Head of Control Effectiveness and Assurance

Legal & General (L&G) is a leading UK financial services group and major global investor.

We’ve been safeguarding people’s financial futures since 1836, and strive to build a better society, while improving the lives of our customers and creating value for shareholders.

We are one of the world’s largest asset managers and provide powerful asset origination capabilities. Together, these underpin our retirement and protection solutions: we are an international player in pension risk transfer, in UK and US life insurance, and in UK workplace pensions and retirement income.

Our Retail business supports customers throughout their lives, to help them save, plan, protect and enjoy retirement.

We’re a leading provider of retirement and protection solutions. We aim to support our c.12.8 million policyholders and workplace members throughout their lifelong financial journeys.

We focus on helping the customers of today and tomorrow achieve better long-term outcomes. We either talk with them directly or work with intermediaries and employers to meet their needs. We use the latest technology to connect with them quickly, efficiently and wherever possible in highly personalised ways.

Legal & General (L&G) is a leading UK financial services group and major global investor.

We’ve been safeguarding people’s financial futures since 1836, and strive to build a better society, while improving the lives of our customers and creating value for shareholders.

We are one of the world’s largest asset managers and provide powerful asset origination capabilities. Together, these underpin our retirement and protection solutions: we are an international player in pension risk transfer, in UK and US life insurance, and in UK workplace pensions and retirement income.

We’re looking for an experienced controls and assurance leader to shape and strengthen our first-line control effectiveness capability across Retail. In this role, you’ll provide technical expertise and objective challenge, ensuring key controls are well designed, operating effectively and supporting positive customer outcomes.

This is an opportunity to lead our control effectiveness framework and assurance programme while developing innovative, technology-enabled approaches to testing. Working closely with senior stakeholders across the business, you’ll turn control outcomes into meaningful insight and help build a more effective, consistent and forward-looking control environment.

• Leading Retail’s control effectiveness strategy, first-line assurance methodology and annual review programme
• Providing objective challenge on control design, operating effectiveness and the robustness of management assessments
• Conducting control testing, reperformance, evidence-based reviews and data-led analysis
• Identifying themes, trends and systemic weaknesses across risk events, issues, audits and monitoring activity
• Developing automated and scalable approaches to evidence collection, control monitoring and assurance testing
• Using analytics, workflow tools and AI-enabled functionality to improve coverage, efficiency and insight
• Building strong relationships with Risk, Compliance, Internal Audit, Technology, Data and business stakeholders
• Leading continuous improvement while supporting effective governance, customer outcomes and the development of colleagues

• Significant experience in control effectiveness, assurance, risk, audit or controls testing within a regulated environment
• Strong knowledge of control design and operating effectiveness across manual, automated and technology-dependent controls
• Strong AI-tech experience, having either built or implemented an AI tech solution
• Experience developing assurance…