Director of Governance, Reporting and Assurance

Location: Hybrid, UK

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Drive Clarity, Confidence And Accountability at The Heart of a Global Organisation

The role

As Director of Governance, Reporting and Assurance, you will lead the strategy, frameworks and systems that ensure robust governance, effective oversight and high‑quality insight across the organisation. Your work will directly support Senior Leaders, Executives and the Board with clear, evidence‑based intelligence to enable confident, informed decision‑making. You will influence Executive and Board‑level thinking by delivering clear, evidence‑based insights that drive accountability and strengthen performance. This role offers the opportunity to lead enterprise‑wide frameworks and systems, enhancing transparency and enabling smarter, faster decision‑making across a complex international environment.

Day‑to‑day, you will be responsible for:

• Leading the design and delivery of governance, assurance, and reporting frameworks across the organisation
• Driving risk‑based assurance programmes to evaluate system effectiveness and regulatory compliance
• Developing high‑quality management information, dashboards, and reporting for Executive and Board stakeholders
• Establishing policies, standards, and systems that enable strong accountability and consistent decision‑making
• Engaging with Regulators and Auditors, ensuring audit readiness and delivering robust, evidence‑based insights

This role is full time, 37.5 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with days in the office and days working from home.

Essential Experience

• Extensive senior leadership experience within governance, reporting, and assurance in complex, regulated organisations
• Proven track record delivering enterprise‑wide governance frameworks and executive‑level reporting
• Strong experience leading risk‑based assurance programmes and driving measurable business improvement
• Deep understanding of enterprise risk management and internal control frameworks
• Experience engaging with regulators and auditors, including audit preparation and inspection readiness

Qualifications

• Degree‑level education or equivalent professional experience
• Relevant professional qualifications or memberships (such as Institute of Internal Auditors, Institute of Risk Management, or Institution of Occupational Safety and Health) are desirable

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) and Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role. Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK.

What we offer

• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10 days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity

Babcock

We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 people working together to make a difference. Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work‑life balance. We call that lifetime engineering. Join us and see how far we can go, together.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.