Assurance Officer

1 month ago


No Mans Heath, United Kingdom Ardonagh Advisory Full time

**Assurance Officer**-**Home Based - ARDHT843461**

**Purpose of the Role**

This exciting opportunity has arisen to join a growing Risk & Compliance (R&C) Team working home based but with travel to sites that may include overnight stays as business needs require.

Reporting to the R&C Assurance Manager, you will undertake second line assurance activity across the business segment in accordance with the Assurance Plan and/or as required by Group and/or Segment Governance Committees. In undertaking second line assuranceactivity, you will be undertaking an assessment on the design and operational effectiveness of first line controls and will provide remedial actions and recommendations, as applicable.

This role will promote a transparent and collaborative culture, holding the business area to account through the monitoring and continuous improvement of assurance related activities.

**What you will do**

This is an overview and not an exhaustive list of responsibilities. Collaborating with your line manager, you will develop your own objectives but focus on all of the following:

- Planning; site visits, agree dates and obtain engagement, data collation and analysis, undertaking control walkthroughs and timely production of terms of reference for review by the R&C Assurance Manager.
- Fieldwork; sample selection and testing, interviewing staff, obtaining sufficient and appropriate evidence to support findings, documenting findings and proposed remedial actions;
- Reporting; provision of feedback to business stakeholders, timely production of high-quality reports summarising the findings and remedial actions identified for review by R&C Assurance Manager.
- Timely escalation of matters arising / identified, particularly those which would be rated ‘Medium or High’, to the R&C Assurance Manager;
- Accurately logging information from the assurance activity on the Group’s risk management system, Decision Focus Next (‘DFN’) at key stages of the review;
- Actively contribute to the achievement of team goals/objectives, assimilating and embedding into the methodology and approach;
- To act in accordance with, and be an advocate for, Ardonagh’s Code of Conduct
- Participate and undertake applicable professional, technical and career development training

**Qualifications and Experience**
- Knowledge of working in an insurance environment is essential, preferably a broking setting.
- Working knowledge of the FCA handbook is also essential along with broking operations and processes.
- Relevant professional and/or audit qualification preferred (e.g. ACA, ACCA and/or other relevant professional qualification).

This is an opportunity for a detailed orientated, organised, individual who is able to interpret, analyse and evaluate data whilst prioritising workload and meeting deadlines in a dynamic and ever changing environment. You will need to be able to work withand communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels, work well under pressure to meet tight deadlines and use your initiative but be a team player. You will be managing confidential or sensitive matters at times so you will need to be able to delivertough messages and act diplomatically and with tact.

In return you will be welcomed and supported by our Ardonagh family and be joining an organisation that cares about you as a person and your wellbeing. Some of the other benefits are:

- Holiday entitlement of 26 days plus bank holidays
- Opportunity to progress your career across the entire Ardonagh family
- Pensions scheme for when you feel it’s time to retire
- 24-hour support for physical and mental wellbeing
- 1 days paid volunteering day to give back to our communities
- The Spotlight Awards, where we shine a light on the brightest talent across our group

Why not check us out on LinkedIn to find out what life’s really like at Ardonagh.

The Ardonagh Group is one of the UK’s largest independent brokers with over 9000 dedicated and passionate professionals across the country, and worldwide, facing and dealing with our clients’ challenges, offering an enviable range of products, services andsolutions to their clients. We are progressive, passionate and proud of the work we do, across all sectors of the business. Therefore, we need highly capable people to join our team to make this a reality

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