Financial Controls Manager

Country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Creation Date: 27-Jan-2026

Employment Type: Permanent

Employment Type: Full time

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Department:
Finance

Team:
Financial Control team

Location:
London

Type:
Permanent

About the Role:

Lead the day-to-day delivery, embedding and continuous improvement of Liberty Specialty Markets’ Financial Control Framework (FCF) across legal entities and branches and own the end-to-end assurance lifecycle (design assessment, operating testing, attestation, remediation and reporting).

Act as the primary trusted advisor to Finance, Risk, Compliance, Internal Audit and External Audit on control effectiveness, assurance planning and regulatory attestations, ensuring the finance control environment reduces the risk of material financial misstatement and meets Group/SOX and other regulatory expectations.

About the Department & Team:

Finance in London consists of circa 100 FTE and has a number of key roles:

· To partner the business to enhance decision making with a focus on strategy, planning, analysis and reporting. Support is provided both to two management ‘Demand Pillars’ of GRS Reinsurance and GRS International - and also to the supporting functions within GRS

· To ensure that all external financial reporting requirements (statutory, regulatory, tax, capital etc) are fulfilled. GRS International consists of a Lloyd’s Syndicate, a UK insurance company with European branches, a number of small service companies and a portion of a US balance sheet

· To provide insightful performance analysis on the GRS International legal entities to the Legal Entity Management Committees enabling effective performance planning and management

· To report to our US Parent on standard monthly requirements and ad-hoc requests on both a pillar and a legal basis

· To ensure superior management of our investments, cash and all financial risks

· To give finance operations support to the business and finance. Finance strives for continuous improvement in all areas and aims for excellent customer service, supported by quality and efficient processes, all operating within a robust control environment

Key Responsibilities:

• Own and develop the FCF, attestation policies and minimum control design criteria to ensure alignment with Group SOX expectations, the Risk Management Framework, Liberty’s risk appetite and other regulatory requirements.
• Define and maintain testing methodologies, sampling standards, documentation requirements and governance for FCF controls across legal entities.
• Maintain and version-control the control population, process maps and risk-control matrices used for attestations and external audit.
• Proactively challenge business owners and the existing control environment: identify weaknesses in control design and operating effectiveness, question assumptions, and drive pragmatic remediation and control enhancements.
• Develop, manage and deliver the assurance and controls testing programme (scoping, sampling, test scripts, calendar).
• Lead quality control over testing activities: review evidence, validate conclusions, ensure consistent application of methodologies and produce executive test conclusions for CFO Committee and Audit Committee audiences.
• Integrate ITGC, application controls, interfaces and EUC considerations into test plans; evaluate SOC reports and outsourced provider controls.
• Lead proactive risk identification across finance processes — identify emerging, systemic and jurisdictional risks and translate these into control and testing requirements.
• Deliver thematic deep dives, root‑cause analysis and ad‑hoc assurance reviews across processes, new regions, new systems, or material change programmes; scope and execute targeted controls testing and remediation validation as required.
• Provide rapid assurance capability for incident response, regulatory queries or external audit requests through focused controls testing and evidence collation.

Remediation & control improvement

• Own remediation governance for all test exceptions and control deficiencies: prioritise remediation plans, assign owners, monitor progress and validate remediation effectiveness
• Escalate…