Head of Assurance

7 days ago

London, United Kingdom MERJE Ltd Full time

£95,000

The Head of Assurance is a new role and will be a key element of the business’ control and oversight function. It is a global role, responsible for maturing, designing, overseeing and growing a consistent and comprehensive assurance testing and oversightapproach.

This will include a framework for monitoring, testing, reporting, governance and escalation, and interacting with existing risks and controls frameworks. It is also an exciting opportunity to build a team and demonstrate and develop team leadership skills.The Head of Assurance will report into the Head of Risk and Regulatory.

The role will require you to:

- Build and lead a team of assurance testing experts with a broad range of expertise
- Manage and proactively enhance global assurance and testing framework. This will include maturing, developing and maintaining a combination of controls, training, risk assessment, policies, procedures and management information
- Develop and manage a programme of assurance testing covering regulated entities globally
- Prepare and deliver assurance methodologies and outputs to relevant audiences (peers, compliance leadership, executive committee, board of directors) highlighting key initiatives, regulatory trends and areas of concern.
- Share knowledge on internal trends and wider industry developments within the compliance department
- Manage and provide mentorship to junior team members within controls functions
- Provide training to teams on existing and emerging assurance and testing insights
- Build a network within product and client-facing teams to enable you to remain up-to-date on changes in the wider business (products, jurisdictions etc.). Act proactively to assess how these may integrate with the assurance and testing framework
- Provide constructive and clear feedback to team members’ queries on assurance matters
- Team Management

Skills and Experience:

- An understanding of 'what good looks like’ for assurance frameworks, drivers of risk, controls and industry good practice
- Experience of building and developing assurance frameworks (in first, second or third line context or as an external consultant)
- Strong attention to detail and excellent organisational skills

Good understanding of control design assessment and effectiveness testing techniques and practices

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