Trust & Finance Assurance Analyst

Join our journey to create a new experience for the National Lottery and help us to power change for the greater good.

About us:

We are Allwyn UK, part of the Allwyn Entertainment Group – a multi-national lottery operator with a market-leading presence in Austria, the Czech Republic, Greece, Cyprus and Italy.  We have been officially awarded the Fourth Licence (10 year licence) to operate the National Lottery starting February 2024.

‍We’ve developed ground-breaking technologies, built player protection frameworks, and have a proven track record of making lotteries better.  Our aim is to create one of the UK’s most inclusive organisations – where people can bring the best of themselves, to do their best work, every day, for the benefit of good causes.

Allwyn is an Equal Opportunity Employer which prides itself in being diverse and inclusive. We do not tolerate discrimination, harassment, or victimisation in the workplace.  All employment decisions at Allwyn are based on the business needs, the job requirements, and the individual qualifications.  Allwyn encourages applications from individuals regardless of age, disability (visible or hidden), sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

While the main contribution of the National Lottery to society is through the funds to good causes, at Allwyn we put our purpose and values at the heart of everything we do.  Join us as we embark on a once-in-a-lifetime, largescale transformation journey to build a bigger, better, and safer National Lottery that delivers more money to good causes.  

Role Purpose:

• To support and deliver the funds protection outcome and to ensure Allwyn complies with the requirements set out in the 4th Licence.
• To work closely within the business to ensure the Assurance Framework is embedded and is being adhered to within the Finance Department.
• Proactively assessing and measuring design effectiveness and efficiency of key controls to manage key business risks across Finance.
• Support and work closely with the operational Finance Teams to ensure keys risks and control are assessed in accordance with the Compliance Self-Assessment. Framework and the Trust & Finance Assurance 2nd Line testing methodology.
• Support the review of the Funds Protection and Finance Risk Register, liaising with the risk owners to ensure all risks are captured effectively.
• Be responsible for delivering Trust & Finance Assurance testing and reviews.
• Perform and deliver ad hoc compliance reviews at the request of the Central Assurance Team and/or the Trust & Finance Assurance Manager.
• Manage the day-to-day assurance activities.

The role reports to the Trust & Finance Assurance Manager

Role Responsibilities: 

• Act as an influencer to sustainably enhance and embed the culture of compliance across the teams within the Finance Function.
• Be instrumental in creating and embedding mechanics across the business, specifically the Finance department to enable a forward looking, risk anticipating, Compliance Function.
• Work closely with the business to proactively mitigate and prevent risks identified from materialising.
• Actively contribute to the efficiency of Allwyn’s risk registers within the Finance department, taking ownership of the relevant risk registers and escalating key findings as appropriate
• Maintain the Finance Incident Log, seeking resolution to issues that arise, identifying where controls can be strengthened to prevent recurrence.
• Develop a strong working understanding of Allwyn procedures, policies, and processes.
• Assist and be responsible for preparation of reports and MI related to Compliance for senior management.
• Maintain a suite of key controls which are updated regularly to ensure control self-assessment remains relevant and up to date.
• Execution of Allwyn’s Self-Assessment Programme, monitoring progress, coverage, intervening when required, producing reports, and making recommendations; identifying compliance risks associated with the business activities. Follow up on resolution of compliance issues that may arise.
• Ensuring all activities are supported by adequate documentation, peer reviews and quality checks.
• Build and maintain relationships with colleagues around the business, including control operators, to ensure that policy advice is consistently reflected in policies.
• Work with key stakeholders to train and educate on the importance of compliance.

Key Measures of Success:

• Ensuring Funds Protection Outcome is adhered to.
• Always ensuring, work is carried out with integrity.
• Sharing Best practice.
• Ensuring all testing and reviews are carried out effectively.
• Building a culture of compliance.

Key Skills and Experience:

• Audit and Compliance experience preferable, though not essential.
• Exposure to strong controls and compliance environments and been part of supporting and developing compliance/control frameworks.
• Ability to write reports to communicate findings and propose solutions.
• Proven experience as a Compliance/Assurance Analyst.
• Bright, highly analytical, and intellectually agile, able to learn and manage complexity quickly.
• High level of integrity and independence whilst also able to successfully partner with the business in meaningful ways through building trusting relationships and connections.
• A collaborator, influencer, good listener, to build consensus and a constructive working relationship across the organisation.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to/potential to influence a variety of internal and external stakeholders.
• Good commercial acumen and strategic mind-set.
• Experience in business operations, along with regulatory exposure.

• 34 days paid leave (This includes bank holidays)
• 2 x Life Days
• 4 x Salary of Life Insurance
• Pension: We’ll contribute 8.5%
• BUPA
• £500 wellness allowance
• Income Protection