Risk and Assurance Director (London) in Northwood

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Advert Close date: Friday 11th July 2025.

To be considered for an interview, please make sure your application is full in line with the job specs as found below.

Purpose of Role: The focus of the role is to support the Head of Internal Audit, Risk and Assurance to oversee Risk and Internal Audit across TCE. The Director will be responsible for managing delivery of the internal audit plan and supporting the business in risk management activities.

Main accountabilities:

• Play a key role, working across the business to support and oversee the delivery of internal audit assignments by a third party contractor and risk management activities.
• Work with teams in identification, scoring and management of risk – driving clear accountabilities in line with our operational excellence, compliance, safety first and customer experience programmes.
• Creation of risk and control standards and working with other governance teams to ensure that those standards are embedded and enforced throughout the development activities of the team – driving clear accountabilities and ownership.
• Lead risk workshops, assurance mapping workshops and support the business to understand their key risks and mitigating controls.
• Understanding of Corporate Governance requirements for reporting Principle Risks and Material Controls.
• Setting standards for effective and efficient controls and control testing for either risk or audit.
• Creation of oversight reporting and dashboards for management and Audit Committee and Board for review by the Head of function.
• Attend and contribute to Steering Groups, Governance Groups and Programme Boards and ensure audit and risk is appropriately escalated across TCE.
• Supporting the Head of Risk in the wider delivery of effective audit and risk management at TCE at both operational and strategic levels.
• Supporting the Head of Risk in the development of TCE-wide assurance arrangements, risks management.
• Supporting the business and learning areas such as Marine, Urban and Rural risk landscapes.
• Evaluating issues and determine when and how to escalate within the business.

Most important skills based requirements:

• Internal Audit, Audit Plan development, Assurance mapping and other assurance activities.
• Risk management (experience of, but not essential, business continuity, insurance, cyber risk, insurance, programme risk and sustainability).
• Risk and Audit Assignment Quality Assurance.
• Business partnering experience and experience in considering commercial / financial risk exposure within an organisation.
• Risk and control reporting.
• Audit Reporting; audit assignments, Audit Committee and Board reporting, Annual opinion reporting.
• Senior level exposure.
• Proven influencing skills.
• Ability to build effective partnerships with key stakeholders, including experience of working with senior stakeholders and Board members (Audit Committee Chairs).
• Excellent communication skills: ability to present information and ideas logically and succinctly; clearly explaining purpose and the assurance level for activities being undertaken.
• Clear and methodical planning and project management approach to both audit and risk.
• High attention to detail, with consideration of the wider and strategic business implications.
• Demonstrable analytical skills.

Our Offering / benefits: As well as a competitive salary, pension and performance related bonus offering, we have a wealth of benefits available ranging from flexible working; market leading family policies and shopping discounts in the West End, to private healthcare; life and critical illness cover and 28 days holiday with the option to buy more. We value work life balance and your wellbeing highly, enabling you to be your best self to work.

Disability Disclaimer: We are a proud disability confident employer and operate the offer of interview scheme. We are happy to offer alternative application methods or formats and can be flexible on our process to enable you to have the best opportunity. If you have any questions about our recruitment process or would like to talk about adjustments, please contact us on careers@thecrownestate.co.uk.

The Crown Estate is a unique business with a distinct heritage and a portfolio unlike any other. It includes some of central London’s best places to work, shop and spend time, retail and leisure destinations across the country, and a substantial rural portfolio. As manager of the seabed and half the foreshore around England, Wales and Northern Ireland, we play a role in the UK’s world-leading offshore wind sector as well as marine aggregates, cables and pipelines. We are also responsible for the Windsor Estate, including the world-renowned Windsor Great Park.