Audit and Risk Senior Manager

As a Senior Manager you will deliver risk management, audit and compliance activities across the Group, ensuring these activities are focused on value creation and critical risk areas within the business.

Client Details

Large Corporate business based in the West Midlands.

Description

Deliver risk management, audit and compliance activities across the Group, ensuring these activities are focussed on value creation and critical risk areas within the business. This includes the operation of the Group's risk management framework, delivering effective compliance programs to help the business manage key risks associated with legal and regulatory obligations, and managing internal audit activities. A trusted, commercially focussed partner operating as the conscience of the business and collaborating with colleagues at all levels.

Role Accountabilities:

• Support the Senior Risk, Audit & Compliance Manager to enhance and embed the Group's risk management framework ensuring there are processes in place to capture and manage key risks across the Group.
• Lead risk meetings with the businesses, functions and LT ensuring key risks are understood and evaluated and control improvement plans are put in place where required.
• Develop, implement and embed companywide policies, procedures and awareness raising programs to manage key legal and regulatory compliance risks.
• Support the Senior Risk & Audit Manager to develop and implement the Group's response to the ECCTA, to ensure appropriate controls are in place to mitigate key fraud risks.
• Deliver the Group's internal audit activity to provide independent assurance that controls are well designed and operate effectively and mitigate key risks.
• Support the Senior Risk & Audit Manager to maintain the audit universe ensuring independent assurance is being directed towards key business risks at an appropriate frequency, updating the universe as the business grows and develops and its risk profile changes.
• Develop, implement and continuously improve the Group's business continuity framework, supporting the business with plans to mitigate significant continuity risks.
• Manage whistleblowing investigations, with the ability to gather, analyse, and evaluate facts and prepare and present concise reports.
• Provide best practice process, control and efficiency improvement advice to businesses and functions.
• Establish and maintain effective stakeholder relationships, ensuring the risk, audit & compliance team is closely connected with the business operations and support functions, whilst remaining independent and not compromising on standards.
• Keep up to date with best practices and latest developments in risk, controls and audit and reflect this in the function's strategy.
• Perform other ad-hoc duties as appropriate, including undertaking special projects / investigations.

Profile

Required Practical and Technical Knowledge:

• Experience in an external audit, internal audit, risk management or assurance role.
• Educated to degree level, with a professional qualification in accountancy, internal audit, or risk management, (e.g. ACA/ACCA/IIA/IRM).
• Knowledge of risk management techniques and internal control frameworks (e.g. COSO).
• Strong analytical skills, able to quickly identify and present key issues concisely and impactfully.
• Strong stakeholder management, interpersonal and communication skills, capable of collaborating with and influencing stakeholders at all levels of the business.
• Experience of working across a large, complex organisation - interacting with all functional areas.
• Committed to developing and embedding best practice, innovation and continuous improvement.
• Able to deliver at pace, alone and as part of a team.

Desirable:

• Experience of a complex commercial environment such as a multi-site B2B service, construction industry, or distribution business.
• Knowledge of utilising data analytics (e.g. IDEA, ACL, etc.) or business intelligence applications (e.g. Tableau, Power BI, etc.) to improve risk and controls monitoring.

Knowledge of compliance requirements, (e.g. Competition Law, Data Protection, Anti-Bribery & Corruption, Anti-Money Laundering, Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act).

Job Offer

Up to mid £70s basic plus car allowance + benefits.

Hybrid role - 3 days in office.