Finance Risk & Controls Oversight Lead

Overview

Job Description . Job Type: Permanent.

Location:

Edinburgh / London / Birmingham, with normally a minimum of 2 days a week working in the office and the rest working  believe that benefits both you and our business, helping ensure that you can balance a successful career with your life outside of work while maximising the value of face-to-face stakeholder engagement.

Flexible working: All of our roles are open to part-time, job-share and other types of flexibility. We will discuss what is important to you and balancing this with business requirements during the recruitment process. You can read more about Phoenix Flex here.

Closing Date: Friday 30th January

Salary and benefits: £55,000 - £70,000 plus a bonus range of 16%-32%, private medical cover, 38 days annual leave, excellent pension, 12x salary life assurance, career breaks, income protection, 3x volunteering days and much more.

We want to be the best place that any of our 6,600 colleagues have ever worked. We’re Phoenix Group, a long-term savings and retirement business. We offer a range of products across our market-leading brands, Standard Life, Sun Life, Phoenix Life and ReAssure. Around 1 in 5 people in the UK has a pension with us. We’re a FTSE 100 organisation tackling key issues such as transitioning our portfolio to net zero by 2050, and we’re not done yet.

Shape the Future of Finance Risk Management! Are you ready to make a real impact? As our Finance Risk & Controls Lead, you’ll be at the heart of strengthening the risk and control environment across Finance. Your expertise will help safeguard critical processes—from financial reporting and expense management to commercial finance activities and other technical areas.

This is not just a role—it’s an opportunity to influence. You’ll have autonomy to oversee financial and non-financial risks across end-to-end processes, partnering with senior leaders and Heads of to provide challenge and oversight to ensure risks are managed and controls are robust. Your voice will matter as you challenge, guide, and shape best practices.

We’re looking for someone who thrives in collaboration, brings deep technical knowledge of accounting/finance disciplines within a risk and control backdrop, and can influence with confidence. You’ll combine strategic thinking with hands-on problem-solving, aligning risk activities to long-term objectives and helping Finance deliver on its broader goals. This is your chance to build your profile, gain senior exposure, and drive meaningful change.

• Strong understanding of accounting and finance processes, with insight into financial and operational risks—ideally within life insurance or financial services.
• Experience in audit, risk, or controls roles within Finance.
• Ability to work independently, assess control effectiveness, and identify practical improvements across complex, multi-team processes.
• Exceptional organisational skills to manage multiple priorities and deliver high-quality outputs under pressure.
• Confident stakeholder management and communication skills - ability to influence, challenge, and build trust at all levels.
• A proactive, problem-solving mindset with critical thinking skills to diagnose issues and support effective solutions.
• Background in accounting and/or risk disciplines, ideally supported by a professional qualification or equivalent expertise.

We are committed to ensuring that everyone feels accepted and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. If your experience looks different from what we’ve advertised and you believe that you can bring value to the role, we’d love to hear from you. If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, please let us know so we can help you to be at your best.

Please note that we reserve the right to remove adverts earlier than the advertised closing date. We encourage you to apply at the earliest opportunity.

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