The role
has been designed to lead projects and activities and therefore you will need to have the ability to work autonomously with confidence.
Day-to-day, you’ll:
1. Provide support to the Risk and Assurance team in key areas of Risk, Insurance, Assurance, Business Continuity, ABC, Insurance and Business Management System
2. Take ownership and manage focused projects assigned by the Risk LT which cumulate to the delivery to the objectives of the Risk Team
3. Lead the activity to generate content and prepare review packs for the Company’s Leadership Team and Boards as directed by the Chief Risk Officer
4. Manage Enterprise Risk Management activities; including stakeholder engagement, development and delivery of training/mentoring programmes and assessment of trends and best practice of enterprise risk management
5. Manage and co-ordinate events such as the bi-annual self cert process and risk register completion
6. Participate in and manage Assurance Reviews and assessments
7. Provide support to day-to-day Data Protections tasks, such as Privacy Impact Assessments and Subject Access Requests
8. Support and promote a positive and innovative risk and assurance culture, seeking and contributing to improvement initiatives, and engaging with business managers to ensure lessons learned are understood and embedded
Essential experience of the Assurance Associate:
9. An understanding of Compliance, assurance and risk management
10. The ability to analyse complex data
11. Experience in compliance, assurance, risk management, business continuity, business management systems, data protection, insurance and commercial intermediaries
12. Experience of defence, financial services and other regulated industries
13. A good understanding of relevant regulations and industry standards
Qualifications required for the Assurance Associate:
14. University Degree in Business, Finance or a related field
Our Benefits
15. Adaptive and flexible working
16. Generous holiday allowance
17. Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance
18. Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
19. Employee discount portal: Personal Accident Insurance, Travel Insurance, Restaurants, Cinema Tickets and much more.
20. Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows most employees to buy up to 5 days’ additional leave.
21. We are proud to support the Armed Forces community by honouring the Armed Forces Covenant.
22. Payroll Giving and Volunteering - helping charities and local community.
Our volunteering programme enables our people to use their professional skills to make a positive difference in our local communities, for example STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) ambassador days in schools. We support a number of charities that are important to our people, including those which help the defence community.
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Why Join QinetiQ?
As we continue to grow into new markets around the world, there’s never been a more exciting time to join QinetiQ. The formula for success is our appetite for innovation and having the courage to take on a wide variety of complex challenges.
You’ll experience a unique working environment where teams from different backgrounds, disciplines and experience enjoy collaborating widely and openly as we undertake this exciting and rewarding journey. Through effective teamwork, and pulling together, you’ll get to experience what happens when we all share different perspectives, blend disciplines, and link technologies; constantly discovering new ways of solving complex problems in a diverse and inclusive environment where you can be authentic, feel valued and realise your full potential. Visit our website to read more about our diverse and inclusive workplace culture.