Controls and Testing Lead
FNZ is a global wealth management platform provider.
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About FNZ
FNZ describes itself as 'wealth's growth platform', providing a global, end-to-end wealth management platform that integrates modern technology, business operations, and investment operations within a regulated financial institution connected to a universe of investment products. The company serves banks, wealth managers, insurance companies, and asset managers, with over US$2.5 trillion in assets on platform and nearly 30 million end investors served through its clients. Its offerings span wealth management platforms, advisor tools and productivity solutions, asset management distribution, and trade and post-trade securities services, along with a data platform combining an Operational Data Store, Analytical Data Warehouse, and Aggregated Data Warehouse to power analytics, machine learning, and generative AI insights. FNZ has notable clients including Santander, Colonial First State (CFS), Vanguard, Aviva, and Swedbank, and in 2025 announced a global five-year strategic partnership with Microsoft to integrate Azure AI Foundry, Microsoft Fabric, GitHub Copilot, and Microsoft 365 Copilot across its platform and operations. FNZ is backed by major institutional shareholders including Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), CPP Investments, Generation Investment Management, and Motive Partners.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will lead control-monitoring, testing, automation, and capability workstreams. You will define KPI and KRI frameworks, build control dashboards, design risk-based testing plans, assess automation opportunities, deliver controls training, and own annual testing, issue management, and remediation tracking after the build phase.
Requirements
- ACA, ACCA, or CIA qualification
- 5–7 years of controls testing, internal audit, or SOX compliance experience
- Experience designing and executing risk-based control testing programmes
- Regulated financial services industry experience
- Experience with IT general controls and business process controls
- Experience with deficiency grading, root-cause analysis, and remediation tracking
- Experience producing control reporting for senior management or Audit Committees
- Knowledge of risk-based testing methodologies, sampling techniques, and evidence standards
- Data analytics
- Dashboard and reporting design
- Automation
- Training
- Stakeholder management
- Issue management
- Finance systems
Responsibilities
- Lead control monitoring, reporting, automation, and capability workstreams
- Define KPI and KRI frameworks and implement the Finance Controls Dashboard
- Develop control effectiveness measures, exception reporting, and Audit Committee reporting
- Design and implement control testing methodology and risk-based testing plans
- Assess manual control dependencies and identify automation opportunities
- Improve system access controls, workflow approvals, automated reconciliations, and master-data controls
- Develop and deliver the Finance Controls Training Programme
- Define the control competency framework
- Own annual control testing, issue management, and remediation tracking
