Graduate

Overview

Yorkshire Water Graduate Scheme – Graduate Risk and Compliance Graduate

Yorkshire Water delivers essential water and wastewater services to over 5.4 million people. But we’re more than taps and toilets—we protect the environment, support communities, and help shape Yorkshire’s future.

Salary & Benefits

• Starting salary: £32,000, rising to £37,000 by end of year 2
• Extras: £2,000 signing bonus, annual bonus, 25 days holiday + bank holidays + wellness day
• Pension: Up to 12% company contribution
• Permanant substantive role offer upon completion of programme subject to performance
• Flexible Benefits Package
• Includes health cash plan, critical illness and dental insurance, life assurance flex (with partner cover), retail discounts, online GP access, cycle-to-work scheme, gym membership savings, and more.

Note: This description preserves the original information; see sections below for details.

Location

West Yorkshire with requirement for flexible travel across Yorkshire & Humber.

Work type

37 hours per week between a working window of 8:00am-6:00pm Monday – Friday

Why Yorkshire Water?

Yorkshire Water delivers essential water and wastewater services to over 5.4 million people. But we’re more than taps and toilets—we protect the environment, support communities, and help shape Yorkshire’s future.

From tackling climate change to planning for droughts and floods, we’re solving some of the biggest challenges facing our region and we need talented graduates to help us do it.

Your Graduate Programme

Our two-year programme offers you five placements across your allocated business area, complemented by a choice of placements to suit your personal development needs in core functions such as Finance, Health & Safety, People, and Procurement, enabling you to have a balanced understanding of the business. You’ll gain hands-on experience, technical and leadership training, and support from mentors, managers, graduate alumni, and our Early in Careers team to support you from the day you make the decision to join us.

By the end of the scheme, you’ll be ready to step into a permanent role and make a lasting impact.

Your Team

Our Audit, Risk & Compliance team aim to protect and enhance Yorkshire Waters long term resilience and compliance. We act as trusted advisors to the business, to protect, enhance, and deliver value by helping the business to do the right thing.

Our whole team covers a range of disciplines including Internal Audit, Risk Management, Insurance, Compliance and Assurance. Across the disciplines we engage with a range of functions and stakeholders across Yorkshire Water.

We help the business to identify and assess the range of compliance obligations and risk’s that we need to manage. We also provide independent assurance to help the business to learn and do the right thing. All of this is really important in assisting our leaders and board members in their roles of leadership, oversight and challenge. In a regulated industry, and with a huge responsibility to our customers and the environment, there’s a lot to do.

We’re looking for Graduates with a desire to specialise across Risk and Compliance, and we have an ambitious agenda to enhance and improve our risk and control environment that you can contribute to.

Your Role

As a Risk & Compliance Graduate, you will

• Join our Risk & Compliance teams to support programmes that strengthen our risk and control environment, such as improving risk registers, enhancing risk management frameworks, or advancing compliance and assurance initiatives.
• Support the identification, evaluation, and ongoing management of risks—both emerging and existing—on the corporate risk register.
• Support facilitation of risk management workshops and training sessions, embedding best practices throughout the organisation.
• Review and test the effectiveness of controls, identifying gaps and recommending improvements to reduce risk exposure.
• Help maintain the Compliance Database to ensure regulatory standards are met.
• Support review of our Principal Risk and our Risk Appetite positions, with benchmarking and insight and consideration of corporate strategy, to help the team to provide effective risk advice and update to leaders.
• Ensure that risk information is accurately reflected in business reports and dashboards and assist in preparing compliance assessments and reports for senior leadership and the Board.
• Assist with the group insurance programme administration and recommendations; balancing risk insight together with risk treatment options for consideration.

What you’ll need to be successful:

• Enthusiasm, curiosity, and a drive to succeed.
• A willingness to learn and adapt in a fast-changing industry.
• UK Driving Licence and access to own vehicle
• Excellent communication skills; able to engage with colleagues at every level, able to translate complex technical terms into easy to understand explanations, ability to summarise for senior leaders and board level reports, and an ability to draw out risks, controls and actions from the knowledge of others

Key Dates

We’re proud to serve Yorkshire and are committed to building a diverse, inclusive workforce that reflects our communities. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds.

Successful candidates will undergo pre-employment checks, including a Basic Disclosure via a third-party provider. Some roles may also require Counter Terrorist or Security Check clearance.

Kelda Group reserve the right to close applications early, so we recommend applying as soon as possible