conduct in depth design effectiveness reviews across key processes within Operations, collating improvements and driving change as required.

Carry out investigations into potential fraudulent activity, maintain clear logs and providing guidance to Customer Services.

Handle Data Subject Access Requests in an accurate and timely manner, within regulatory deadlines.

Responsible for daily maintenance and accuracy of the companys internal and external Knowledge Base systems, ensuring any change is controlled and delivered.

Skills & Experience:

Essential

* Ability to use Microsoft Office and Outlook

* Experience of sampling processes and quality standards

* Experience of providing effective feedback and coaching

* Strong understanding of risk and controls management in an operations department.

* Strong analytical and data analysis skills

* Ability to influence and persuade others

* Ability to use Excel skills to analyse data effectively and produce clear reports.

* Effective, concise professional communication and presentation skills. Ability to tailor complex information to the appropriate level for an audience to gain buy-in to proposals, recommendations or concepts.

* A self-starter, with the ability to work independently on specified tasks and projects with the minimum of supervision.

* Excellent attention to detail, ensuring accuracy maintained

Desirable

* Previous experience gained in a Financial Services environment, specifically within the Pensions or Automatic Enrolment market

* Previous experience in a controls environment, ideally within Financial Services

* CII or Lean six sigma qualifications

Our people are our strength so finding ways to value and reward them is important to us. Thats why we offer an award-winning pension its what were good at plus health care cover, an onsite gym, access to a personal trainer; even the odd massage. And if theyre feeling peckish after all that activity, they can always refuel in our subsidised restaurant. Discover more of People's Partnership employee benefits including our training programme, which is designed to give our people the support they need to develop a fulfilling career.

People's Partnership is an equal opportunities employer. We believe everyone has the right to be treated fairly, with dignity and respect. We are committed to treating all our people (and all who apply for a role at People's Partnership) equally and enabling them to perform at their best and demonstrate what they have to offer. We are a disability committed employer, please let us know if you need any reasonable adjustments made to our recruitment process (application, selection assessments where relevant, and interview) to enable you to show us the best you.

Please note any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory pre-employment screening checks. These consist of right to work check, 5 year referencing including GAP verification, DBS & Credit check