VodafoneThree - Assurance Governance and Enablement Manager in Newbury

Location: Newbury as primary location, with other sites considered (Hybrid)

Salary: Excellent basic salary plus bonus and Vodafone benefits

Working hours: Full time 37.5 hours per week – Monday to Friday

What You’ll Do

• Support the day-to-day operation of the assurance model, ensuring consistent execution across all areas
• Track assurance control execution, ensuring activities are completed on time and to required standards
• Monitor control coverage and identify gaps, risks, or inconsistencies in execution
• Coordinate recovery and remediation plans, ensuring clear ownership and timely delivery
• Maintain oversight of risks, issues, dependencies, and key delivery milestones
• Act as a central coordination point across Assurance Pods, Transformation, and key stakeholders
• Produce high-quality governance packs, dashboards, and leadership reporting
• Provide regular updates on assurance performance, risks, and progress against strategy
• Ensure transparency and visibility of assurance activity across Finance Operations
• Support alignment of priorities across teams, ensuring focus on key risk areas
• Challenge and elevate where assurance execution is off track or below expected standards
• Drive consistency in reporting, governance, and execution frameworks
• Support continuous improvement of assurance processes, controls, and ways of working
• Facilitate cross-team communication and ensure a strong feedback loop into assurance delivery
• Act as deputy to the Assurance Enablement Manager, ensuring continuity of leadership when required

Who You Are

• You bring strong experience in assurance, risk, controls, or finance operations, with a good understanding of governance frameworks
• You are highly organised and detail‑oriented, with the ability to manage and track multiple complex activities simultaneously
• You’re confident working cross‑functionally, aligning teams and stakeholders without direct authority
• You communicate clearly and confidently, producing structured reporting and engaging senior stakeholders
• You have the ability to see both the detail and the bigger picture, maintaining end‑to‑end oversight
• You’re comfortable challenging and holding teams to account to ensure high standards are met
• You thrive in fast‑paced environments, bringing structure and clarity to ambiguity
• You’re proactive and solutions‑focused, always looking for ways to improve processes and outcomes
• You demonstrate strong ownership and accountability, with a focus on delivery and resultsYou’re motivated to develop into a broader assurance leadership role over time

We believe that everyone has valuable contributions to make. As a Disability Confident Employer, we actively encourage individuals with disabilities to apply for positions within our team.

What We Offer

We care about our people’s success by offering great pay, bonuses, up to 28 days off plus bank holidays, and paid time for charity work. You can personalise our benefits for you and your family, like discounts, vouchers, a pension plan and loads more. We help with your career through our amazing learning tools and top‑notch parental leave policies.

Need to Know

We are regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and all offers of employment for this role are subject to background checks, including criminal (DBS) and financial checks to meet the regulator’s standards.

If you require any reasonable adjustments or have an accessibility request as part of your recruitment journey, please refer to the Accessibility section of our Careers website for guidance.

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