Risk, Compliance and Independence Manager

About this role

We’re Gravita: the accountants fuelling ambitious businesses. We’re a full service, tech-enabled firm, working with entrepreneurs and businesses to help them achieve their goals, and make an impact in the world.

We’re growing fast and are bringing like-minded advisors together to form a full-service tech-enabled accounting partner for thousands of SMEs. Our team use their incredible expertise alongside intuitive technology to help businesses and entrepreneurs plan better and grow faster.

Our mission is to become the UK’s leading tech-enabled accounting firm for SMEs. We have ambitious goals and our high-calibre team work hard to achieve them. We are one team with one agenda, working collaboratively in a respectful environment to deliver a great service to our clients. So if you join us, you’ll not only be working on exciting client challenges, you’ll also be helping us shape the future of accounting.

The Role

We are seeking a proactive and commercially minded Risk, Compliance and Independence Manager to join our Technical & Compliance Team.

The role is ideally suited to an individual with strong risk management and compliance experience across a range of areas, and a deep interest in widening their knowledge and supporting across all areas of risk management. This is a varied role requiring strong judgement, excellent stakeholder management skills and the ability to provide practical, risk-based advice in a fast-growing professional services environment.

The successful candidate will play a key role is maintaining compliance with evolving regulatory compliance requirements and work closely with senior members of the Technical & Compliance Team, partners, service line leaders and operational teams from across the firm to identify, assess and manage risks associated with the firm's audit, tax and advisory activities, whilst helping to maintain a strong culture of compliance and ethical behaviour.

Key Responsibilities:**

Engagement risk and professional standards.

Reviewing and approving changes to engagement letters and terms of business, keeping our templates sharp, and advising partners and client teams on the contractual, professional, regulatory and reputational risks that come with client work, including engagement acceptance and continuance.

Enterprise risk.

Helping to embed and grow our risk management framework, maintaining risk registers and mitigation plans, running risk assessments across the business, and supporting clear reporting on emerging risks to senior management and governance forums.

Data protection.

Acting as a key point of contact for the firm on UK GDPR, handling data protection incidents, data subject access requests and privacy impact assessments, and building awareness through policy, training and ongoing improvements to our framework.

Financial crime.

Supporting our Money Laundering Reporting Officer across anti-money laundering, sanctions, anti-bribery and fraud, contributing to investigations and monitoring, and helping to strengthen the controls and awareness programmes that keep the firm safe.

Ethics and independence.

Supporting the Head of Ethics on conflicts of interest, independence assessments and non-audit service reviews, and helping to shape the policies, monitoring and training that sit behind them.

Complaints and service line partnering.

Helping to investigate and resolve client complaints and spot the themes worth learning from, and acting as a trusted adviser to our tax and managed business services leaders on the risks affecting their teams and clients.

Qualifications, Knowledge & Experience

What you'll need

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Experience in risk, compliance or a closely related field, gained in professional services or a similarly regulated environment

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Sound judgement and the confidence to give clear, practical, risk-based advice

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Strong written and verbal communication, and the ability to build relationships and constructively challenge people at every level

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A well organised, analytical approach with a good eye for detail

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A pragmatic, solutions-focused mindset

It would help if you also had

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A professional qualification in risk, compliance, law, governance, audit or accountancy (we don't mind which, and it isn't essential)

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Exposure to any of: engagement or contractual risk, AML and financial crime, UK GDPR, or the FRC Ethical Standard and ICAEW Code of Ethics

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Experience within an accountancy, audit, tax or advisory setting

Your Career with Gravita**

When you join Gravita, we’ll support you on your own growth journey. We want to be the place you learn, grow and unlock your true potential.

We’ll work with you to build a progression plan to outline how you’ll grow at our company and everything we’ll do to help you get there. We’re also passionate about learning and development, to help you focus on your future.

The Nitty Gritty

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Our standard working week is a 37.5-hour week on a hybrid basis

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Core working hours are 10am - 4pm Monday to Friday

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Flexible working and happy employees are at the top of our list here at Gravita and we have been working hard to support our teams through the fast-paced changes.

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Your development won’t be forgotten, our development support is extraordinary for a firm of our size.

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It's a busy, fast-paced environment here at Gravita. Feel free to check out our social media channels (Instagram, X, LinkedIn and Glassdoor).

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