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Tuesday 02 December 2025Salary Range
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Job Title: Digital Assets Risk & Control Manager
Salary: £65,385 - £72,650 (Depending on location)
Location: Birmingham, Glasgow or London
Hours: Full time
Working Pattern: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week currently, or 40% of our time, at our London, Glasgow or Birmingham office.
About us
We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you!
About this Opportunity
Join our journey to establish a centre of excellence for digital assets and currencies. As part of Group Payments, we focus on innovation in areas such as digital assets, tokenised deposits, stablecoins, programmable payments, and digital identity. We are looking to recruit a Risk and Control manager who will be responsible for leading and supporting the risk, controls, and compliance readiness for digital finance initiatives. This is an outstanding opportunity to join our Group Payments team and help ensure we deliver digital finance solutions in a safe and secure way.
What you’ll do….
Lead delivery of the risk and control framework for digital assets, ensuring alignment with regulatory expectations and internal policies.
Collaborate with the delivery team to embed a “control by design” approach.
Influencing senior stakeholders across Risk, Compliance, Product and Delivery Labs to integrate controls into strategic initiatives.
Design and execute high-quality risk assessments, compliance testing and gap analysis to monitor adherence to regulatory obligations and internal policies.
Prepare governance papers and reporting for internal and external audiences.
Monitor emerging risks and regulatory developments in the digital assets space, translating them into actionable control enhancements.
Support assurance activities including audits, attestations, and control testing, ensuring timely remediation of issues.
Champion automation and data-driven approaches to control monitoring and reporting.
What you’ll need…
Deep understanding of digital asset products and services, including tokenisation, stablecoins, custody, CBDCs, and Distributed Ledger technologies
Ability to assess wider risks and controls around digital assets, including technology, supplier, fraud, AML, and automated controls.
Familiarity with regulatory frameworks governing digital assets.
Excellent stakeholder engagement and influencing skills across senior leadership and cross-functional teams.
Exceptional writing and communication skills, with the ability to produce clear and concise documentation.
Experience with control tooling, automation, and data analytics for risk and control monitoring.
Analytical, detail-oriented, and continuous improvement mindset.
About working for us
Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.
We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.
We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.
And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.
We’re disability confident. So, if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.
We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance
Share schemes including free shares
Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people?
Join our journey!
At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.
We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.
We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.