Location: Remote - travel across the South of England and occasionally wider is required Salary: £39,579.20 per annum travel expenses Contract: Full time, 39 hours per week, Monday to Friday, Permanent Benefits include: - 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays - Private GP access and Employee Assistance Programme - Financial reward schemes and retailer discounts - A strong safety culture and commitment to diversity and inclusion - Death in Service benefit (4× salary) At Gov Facilities Services Limited (GFSL), we're more than a team, we're a community united by our values: Pride in People, Do the Right Thing, and One Team. Every day, we help create safe, secure, and positive environments across the prison estate, supporting rehabilitation and enabling real social impact. As a Risk & Assurance Analyst, you'll strengthen the frameworks that keep our organisation resilient, informed, and consistently improving. What We're Looking For Essential: - Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret data, spot patterns, and identify issues. - Clear, concise report writing skills suitable for senior stakeholders. - Ability to translate processes into accessible procedures and guidance. - Strong organisational skills with the capacity to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines. - Experience within risk, assurance, audit, governance, or a similar structured/compliance environment. - Ability to build effective relationships, provide constructive challenge, and improve risk and control information. - Collaborative, confident working style that supports the embedding of consistent risk and assurance practices. Desirable: - Experience in internal audit, assurance reviews, or risk management frameworks. - Training or qualifications in internal audit or risk management (or willingness to pursue them). - Familiarity with government or public sector standards such as The Orange Book. - Experience supporting governance reporting or committee preparation. - Understanding of role‑based access control (RBAC). This is an excellent opportunity to shape and influence how risk and assurance operate across GFSL. You'll work closely with colleagues across the organisation, providing constructive challenge, delivering robust assurance activity, and helping teams understand and strengthen their risk and control environment. Collaboration and autonomy sit at the heart of how we work. You'll be part of a supportive and knowledgeable team that shares insight, drives consistency, and continually strengthens our governance landscape. Your work will directly support informed decision‑making, organisational resilience, and the delivery of safe and high‑quality services across our estates. Explore a varied and rewarding career at GFSL. Welcome to careers at Gov Facilities Services Limited (GFSL). Joining us is your chance to help ensure prisons are secure and safe for prisoners and prison staff alike, and to play your part in helping prisoners reintegrate into society. You will find a strong focus on safety, a supportive, inclusive workplace, a competitive benefits package, and real opportunity to build your skills and progress. Explore facilities careers where you can make difference. Pride In People. We're passionate about promoting greater diversity and creating a workplace and culture where all employees have a voice that is heard, feel a sense of belonging and are empowered to be their true selves. We recognise the value that every single employee brings to the organisation. Everyone's needs at work are different and we are committed to doing our best to satisfy these differences whilst ensuring consistency and fairness for all. We promise to champion diversity and inclusion with ongoing learning and training, as well as career progression opportunities for everyone. Future plans. GFSL has been notified by its shareholder (MOJ) that the provision of FM services will in future be delivered by the private sector. This means that following a successful procurement process, GFSL's services will complete transfer to a private sector provider/providers no sooner than August 2027. Pride in People - Do the Right thing - One Team If you're collaborative, detail‑focused, and committed to driving robust, meaningful risk and assurance across our organisation, we'd love to hear from you. GFSL - An ISO 9001 Certified Company