Controls & Assurance Manager

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Location:

You'll be expected to spend 50% of your working week in one of the following SSE locations - Glasgow, Perth, Aberdeen, or Inverness.

Salary: £50,100 - £75,100 + performance‑related bonus + a range of benefits to support your finances, wellbeing and family.

Working Pattern: Permanent| Full Time | Flexible First options available

The Controls & Assurance Manager role is focused on delivering, embedding and supporting the operation of a robust internal control environment across SSE. This role plays a key part in strengthening how the Group designs, tests and improves its internal controls and related assurance activities. You will lead practical, risk‑based controls testing and assurance work across material areas, working closely with stakeholders to deliver insight, support strong decision‑making and help ensure SSE continues to meet governance, regulatory and stakeholder expectations.

This opportunity offers broad exposure across the Group, working with Finance, Risk, Sustainability and other senior stakeholders to strengthen how controls and related assurance operate in practice and continue to evolve.

• Lead the implementation and embedding of the internal control framework and standards, working with stakeholders to design and operate proportionate, effective controls across material and related component processes.
• Own and deliver the controls testing plan end‑to‑end, including prioritisation, execution, and forming evidence‑based conclusions, while managing control issues through the remediation lifecycle and ensuring sustainable improvements are embedded.
• Monitor and report on control effectiveness across the organisation, providing clear insight on performance, risks and remediation to management and governance forums, supporting the Board’s annual assessment of the system of internal control.
• Deliver targeted non‑financial and broader assurance activity and support integrated assurance across the four lines of defence, contributing to a coordinated, risk‑based approach to assurance across the Group.
• Act as a trusted partner and constructive challenger, building strong relationships across the business to embed a controls and assurance mindset, influence improvements, and maintain delivery pace and value.

• A degree and/or relevant professional qualification (e.g. ACA, ACCA, CA, CIPFA or equivalent), with expertise in controls, assurance or internal audit, including delivery of controls testing or assurance programmes.
• A structured and delivery‑focused approach, including the ability to take ownership, prioritise effectively, and deliver high‑quality outcomes in an evolving environment with a solid understanding of developing governance and regulatory expectations.
• Strong technical knowledge of control design and operating effectiveness, with proven experience leading and executing controls testing, assessing evidence, identifying control weaknesses and root causes, and managing issues and remediation through to resolution, supported by clear and robust reporting.
• Confidence working with stakeholders at all levels, able to challenge constructively, influence ways of working, and apply a pragmatic approach that maintains high‑quality standards while focusing effort on material risks and priorities.
• A collaborative and forward‑thinking mindset, able to act as a trusted advisor and open to different perspectives and ideas that evolve and strengthen controls and assurance approaches and outcomes.

SSE’s purpose is to provide energy needed today while building a better world of energy for tomorrow. We do this by developing, building, operating and investing in electricity infrastructure and businesses needed in the energy transition. Our Transforming for Growth investment plan sees us investing £33bn in critical electricity infrastructure across the five years to 2030.

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