Manager – Policy & Controls

Location: Hybrid (1–2 days per week in Manchester or Peterborough)

About the business

Markerstudy Insurance Group is one of the UK's leading insurance providers, supporting millions of customers across personal and commercial lines. As the business continues to grow, there is a strong focus on enhancing financial governance, strengthening controls, and building scalable, robust frameworks across the group.

The opportunity

We are looking for a Policy & Controls Manager to join Group Finance, reporting to the Senior Manager for Policy & Controls. This is a high-impact role where you'll help shape and embed the Internal Controls over Financial Reporting (ICFR) framework, while supporting the development of a sustainable first-line assurance function.

You'll play a key role in driving consistency, strengthening financial discipline, and ensuring a robust control environment across a complex, multi-entity organisation.

What you'll be doing

• Support the strategic development and rollout of the ICFR framework across key finance processes
• Lead workstreams across different business cycles and control areas
• Design and deliver a sustainable first line assurance plan
• Develop and maintain finance policies, standards, and governance frameworks
• Review and assess control design effectiveness across business processes
• Support the creation of high-quality process documentation, risk assessments, and control mapping
• Lead governance forums, committees, and control-related meetings
• Produce and present finance risk reporting to senior stakeholders, including SMF holders and Group leadership
• Partner with Finance Systems to embed control improvements across ledgers and reporting platforms
• Act as a key liaison with External Audit on internal controls
• Support business change initiatives, ensuring control impacts are understood and managed

What we're looking for

• Qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA or equivalent)
• Experience in internal controls, ICFR, assurance, or internal audit within a regulated environment
• Strong understanding of financial control frameworks and governance
• Experience working within a large, complex organisation (insurance or financial services preferred)
• Ability to review, challenge, and improve control design and effectiveness
• Confident, engaging and influencing senior stakeholders
• Proactive, xbpsjku self-sufficient, and comfortable operating in a changing environment

Desirable experience

• Experience developing or implementing an ICFR framework
• Exposure to finance risk registers and risk reporting
• Experience with policy and procedure development
• Strong process mapping skills (e.g. Visio)
• Experience working with finance systems and control enhancements

Why join Markerstudy?

• Opportunity to shape and influence a group-wide financial controls framework
• High visibility role with exposure to senior leadership and key decision-makers
• Broad scope across finance, risk, governance, and transformation
• Flexible hybrid working model
• Join a growing organisation investing in strengthening its controls and governance capability