The Senior Compliance Assurance Officer plays a key role in delivering effective, risk-based compliance assurance across the EMAP region. This role is suited to someone who can combine strong hands-on assurance delivery with a broader responsibility to contribute to the continuous improvement across the function.
You will lead and support compliance assurance reviews across a broad and varied business environment, working with stakeholders to assess controls, identify and test compliance risks, report findings clearly, and help drive actions through to resolution.
What You'll Be Doing:
Lead assurance reviews and regional delivery
- Plan and execute compliance assurance reviews in line with the Global Compliance Management Programme and the annual EMAP Compliance Assurance Plan
- Define review scope, testing approach, and review programmes
- Build and perform testing of compliance controls
- Conduct fieldwork, reviews, and fact-finding meetings
- Maintain clear, accurate, and high-quality working papers
Turn findings into action
- Prepare reports that clearly set out findings, risks, conclusions, and required actions
- Work with business owners and management to agree practical action plans and mitigation steps
- Track agreed actions through to closure and report on progress
- Escalate high-risk issues where appropriate
Shape the wider assurance approach
- Support the Head of Compliance Assurance in developing and implementing the compliance risk monitoring and testing process
- Provide input into the annual Compliance Assurance Plan
- Support other EMAP Compliance colleagues in undertaking compliance testing and applying a consistent assurance approach
- Help maintain and evolve the EMAP Compliance Assurance methodology, reporting templates, and GenAI tooling to improve productivity and effectiveness
- This role will be reporting to the Head of Compliance, Monitoring, EMEA, APAC.
What You'll need to bring to the team:
- Good working knowledge of EU privacy and data protection regulation and its key principles
- Experience planning and delivering assurance or testing reviews from scoping through reporting
- Confidence using Excel and PowerPoint and developing or maintaining analysis and reporting tools
- Strong organisation, planning, and project management capability
- Around 5 years of experience in monitoring, testing, assurance, or audit within regulatory compliance
- Experience working in a substantial regulated organisation, ideally in Financial Services