About the Role
As a First Line Assurance Tester, you will play a vital role in safeguarding operations and transformation activities by providing independent assurance that controls are designed and operating effectively. This role involves working across a wide range of operational and change initiatives to ensure risks are identified, managed, and mitigated, supporting the safe delivery of change and protecting customer outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Conduct assurance and testing activities across operational and change programmes.
- Validate controls, risk actions, and risk assessments to ensure effectiveness.
- Perform scenario-based testing and implementation reviews to assess expected outcomes.
- Support assurance activities before, during, and after change delivery, including early life support reviews.
- Identify potential risks and unintended consequences that could impact customers or business performance.
- Produce clear reports and recommendations for stakeholders.
- Participate in governance forums, risk committees, and assurance reviews.
- Build strong relationships across Operations, Transformation, Risk, and Compliance teams.
Requirements
- Experience in assurance, risk management, controls testing, audit, or operational risk environments.
- Knowledge of operational risk, change risk, and resilience frameworks.
- Strong analytical and investigative skills with the ability to assess complex information.
- Experience reviewing controls, processes, or change initiatives.
- Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present findings and recommendations clearly.
- A proactive mindset with a focus on continuous improvement and customer outcomes.
Skills
- Risk management
- Controls testing
- Operational risk
- Change risk
- Resilience frameworks
- Analytical skills
- Investigative skills
- Stakeholder management
- Influencing skills
- Written communication
- Verbal communication
Location
- Hybrid - Flexible
Work Type
- Permanent
- Hybrid
Benefits
- Internal Mobility programmes
- Leadership development programmes
- Health Cash Plan
- Instant discounts
- Credit building tool
- Salary Finance Loans
- Electric vehicle leasing
- Long service awards
- Free Domestic & General protection plan
- Discounted rates on additional plans
- Referrals for family and friends
About the Company
- Domestic & General has a 100-year legacy and is expanding internationally.
- The company culture is creative, fast-moving, and exciting, with customers at the heart of everything.
- Currently undergoing a period of transformational change.
Equal Opportunity
- Domestic & General are an equal opportunities employer, treating people fairly regardless of gender, colour, ethnic background, religion, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, or marital/family status.
- A thorough referencing process, including credit and criminal record checks, is in place.
