General information

Job Title
Technology Controls Assurance Manager
Ref #
9399
Location
Edinburgh - 2 South Gyle Crescent, Edinburgh, EH12 9FQ, United Kingdom
Department
IMS - Technology Operations
Business Area
Technology Operations
Working time
Full-Time
Date Published
13-11-2025

Serving our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day.

Salary – from £54,600 + annual bonus & benefits
Work Level - 2
Location - Edinburgh
Office Attendance - Our roles are hybrid; you should be able to work in our offices 2 days per week.
Closing date – Monday 15th December 2025

We deal in the personal – from home insurance for peace of mind, to motor insurance for your dream car or travel money for that trip you’ve worked hard for. And that means we always work with heart. Whether we’re helping our customers or looking after our people, you’ll find there’s a warmth and friendliness to everything we do.

Opportunity

We’re looking for a Technology Controls Assurance Manager to join our Insurance Money and Services team. The purpose of Technology Controls is to provide Controls and Risk Management leadership enabling colleagues to make the right decision.

You’ll provide oversight of the Technology Controls Library, supporting our key stakeholders by providing expert guidance based on analytical outcomes and insight surrounding the operation of the control environment, ultimately supporting the evolution and maturity of the risk and control profile.

The Role

• Own, co-ordinate and operate a variety of control oversight activities including, the delivery of scheme attestations and annual control testing schedule.
• Research, transform and improve on existing practices.
• Coordinate and drive responses to attestation and Due Diligence requirements.
• Provide consultancy and expertise on Control Design and Operating practices.
• Inform and support key stakeholders to make risk-based decisions.

We need you to have (min exp)

• Strong communication skills & good influencing skills to positively challenge and enable key stakeholders if anyone is discharging their accountabilities in relation to Risk Management.
• Effective planning, organisation, prioritisation skills to efficiently meet business objectives.
• Works to monitor, interpret and understand policies and procedures, while making sure they match our strategies and objectives.
• Explore the depth and breadth of a problem, draw out the implications of not changing, and help clients self-discover and articulate the value of a solution.
• Seeks to understand the client's situation, explores client problems and solutions, and can design solutions for resolution.
• Identifies, assesses, prioritises, and manages risk.
• Analyses potential solutions and creates recommendations based on the expected benefits, costs, and overall value of the solution for key stakeholders.
• Works at an advanced level to understand business context, needs, rules, and architecture, as well as our organisational structure.
• Experience in assurance activity (including control testing) of key controls.
• Review, assessment, and remediation of access management related controls.
• Experience of cyber related risks and issues (leveraging NIST framework).
• Practiced in policy, standards and process reviews and adherence of first line of defence teams to these.

And if you have any of these, even better

• Ideally, you’ll hold a relevant or equivalent ISACA qualification (CISM, CRISC, CISA, CISSP) or be willing to work towards this.
We don’t expect you to tick every box, and if you feel you hit most of the brief, it’s worth exploring to further develop your career here with us.
What’s in it for you?
• Prepare for your retirement with our colleague pension scheme.
• Private Healthcare & Virtual GP Service for you and your family 365 days a year.
• Performance related annual bonus.
• Indulge in a generous holiday allowance with a minimum of 7.2 weeks, with the opportunity to buy more.
• Embrace the benefits of our Colleague Clubcard, enjoy a 10% discount that increase to 15% every payday (worth up to £2K). As an added perk, we’ll give you a second card to share with someone else.
• Green Car Leasing Scheme.
• Critical Illness cover.
• Benefit from our family-oriented initiatives, encompassing enhanced maternity leave pay, a shared parental leave policy, and a generous 8-week paid paternity leave.
• Take part in our Buy as you Earn and Save as you Earn share schemes.

Everyone’s welcome

We want all our colleagues to always feel welcome and be themselves. We’re committed to building a more inclusive workplace and celebrating everything that makes colleagues unique, and value the richness and diversity this brings to our business. A more diverse business helps us deliver on our purpose to serve our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day.

Additional Information

We also know the importance of balancing work with life’s other commitments. Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you need, as we’re committed to exploring part time and flexible working opportunities, at every level of the organisation.

Interviews commencing December 2025.

Why Tesco Insurance and Money Services?

Seeing your impact all around you: there's no better feeling.

Lucky for us, we get to feel it all the time. Because whatever our role, we're helping our colleagues and serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day.

We deal in the personal – from pet insurance for your best friend, and home insurance for peace of mind, to motor insurance for your dream car or travel money for that trip you’ve worked hard for.

Everything we do is about making things better. Not just for others, but for you too. It's why you'll get bags of choice and plenty of development. It's why you'll always be heard and find balance that works for you. It's why you'll feel totally at home in a place where everyone's welcome.

So, if you want a career where you can do good and feel good, you've found it.

Let's make everyday a little better.

Our story

Making Insurance and Money Services more rewarding and offering great value and choice - because we know little wins can make a big difference.

We began life in 1997 and now help more than 2 million customers protect what matters to them.

We want to deliver a helpful service in everything we do and to make life easier for our customers. Our policies are really easy to manage online for our customers, but we know that being able to speak to our customer service staff when you need to is really important. This is why our customer service centres are open seven days a week.

Delivering great customer service means having great people behind the scenes – people who understand our customers and are driven by doing the right thing for them. We offer colleagues a place where they can feel totally at home in a place where everyone's welcome, where they can be part of a great team focused on making a real difference for our customers.

How to apply

We value our people and diverse teams and believe the variety of backgrounds and experiences make us stronger to achieve our goals.

Our colleagues are working hybrid, taking time to meet with colleagues in our offices for moments that matter, such as team catch ups, planning meetings and more. If you’re interested in finding out more about what a career at Tesco Insurance and Money Services looks like, click apply to find out more!
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