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We are looking for great people to join us, so please come and invest in YOUR future at Hargreaves Lansdown.\nWe know that sometimes people can be put off applying for a job if they don't tick every box. If you're excited about working for us and have most of the skills or experience we're looking for, please go ahead and apply. We’d love to hear from you!\nAbout the role\nJoin our Technology Controls Testing team and help strengthen the controls that support secure, resilient and well-governed technology services. Using the COBIT framework, you will deliver risk-based assurance over key technology controls and provide clear, evidence-led insight into how effectively they are designed and operating.This is an opportunity to work across major technology and transformation activity, while helping HL develop a more automated, data-led and continuous approach to control testing. You will partner with control owners, Technology, Risk, Operational Resilience and programme teams to identify weaknesses, support proportionate remediation and improve control testability by design.\nWhat you’ll be doing\nPlan and deliver assigned activity from the technology control testing plan, managing walkthroughs, evidence requests, milestones and dependencies.\nCarry out risk-based testing across areas including access, change, incident, service continuity, resilience, suppliers, data centres and technology platforms.\nAssess control design and operating effectiveness using COBIT-aligned standards and HL’s risk management framework.\nProduce clear, concise and well-evidenced test scripts, working papers, findings and management information.\nWork constructively with control owners and colleagues to validate findings, understand root causes and agree proportionate remediation.\nTrack issues and actions, review remediation evidence and escalate overdue or inadequate responses.\nIdentify repeatable tests, reliable data sources and opportunities to automate evidence collection, analytics and continuous monitoring.\nBuild your expertise in COBIT, technology risk, control testing, data analytics and automation, sharing good practice across the team.\nAbout you\nEssential\nExperience in technology risk, technology controls, control testing, IT audit, technology assurance or a comparable risk and control environment.\nUnderstanding of technology change, service continuity, supplier technology risk and operational resilience.\nKnowledge of COBIT, or the ability to build this knowledge quickly, and how it can support control design, operation and maturity assessment.\nStrong analytical skills and professional judgement, with the ability to interrogate evidence, identify trends and reach balanced conclusions.\nClear written and verbal communication, with confidence engaging technology specialists, control owners, risk colleagues and managers.\nAbility to provide constructive challenge and produce high-quality testing documentation, reports and management information.\nDesirable\nExperience in data analysis, management information, control evidence management or the automation of control monitoring or testing.\nAwareness of FCA expectations, operational resilience requirements and technology governance good practice.\nInterview process\nThis will be a 2 stage process including a presentation\nWorking Schedule\nThe Digital Controls Tester role is a Permanent, full time, 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday. Our office is based in Bristol, BS2 0TR. Hybrid working is available with a blend of office and home working.\n.\nWhy us?\nHere at HL, we’re the UK’s number 1 investment platform for private investors, based in Bristol. For more than 40 years we’ve helped investors save time, tax and money on their investments.\nTo achieve our mission, we believe we have a workplace like no other, with constant learning, dynamic teams, and a great ethos. 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