Internal Controls Manager - Bath

Internal Controls Manager

£55,000-£60,000pa

Hybrid working from Bath: 3 days office / 2 days home

About Future

Future plc (http://www.futureplc.com) is a global specialist media group reaching 475 million+ passionate, intent-led users every month. Behind its world-class brands sits a powerful tech and data platform that fuels content, eCommerce, price comparison, advertising and subscriptions across websites, magazines, apps, events and social.

With a strong track record of growth, high cash generation and an asset-light model, Future continues to scale through its “platform effect” – engaging more users, more often, in more valuable ways.

As part of this evolution, Future is now hiring an Internal Controls Manager.  

The Opportunity

A genuinely influential position where you’ll shape, embed and elevate a scalable risk & control framework that supports Future’s next phase of growth. You'll work with senior leadership, Internal Audit and External Audit - simplifying complexity, driving consistency and ensuring governance is robust across a dynamic, expanding organisation.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the assessment and enhancement of the Group risk & control environment to ensure it is robust, scalable and future-ready.
• Maintain and evolve the Group Risk & Control Matrix, working closely with SLT/ELT stakeholders.
• Identify control gaps, inefficiencies and improvement opportunities across financial and operational processes.
• Bring a control-focused lens to the systems roadmap - ensuring new tech and automation strengthens the Group control environment.
• Partner with Internal and External Audit to ensure alignment, knowledge-sharing and effective governance.
• Own Group Incident Reporting, tracking remediation and reporting to the Operational Risk Committee.
• Support finance transformation projects, shaping risks, controls and scalable process mapping.

About You

• ACA, CIA (or equivalent) with strong technical and controls expertise.
• Experience in listed, regulated or SOX-style environments.
• Able to interpret complexity and turn it into clear, pragmatic solutions.
• Confident influencing senior stakeholders across Finance, Ops and Tech.
• Strong documentation, communication and presentation skills.
• Detail-driven, resilient and comfortable managing multiple priorities.

Why Join Future?

• Work for a FTSE-listed global media group undergoing exciting transformation.
• Be part of a newly shaped function where your work directly influences control maturity and best practice.
• High exposure across senior leadership and large-scale cross-functional programmes.
• Clear progression opportunities into broader controls, audit or finance leadership roles.

Benefits

• Uncapped annual leave
• Bonus scheme
• Share Incentive Plan
• Well-being support via Colleague Assistance Programmes
• Refer-a-friend rewards
• A fast-moving, innovative culture built around content, tech and data

For more information, please contact Steve Coyne at Coyne & Associates.