Controls and Assurance Specialist

At Vanguard, we're committed to doing what's right for our clients. As a Controls Management Specialist, you'll play a vital role in strengthening our control environment, helping ensure risks are effectively managed, regulatory expectations are met, and customer outcomes remain protected. This is an excellent opportunity for someone with experience in controls, risk, audit, compliance, or financial services operations who is looking to develop their career within a globally recognised investment management organisation.

What You'll Be Doing

Working closely with operational, risk, and compliance teams, you'll help assess, test, and enhance key operational controls across critical business processes.

Key responsibilities include:

• Conducting control design assessments and testing the operating effectiveness of key controls.
• Supporting the identification, assessment, and documentation of operational risks and controls.
• Performing process walkthroughs and control reviews to evaluate whether controls are appropriately designed and operating effectively.
• Identifying control weaknesses, process gaps, and opportunities for improvement, clearly documenting findings and recommendations.
• Maintaining control inventories, risk assessments, and assurance documentation.
• Monitoring remediation activities to ensure identified issues are effectively managed and resolved.
• Supporting thematic reviews and assurance activities across a range of operational areas.
• Partnering with business teams to strengthen risk management practices and embed sustainable controls.
• Contributing to governance reporting through clear, evidence-based insights and assessments.
• Identifying opportunities to enhance efficiency, automation, and overall control effectiveness.

We're interested in candidates who can bring analytical thinking, strong stakeholder management skills, and a passion for continuous improvement.

Ideally, you'll have:

• Experience within a regulated financial services environment.
• Experience in controls, operational risk, internal audit, compliance, governance, or financial services operations.
• Knowledge of FCA regulatory requirements and operational risk frameworks.
• Experience supporting governance forums and risk reporting activities.
• Strong attention to detail, problem-solving skills, and the ability to communicate findings clearly and effectively.

• Previous experience in audit, risk management, or a controls-related role.
• Experience conducting control testing, assurance reviews, or operational risk assessments.

• Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position
• This is a hybrid position and would require you to work in the office 3 days per week (Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday).
• Please note that we review applications on a rolling basis and may close this role early if there is a high level of interest. To avoid missing out, we recommend applying as soon as possible