{"id":1174319,"url":"https://alion.io/job/unilever-assistant-manager-it-controls-sme","title":"Assistant Manager - IT Controls SME","company":{"id":4977,"name":"Unilever","domain":"unilever.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/unilever","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":100,"open_postings":39,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.026,"repost_share":0.077,"time_to_fill_p50_days":13,"computed_at":"2026-09-25T05:45:01Z"}},"role":"Management","role_family":"Management","seniority":"senior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"explicit","locations":["Bengaluru, India"],"countries":["IN"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":6,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"AI Agents","optional":false},{"name":"GDPR","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-24T10:32:54Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-24","last_verified_at":"2026-09-25T22:45:13Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":1,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":1},"description":"Job Title: Assistant Manager- IT Controls SME\nLocation: Bangalore, India\nABOUT UNILEVER:\nBe part of the world’s most successful, purpose-led business. Work with brands that are well-loved around the world, that improve the lives of our consumers and the communities around us. We promote innovation, big and small, to make our business win and grow; and we believe in business as a force for good. Unleash your curiosity, challenge ideas and disrupt processes; use your energy to make this happen. Our brilliant business leaders and colleagues provide mentorship and inspiration, so you can be at your best. Every day, nine out of ten Indian households use our products to feel good, look good and get more out of life - giving us a unique opportunity to build a brighter future.\n1. Job/Role Description:\nThe Assistant Manager - Technology Controls is responsible for supporting the design, implementation, monitoring of technology controls across Unilever's digital landscape. The role plays a critical part in ensuring compliance with SOX requirements, strengthening the control environment, and partnering with stakeholders to address control deficiencies in a sustainable and risk-based manner. The individual will act as a trusted advisor, influencing stakeholders across functions and defending Unilever's control position with internal and external auditors.\n2. Job Summary\nSOX & Controls Compliance\nExecute and support SOX compliance activities across Technology domains.\nAssess the design and operating effectiveness of IT General Controls (ITGCs) and Interface controls.\nPerform control testing, evidence review, and deficiency assessments in line with internal and external audit requirements.\nEnsure controls remain aligned with evolving regulatory and business requirements.\nDeficiency Management & Remediation\nLead remediation efforts for identified control deficiencies and audit findings.\nPartner with control owners to perform root cause analysis and develop practical remediation plans.\nTrack remediation progress, challenge delays, and ensure timely closure of actions.\nStakeholder Management & Influencing\nBuild strong relationships with technology, cyber, digital, and business stakeholders.\nInfluence decision-making without direct authority to drive effective control outcomes.\nNavigate complex stakeholder environments and manage conflicting priorities.\nProvide clear and compelling communication to senior management, auditors, and control owners.\nAudit & Assurance Support\nCoordinate with Internal Audit, External Audit and Product teams and control owners.\nRepresent and defend Unilever's control position during audit discussions and deficiency evaluations.\nPrepare management responses and provide evidence-based rationale for control effectiveness.\nSupport successful audit outcomes while maintaining a balanced risk perspective.\nContinuous Improvement\nIdentify opportunities to enhance control design, automation, and monitoring capabilities.\nContribute to strengthening the overall controls culture and risk awareness across the organisation.\nSupport implementation of technology governance, risk, and compliance initiatives.\nSupport the business with adhoc assessments/ compliance activity/ advisory against regulatory requirements that maybe global/ regional in nature\nRoadmap and drive improvement activities from joint workstreams with teams like Standards, Privacy, CMDB etc.\nPartner with cross-functional teams (Infra, Privacy, Standards, inventory) to improve security integration.\n3. Experience & Expertise:\n6 to 8 years of experience of IT and Cyber background with strong understanding of security control frameworks (e.g. NIST, ISO27000, CIS) and regulatory standards (such GDPR, SOX, PCI, etc).\nStrong experience of managing operational risks and controls, including in end-to-end risk identification, assessment and mitigation. \nStrong experience driving IT & Cyber Automation, enabling real-time telemetry ingestion and correlation using APIs, data pipelines, or event hubs.\nExperience with Vendor Management and Quality Assurance, for reviewing performance of a large team of cyber security consultants against clearly defined targets\n4. Skills and Competencies\nAbility to analyse data and visualize compliance metrics effectively.\nSpecific certifications such as Security+, CISA, CISM, CISSP associate/professionals or equivalent\nStrong knowledge of the applications or the technical landscape within the domain.\nExcellent stakeholder management and communication skills.\nAgentic AI & Gen AI literacy\nNote: Please apply only if you are available to join immediately or have a maximum notice period of 30 days.\nNote: All official offers from Unilever are issued only via our Applicant Tracking System (ATS). 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