About this role
Compliance Controls & Assurance Manager
Surrey (Hybrid)
12-Month Contract
£500 per day PAYE
A leading international organisation is seeking a Compliance Controls & Assurance Manager to join its Group Ethics & Integrity function. This is an excellent opportunity for someone with a background in internal audit, compliance, risk, assurance or internal controls who enjoys assessing control effectiveness, identifying gaps and driving remediation across a complex global business.
Working within a high-profile governance and ethics team, you'll play a key role in evaluating the design and effectiveness of controls relating to business ethics and integrity risks, while supporting wider assurance and governance initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
- Deliver risk-based testing of ethics, compliance and integrity controls across international operations
- Assess the design and operating effectiveness of controls through evidence reviews, walkthroughs and stakeholder interviews
- Evaluate documentation against control objectives and evidence requirements
- Document testing methodology, findings, conclusions and recommendations
- Identify control weaknesses, root causes and opportunities for improvement
- Track remediation activities and support management in strengthening control environments
- Partner with stakeholders across Compliance, Legal, HR, Finance, Procurement and Internal Audit
- Contribute to assurance reporting and controls framework enhancements
- Support wider ethics, governance and integrity projects as required
About You
- Degree qualified or professionally qualified (Audit, Risk, Compliance, Accounting or similar)
- 5+ years' experience within Internal Audit, External Audit, Compliance, Risk, Assurance or Internal Controls
- Experience assessing control design and operating effectiveness
- Strong understanding of governance, risk and controls frameworks
- Confident reviewing evidence and producing assurance reports and findings
- Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence across senior business functions
- Experience working within a large international organisation
- Highly analytical, organised and detail-oriented
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Desirable Experience
Exposure to ethics and integrity risk areas such as
- Anti-Bribery & Corruption
- Fraud Risk
- Sanctions Compliance
- Conflicts of Interest
- Third-Party Risk Management
- Anti-Money Laundering
- Human Rights & Modern Slavery
Additional European language skills (Spanish, German, French or Dutch) would be advantageous but are not essential.
This is an opportunity to join a globally recognised business in a role offering significant visibility, exposure to senior stakeholders and involvement in a mature and evolving ethics and compliance programme.
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