Copy of Risk Management and Compliance Programme Monitoring Lead

Turner & Townsend; Leeds; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in professional services seeks a Risk Management and Compliance Programme Monitoring Lead in Leeds. This global role involves supporting risk insights, developing methodologies, and ensuring compliance through effective reporting and stakeholder management. Ideal candidates will have a finance or legal background, demonstrating strong analytical and leadership skills.

Benefits

Healthy work-life balance

Flexible working environment

Diversity and inclusion initiatives

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience in Risk/Compliance monitoring, auditing or continuous improvement role.
• Experience auditing financial crime compliance areas.
• Ability to communicate complex risk topics.

Responsibilities

• Support the Risk Management team with data analytics tools.
• Develop and deliver a Risk Management Monitoring Plan.
• Prepare monitoring reports for various stakeholders.

Skills

Analytical skills

Leadership

Attention to detail

Communication skills

Education

Qualified accountant, auditor or lawyer

Tools

Excel

Job description

Company Description

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.
Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.
Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.

We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.

Please visit our website: www.turnerandtownsend.com

Job Description

The Risk Management and Compliance Programme Monitoring Lead is primarily responsible for developing the second line of defence monitoring function to support the broad Risk Management team objectives. This is a newly established role that will further professionalise monitoring activity across a diverse range of Risk Management areas, helping to provide risk insight, monitoring and testing programmes, and support continuous improvement initiatives.

This is a global role and will report into the Global Ethics and Corporate Compliance Director, but with a dotted line into other members of the Risk Management leadership team.

Main Responsibilities:

This role can be based in either London or Leeds.

• Work with the Global Ethics and Corporate Compliance Director and other remembers of the Risk Management leadership team to shape the vision and direction of the RM monitoring programme globally;

• Supporting the Risk Management team in their use of data to provide meaningful and actionable insight across different Risk Management areas, including the use of data analytics tools and ability to use technology to efficiently drive risk identification and management processes;

• Development and delivery of a Risk Management Monitoring Plan and methodology, helping to drive consistency and efficiency in testing activity;

• Engaging with subject matter areas within the Risk Management team, including ethics and corporate compliance, privacy and data protection, operational risk and contract risk teams, to ensure the monitoring plan addresses key risk areas;

• Supporting continuous improvement activities, including making recommendations to support control deficiencies/continuous improvement, tracking and reporting on remediation activity;

• Support the development and refinement of Risk Management metrics for meaningful reporting processes;

• Working with system owners and digital teams to improve quality of and accessibility to data that can support the management of risk;

• Regularly review monitoring frameworks to ensure they meet regulatory and/or best practice standards;

• Prepare monitoring reports and summaries to support a range of different stakeholder requirements, including various Turner & Townsend Boards and Committees;

• Support compliance audits/performs compliance reviews;

• Support activities to manage SOX business requirements for the E&C programme;

• Support due diligence and integration activities arising from M&A activity as required; and

• Performs other ad hoc duties as assigned.

The RM Programme Monitoring Lead will report to the Global Ethics and Corporate Compliance Director, who is based in Leeds. They will primarily interface with:

• Other members of the Risk Management team, including Operational Risk, Privacy and Data Protection, and Contract Risk;

• The Regional operational business, including the Regional Managing Directors, Regional Boards, Regional Risk Management representatives;

• The Business Services teams, such as Finance, HR and IT;

• other related risk roles outside of the Risk Management function, such as the SOX monitoring teams; and

• Executive leadership, including the CEO, COO and CFO.

You will also be expected to liaise with Turner & Townsend’s business advisors (e.g. lawyers, insurance brokers, etc) and the CBRE Risk, Ethics and Compliance team (CBRE are 70% owners of Turner & Townsend), as necessary.

Qualifications

• Ideally to be professionally qualified with a finance or legal background role e.g. a qualified accountant, auditor or lawyer,;

• Demonstrable experience of delivering in a Risk/Compliance monitoring, auditing or continuous improvement role incorporating subject areas managed by the Turner & Townsend Risk Management team

• Experience of auditing core compliance areas of financial crime compliance, including Anti-Bribery and Corruption Compliance;

• Strong analytical skills and capabilities, including excel and ability to support data analytics initiatives;

• Strong leadership skills and ability to work independently;

• High attention to detail, balanced with an ability to be pragmatic and understand relative risk;

• Experience of working within a global business and be able to work flexibly across other time zones when necessary;

• Efficiently and effectively communicate complex risk topics to non-experts;

• Track-record of success in managing multiple stakeholders and successfully delivering compliance initiatives in a complex global business;

• Ability to manage self and others;

• Excellent communication skills (both written and oral), including sensitivity to cultural differences across a global business; and

• Self-motivated, pro-active and resilient.

Additional Information

Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change.

We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

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Please find out more about us at www.turnerandtownsend.com/

SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

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