Corporate Assurance Manager

Sky; Hounslow; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free Sky TV or NOW package

Pension package with up to 9% employer

Private healthcare with mental health

Aviva Digital GP and dental insurance

Discounts on Sky products

Sharesave and Tech schemes

Sky VIP rewards and experiences

Job summary

Sky is establishing a new Enterprise Assurance capability within the Group Risk Office to provide a risk-based view of policies, controls and governance. You’ll partner with senior leaders and policy owners to shape assurance across Sky and improve visibility of control health.

You will work with a Technical Assurance Manager to deliver a coordinated approach across corporate and technical domains, contributing insights and recommendations for improvement.

Qualifications

• Ability to assess the design and effectiveness of policies, controls and governance frameworks.
• Translate assurance findings into clear, practical insight for stakeholders at all levels.
• Strong understanding of corporate governance and accountability structures.
• Excellent stakeholder management and relationship-building abilities.
• Confident to influence, challenge and hold stakeholders to account.
• Strong problem-solving capability and driving sustainable improvements.
• Collaborate with SMEs to maximise enterprise-wide visibility of control health.

Responsibilities

• Lead assurance activity across Sky’s corporate policy and control environment, providing independent insight into policy adherence and control effectiveness.
• Assess whether key policies, controls and governance arrangements are understood, embedded and operating effectively.
• Partner with policy owners, control owners and subject matter experts to strengthen business ownership of controls.
• Shape and evolve Sky’s Enterprise Assurance framework, methodologies and standards for consistent delivery.
• Identify opportunities to improve assurance effectiveness through data, insights, reporting and automation.
• Translate findings into clear, practical recommendations and reporting for leaders.
• Contribute to enterprise-wide assurance reporting and a consolidated view of risk and improvement priorities.

Skills

Policy & controls

Governance frameworks

Stakeholder mgmt

Influence & challenge

Problem solving

Cross-functional collaboration

Enterprise assurance

Education

Assurance/compliance/audit background

Job description

Role/Team overview

Sky is establishing a new Enterprise Assurance capability within the Group Risk Office to provide a consistent, risk-based approach to understanding how effectively key policies, controls and governance requirements are operating across the organisation.

This is a unique opportunity to help shape a new enterprise-wide capability from the ground up, influencing how assurance is delivered across Sky and driving greater visibility of control effectiveness and organisational risk.

In this role, you’ll partner with senior leaders, policy owners and subject matter experts across Sky’s markets and functions, developing a broad view of organisational risks, controls and governance arrangements. You’ll be working alongside a Technical Assurance Manager to ensure we’re approaching enterprise-wide assurance in a robust, sustainable and consistent manner.

The Corporate Assurance Manager is responsible for driving enterprise-wide assurance across Sky’s corporate policy and control environment, assessing whether key governance requirements are understood, embedded and operating effectively. The role provides independent insight into policy adherence, control effectiveness and areas for improvement, helping strengthen accountability and business ownership of risk and controls.

What you’ll do

• Lead assurance activity across Sky’s corporate policy and control environment, providing independent insight into policy adherence, control effectiveness and areas for improvement.
• Assess whether key policies, controls and governance arrangements are understood, embedded and operating effectively.
• Partner with policy owners, control owners and subject matter experts to strengthen business ownership of controls and support sustainable improvement.
• Help shape and evolve Sky’s Enterprise Assurance framework, methodologies and standards, ensuring assurance activity is delivered consistently and objectively.
• Identify opportunities to improve assurance effectiveness through better use of data, insight, reporting and automation.
• Translate assurance findings into clear, practical recommendations and reporting for leaders and stakeholders.
• Contribute to enterprise-wide assurance reporting, helping build a consolidated view of control health, emerging risks and improvement priorities across Sky.
• Work closely with the Technical Assurance Manager to deliver a coordinated enterprise assurance approach across corporate and technical domains.

What you’ll bring

• Ability to assess the design and effectiveness of policies, controls and governance frameworks, identifying areas of weakness and opportunities for improvement.

• Expertise in translating assurance findings into clear, practical and actionable insight for stakeholders at all levels of the organisation.

• Have a strong understanding of corporate governance frameworks, corporate policy management, control environments and organisational accountability.

• Strong stakeholder management and relationship-building skills, establishing credibility and trust across diverse business functions.

• Confidence to influence, challenge and constructively hold stakeholders to account in support of improved control effectiveness and risk management.

• Strong problem-solving capability, identifying root causes, evaluating options and driving sustainable improvements.

• Strong capability to collaborate with subject matter experts across the organisation, building a joined-up view of policy adherence, control effectiveness and assurance activity, and ensuring existing expertise and insight are leveraged to maximise enterprise-wide visibility of control health.

• Comfortable operating within a newly established function, helping shape methodologies, processes and ways of working while maintaining a focus on delivery, continuous improvement and long‑term capability development.

• Have a background in assurance, compliance, audit or control-related disciplines.

• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with assurance, risk and control subject matter experts to build a broader understanding of organisational risks, controls and assurance outcomes.

Benefits and perks

There’s one thing people can’t stop talking about when it comes to life at Sky: the perks. Here’s a taster:

• Free Sky TV or NOW package, including Sky Sports and Sky Cinema
• Pension package with up to 9% employer contribution
• Private healthcare with mental health support
• Aviva Digital GP and dental insurance
• Discounts on Sky products, including Sky Mobile, Sky Broadband, Sky Glass and Sky Protect
• Sharesave and Tech schemes
• A range of Sky VIP rewards and experiences

How you’ll work

We’ve adopted a hybrid working approach to give more flexibility on where and how we work. The hybrid working expectations for this role are 3 Daysin the office per week.

Your office base

Our Sky Group HQ. Equipped with state-of-the-art technology and workspaces, there’s plenty of space to see your big ideas come to life. Here you’ll find 13 subsidised restaurants and cafes. You can re-energise at our gym, catch the latest films at our cinema, get your car washed and even get pampered at our beauty salon.

Our Osterley Campus is just a 10-minute walk from Syon Lane train station, or you can get one of our free shuttle buses from Osterley, Gunnersbury and Ealing Broadway stations.Plus, there’s free onsite parking available for cars, motorbikes and bicycles.

Who we are

We’re Sky, a leading media and entertainment company who connect millions with entertainment, sports, news and arts through innovative products and services. Working with us means you’ll be bringing the joy of a better experience to more people, every day. All so we can do better and deliver better for our customers, colleagues and society.

We’re an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We’re a Disability Confident Accredited Employer, and welcome and encourage applications from all candidates.We will look to ensure a fair and consistent experience for all and will make reasonable adjustments to support you where appropriate. Please flag any adjustments you need as early as you can.

Just so you know: if your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a criminal record check. And depending on the role you have applied for and the nature of any convictions you may have, we might have to withdraw the offer.

To be eligible for this role you are required to have the appropriate right to work in the UK. Please be aware Sky does not offer sponsorship for this position.

To find out more about working with us, search #LifeAtSky on social media.