The control manager is the person(s) in the organization responsible for ensuring that a given control is in place. It may be a control to ensure compliance with a legal requirement, a control necessary to manage a risk, a control to ensure that an activity is carried out properly within a specific process.
Control managers are not always the performers of control activities, but the control manager is the person within the organization to whom others turn when a specific control needs to be expanded or changed.
The control manager can easily see which controls he or she is responsible for, which planned actions are linked to these controls and which risks the controls are intended to manage. In cases where controls are linked to requirements, such as legal requirements, standard requirements or other stakeholder requirements, the control manager can also see this at an overall level.
