Assurance Manager

Alexander Lloyd are seeking an experienced Assurance Manager to design, implement and maintain a robust control monitoring framework across pensions administration. This role is critical in ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and providing assurance to senior leadership through effective oversight and reporting.

Key Responsibilities

Control Monitoring & Manual Workarounds

• Design and maintain a comprehensive control monitoring framework covering all aspects of pensions administration, including manual processes and workarounds.
• Ensure controls required to support compliance with the General Code of Practice and other guidance from The Pensions Regulator are included within the monitoring framework.
• Support the organisation’s Own Risk Assessment (ORA) and Effective System of Governance (ESOG) through documented control assurance work.

AAF 01/20 Internal Control Reporting

• Lead the end-to-end delivery of the annual AAF 01/20 report, including coordination with internal teams and external service auditors.
• Define, test, and evidence control objectives across pensions administration, IT, and other functions.
• Monitor and resolve issues arising from AAF testing, with a focus on repeat exceptions and high-priority findings.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Collaborate with Internal Audit, Risk, and Compliance teams to align assurance activities and share insights.
• Present findings and recommendations to senior leadership through clear reporting and participation in relevant forums.
• Act as a subject matter expert on internal controls and assurance frameworks.

Skills & Experience

• Proven experience in control assurance, ideally within a pensions environment.
• Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to constructively challenge assumptions and established practices.

The Employee Benefits that come with this role are superb! Performance bonus of 15%, Career Average pension Scheme, Electric Car salary sacrifice scheme, Private Medical cover & 28 Days leave.

Please quote 51873 when calling Aaron at Alexander Lloyd or email them at apu@alexanderlloyd.co.uk. This is only one of many vacancies we are handling, Alexander Lloyd is a specialist within Financial Services recruitment. Areas of expertise include Employee Benefits, Compliance, Pensions, Group Risk, Paraplanners, Sales Support, T&C etc.

Due to the high amount of interest that we receive for each of our roles unfortunately we cannot respond to each application individually, therefore if you do not hear back from one of our consultants you have not been shortlisted for this role. Please continue to check our website www.alexanderlloyd.co.uk for any other roles which may be of interest.