HR Risk & Compliance Senior Manager — Hybrid in Edinburgh

Responsibilities

• Operate effectively in a complex environment with multiple HR and firm stakeholders, managing competing agendas and ambiguity.
• Build and maintain trusted relationships with key business stakeholders across UK HR, EMEA, Global, and Enabling Functions.
• Drive the HR risk and compliance strategy, working with HR & Enabling Functions risk leaders and HR Centre of Excellence (CoE) colleagues to embed a robust HR risk framework.
• Oversee processes to treat HR risks and issues, ensuring compliance with HR legal, regulatory (e.g., FCA/SMCR, SRA, ICAEW, ISQM1, Legal Right to Work, EU AI Act, GDPR), and firm-wide standards, policies, and procedures.
• Leverage deep skills, knowledge, research, and business acumen to drive business value and impact in enterprise and operational risk management within a complex HR regulatory and legal landscape.
• Collaborate across the three lines of defence (HR, Quality & Risk, and Audit) to support People & Purpose focused outcomes and foster a nimble, cohesive, risk-aware culture within the HR team.
• Oversee the Business Continuity and resilience planning for HR.
• Continue to embed the HR Risk & Compliance framework using simple business language in an open and concise manner that shifts HR to a risk-aware culture.
• Provide coaching and guidance to HR Leaders and colleagues on matters aligned to HR risk and compliance.
• Embed an HR risk reporting and governance framework to support an insightful risk management portfolio view for key stakeholders.
• Support teams across HR to manage their processes, policies and supporting documentation (FAQ, Knowledge articles, IGrafx) aligned to the firm's quality standard.
• Partner with stakeholders across HR & HR Services to develop and embed accountability for standardised HR controls and frameworks to address key operational risks.
• Provide ongoing assurance of HR controls to initiative reviews and assessments where required.
• Develop deep knowledge of Deloitte's policies, processes, and obligations.

Essential Experience and Qualifications

• Experience operating at Senior Manager level with a deep working HR risk and compliance/operations knowledge and the demonstrated ability to shift with ease between strategic and tactical agendas.
• Experience building cross-functional partnerships and influencing stakeholders across the organisation to act without having a direct reporting relationship, with ability to tailor message and style appropriately to a senior stakeholder group; ability to win confidence quickly using simple business language and appropriate challenge will be key to success.
• Experience working in a highly commercial, fast paced, complex and transformative environment, ideally (not essentially), within Financial, Professional Services or Regulated environment.
• Experience in the provision of pro-active risk-based advice, balancing consistency of approach and decision making with pragmatic solutions that drive compliance.
• A problem solver, able to troubleshoot issues independently or escalated when necessary, sense of accountability and sound professional judgement.
• Ability to interpret data and use this to spot trends and make considered decisions quickly and with confidence.
• Comfortable in a fast-paced and complex matrix environment and relish working in a change environment while delivering to the business on a day-to-day basis.
• Understanding and ability to operate within a COE model and how to leverage those relationships to deliver risk-based judgements and projects.
• Experience building an environment of transparency and open communication to help influence change and build relationships.
• Experience leading a team.
• Understand expectations and demonstrate personal accountability for keeping team performance on track.

Desirable Experience

• Experience with Monday.com, Igrafx, Microsoft packages.
• Experience working within an HR environment, understanding HR law.

Personal Independence

Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process or you can contact the Independence team upon request.

Hybrid Working Policy

You will be based in one of our UK offices with hybrid working, combining local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remote work as required. Work conditions will be clarified with your recruiter.