Internal Audit & Risk Manager (12 month Fixed Term Contract)

This exciting FTC opportunity will see the successful candidate delivering both internal audit and risk management (including business continuity) activities here at ASOS and playing a key role within the Internal Audit & Risk team. Our approach is continually evolving and improving so we will also be looking for you to identify where we can be more effective and efficient share your ideas and take ownership for putting them in place. Delivering all of this within a dynamic fast paced ambitious and maturing company can be challenging but fun and there is plenty of opportunity to make your mark.

After insourcing our internal audit activities and delivering a risk management transformation project in the last few years we are playing a key and growing part in supporting ASOS success as its control environment matures. We need someone who can act as a team ambassador with the business as we continue to embed and build our profile and bring our value proposition to life for our stakeholders.

The Details

• Helping the Group to manage its risks through identifying planning performing and reporting on internal audit and advisory work agreeing pragmatic and value add control improvements with management. Taking responsibility for designing and delivering your own portfolio of work.
• Tracking control improvement actions with management and advising your stakeholders on remediation to drive positive change and on time action closure. Providing advice and challenge on relevant areas of governance good practice including risk management controls and data.
• Supporting the embedding delivery and maturity of our Risk Management and Business Continuity Frameworks working closely with functional risk champions and your management stakeholders.
• Supporting functions and your Risk Champions with regular risk reviews agreeing and tracking actions horizon scanning risk assurance activities and updating our principal risks.
• Helping to develop updated business impact analyses updating crisis management and business continuity plans and delivering education training and exercises as well as supporting with crisis response (as required).
• Striving to continually improve adopt and embed new tools techniques and methodologies in alignment with our team culture. Also helping to set and continually update our annual internal audit Plan and Risk Management Standard and refine our internal processes.
• Identifying opportunities for using data analytics automation and technology within our team and for ASOS when delivering internal audits and risk management and business continuity activities.
• Building strong functional relationships and managing communications with your stakeholders. Working collaboratively with the business to drive ASOS internal controls assurance and risk and control culture maturity agendas whilst maintaining independence.
• Drafting Audit Committee and Management Committee reporting. Designing and preparing other assurance reporting and team documentation.
• Splitting your time between internal audit and risk management related activities (approximately 60%/40%).
• Supporting our culture by championing Diversity Equity & Inclusion strategies.

Qualifications :

We are looking with someone who has a relevant qualification (e.g. CCAB IRM other data/ESG related) and/or significant postqualification experience in a risk and control focused business area. This could be internal audit enterprise risk management controls assurance data ESG compliance or another relevant industry or practicebased role.

About You

• Strong diverse technical background which could include experience with assuring implementing or operating financial (including SOx)/operational/compliance/ESG/other control frameworks operational auditing IT governance or process transformation /improvement.
• Strong risk and controls awareness experience of complex and less mature operating environments and analytical and problemsolving skills.
• Strong negotiation and influencing skills with the willingness to work with the business to understand commercial perspectives when defining fit for purpose governance and controls. Someone who wants to make a difference and is excited about getting stuck in and adding value.
• Excellent stakeholder management and relationship building skills with the ability to lead thinking on risk management governance compliance and internal control best practice in an ecommerce/retail environment.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. The ability to tailor their approach to deliver clear powerful and succinct messages to audiences at differing levels.
• Selfmotivation and the ability to work proactively alone as well as part of team. The ability to multitask deal with competing priorities and someone with the flexibility and agility to deal with the ambiguity that comes from working within a less mature fast paced and everchanging business and risk landscape.
• (An advantage but not essential) Excellent data analysis skills (e.g. Excel Python) and data visualisation skills (e.g. Power BI Tableau) and experience applying these in real world settings.

Additional Information :

BeneFITS 

• Employee discount (hello ASOS discount!) 
• ASOS Develops (personal development opportunities across the business) 
• Employee sample sales  
• Access to a huge range of LinkedIn learning materials 
• 25 days paid annual leave an extra celebration day for a special moment 
• Discretionary bonus scheme  
• Private medical care scheme 
• Flexible benefits allowance which you can choose to take as extra cash or use towards other benefits 

Why take our word for it Search #InsideASOS on our socials to see what life at ASOS is like. 

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime