Assurance Compliance Specialist - Leeds

Assurance Compliance Specialist

An exciting opportunity to join the Legal & Compliance function (Winner of the 2022 Legal Team of the Year - The Lawyer Awards) and help to deliver an award-winning compliance service.

The position is a specialist role within the Compliance Risk and Assurance Team, helping to provide two of the building blocks of Asda's Compliance programme - Monitoring and Risk Assessment. 

Working with Compliance Subject Matter Experts across the function, ranging from Health and Safety through to Data Protection, you will help to manage the Compliance Functional and Enterprise Risk Assessment process, supporting the development of Key Risk Indicators and systemised functionality. You will support the function to deliver robust and risk-based Level 2 Assurance across Asda, by providing agile and targeted assurance activity using business partnering networks, risk and assurance expertise and a dare to try, self-starter attitude.

"Everything about Asda"

We are a values-led Organisation. As such we encourage everyone to be open and honest. We work creatively and collaboratively, valuing everyone's input.

Our collaborative culture, the size of our business and our belief in the empowerment of the individual means opportunities at Asda are abundant.

We conduct 300m worth of transactions every week. Our website handles over 2 million transactions a month. We have more than 145,000 dedicated Asda colleagues ensuring that our customers are at the heart of everything we do.

"Everything you'll love"                                                                                                      

• Hybrid and flexible working - everyone is looking for that work/life balance and Asda have it on point. Flexible working meaning you work where it works to meet both your needs and the business needs
• Discretionary bonus - Rewarding you for your hard work and efforts
• Company Pension Scheme matched to a limit - Looking forward to the future
• Minimum 24 days annual leave per year plus 8 bank holidays - Making sure you take time for yourself and switch off
• 4 weekly pay - which means you get an extra payday a year
• Digital GP and Wellbeing sessions - Asda genuinely cares so we create a culture where our people can perform at their best, the physical health and mental wellbeing of all our people is very important to us
• Discount off your shopping at Asda and George - with extra discounts running throughout the year - really makes a difference, saving the colleagues an average of 700 a year
• Career development and apprenticeship and graduate schemes - we want our colleagues to excel and grow with our business. (Link to grad scheme on Asda page)
• Free city centre parking - you can also use it outside working hours

Plus, much more!

"That's more like it"

"Find your role"

You'll report into the Senior Manager for the Compliance Risk and Assurance Team and help to:

• Co-ordinate risk assessment activity, supporting and advising Compliance Subject Matter Experts undertaking assessments, and working with Internal Audit for timely delivery of Enterprise Risk Assessment metrics.
• Improve efficiency and reliability of Risk Assessment through development of systemised tools and integration of substantive data points to the process, including the development of Enterprise Key Risk Indicators.
• Support the development of agile assurance activity across the function to include - Assurance Mapping, Control Gap analysis/testing, development of systemised and embedded controls and monitoring, Due Diligence, etc.
• Support the integration of Future, Acquisition, and other Strategic project risks into Compliance Functional and Enterprise Risk Assessment process, supporting the development of action plans for mitigating compliance risk.
• Provide communication and awareness of emerging risks and other compliance hot topics through effective knowledge sharing within the function.
• Utilise Future Systems and processes to transform ways of working within the team and across the function.

"Let's find out about you"

For this role you must be able to demonstrate:

• Sound knowledge and understanding of the organisational benefits of a robust Risk Management and Assurance framework.
• Experience in the execution of risk and assurance activity such as auditing.
• Accountancy or Audit qualification is desirable.
• Ability to engage effectively and build successful working relationships with Key Stakeholders / Business Owners.
• Ability to work independently using your own initiative and as part of a team. 
• Ability to plan assurance activity from scratch, as well as to follow existing methodology.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
• Excellent data handling skills with good working knowledge of Microsoft functionality (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, PowerBI, etc.)
• Dare to Try attitude with an interest in using Future Systems to help transform the way we approach Risk and Assurance in a fast paced, everchanging retail landscape.

"Find your everything at Asda" - bringing brighter living within everyone's reach.
We are passionate about creating a diverse and inclusive workforce, representative of the communities we serve, and are creating ways to inspire diverse talent to join Asda.