Enterprise Assurance Lead - Policy & Controls

Sky UK Limited; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension package with up to 9% employer

Private healthcare

Sky TV and NOW package

Job summary

Sky UK Limited is establishing a new Enterprise Assurance capability within the Group Risk Office to provide a consistent, risk-based approach to governance across the organisation. The role partners with senior leaders to shape the assurance function and deliver independent insights into policy adherence and control effectiveness.

You will help evolve the enterprise-wide assurance framework, translating findings into actionable recommendations and building visibility of control health across

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Job description

Sky UK Limited is establishing a new Enterprise Assurance capability within the Group Risk Office to provide a consistent, risk-based approach to governance across the organisation. The role partners with senior leaders to shape the assurance function and deliver independent insights into policy adherence and control effectiveness.

You will help evolve the enterprise-wide assurance framework, translating findings into actionable recommendations and building visibility of control health across