Integrated Assurance Lead (Sizewell C)

EDF; Sizewell; Hybrid; GBP 82,000 - 86,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Up to 5% annual bonus

28 days’ annual leave (30 after 5 yrs)

Extra holiday purchase

Defined Contribution Pension Scheme (7

Job summary

EDF Sizewell C is seeking an Integrated Assurance Lead to oversee and improve integrated assurance across the project, coordinating assurance activities and creating an enterprise-wide view of risks and controls. The role focuses on connecting assurance planning with strategic objectives, and delivering clear insights to senior leadership.

You’ll join a large, regulated infrastructure programme, working with teams across Finance, Commercial, PMO, Quality, Internal Audit, Safety, Security and

Qualifications

• Strong experience across assurance, risk, controls, audit, governance or quality in a large, complex or regulated organisation.

Responsibilities

• Operate and continuously improve the integrated assurance framework, procedures and ways of working.
• Manage and maintain the Integrated Assurance and Audit Plan.
• Coordinate assurance activity and inputs across the Three Lines Model.
• Connect assurance planning with strategic objectives, risks, controls and milestones.
• Identify assurance gaps, duplication and emerging themes.
• Develop dashboards, reporting and thematic analysis for senior management and governance forums.
• Track actions and challenge delays or incomplete information when needed.
• Build relationships with assurance providers and delivery teams across Sizewell C.

Skills

Assurance and governance

Education

Institute of Risk Management

Institute of Internal Auditors

Association for Project Management

ICAEW/ACCA/CIMA

Job description

Integrated Assurance Lead
Sizewell C

Location: London or Manchester (2 days per week in the office) plus monthly travel for team days

Contract type: Permanent, full time

Salary: £82,186 - £86,000 depending on experience + bonus + benefits including:

• Up to 5% annual bonus.
• 28 days’ annual leave, increasing to 30 days after five years of service, plus bank holidays.
• Opportunity to purchase extra holiday.
• Defined Contribution Pension Scheme with up to 7.5% employee contribution and 15% employer contribution.
• Access to benefits portal offering a range of health, financial wellbeing and lifestyle options.

Be part of something bigger

At Sizewell C, we’re building one of Britain’s most important infrastructure projects, a new nuclear power station on the Suffolk coast that will play an important role in the UK’s energy future.

With a project of this scale and complexity comes the need for brilliant assurance. We need confidence that the right things are being looked at, the right risks are understood, and assurance activity across the organisation is connected, coordinated and giving our leaders the insight they need.

That’s where you come in.

We’re looking for an experienced Integrated Assurance Lead to help operate and continuously improve integrated assurance across Sizewell C, bringing together assurance activity across the Three Lines Model and helping create a clear enterprise wide view of assurance coverage, risks, gaps and emerging themes.

Why join Sizewell C?

This is your chance to play a key role on a nationally significant, highly complex and regulated infrastructure programme. You’ll join Sizewell C at an incredibly exciting stage of its development, working across a diverse organisation and helping strengthen how we connect risk, controls and assurance to support better decision making. You’ll be working with teams across Finance, Commercial, PMO, Quality, Internal Audit, Independent Nuclear Assurance, Safety, Security & Assurance and other areas across the business.

Why join us as our Integrated Assurance Lead?

This isn’t a role where you’ll sit on the sidelines reviewing assurance activity. You’ll be at the centre of it, connecting assurance providers and business teams, challenging where something doesn’t quite add up, spotting gaps and duplication, and turning complex assurance information into clear insight. Stakeholder management is a huge part of this role. You’ll need to be comfortable going back and forth with stakeholders to get the right information, build strong relationships and provide constructive challenge. Crucially, you’ll know how to read the room and adapt your approach, whether you’re working with operational colleagues, functional leaders or senior executives. You’ll also take day to day ownership of the Integrated Assurance and Audit Plan, bringing together inputs from multiple assurance providers and ensuring activity, ownership, timing, outputs and dependencies remain visible and current.

What you’ll be doing

As a Integrated Assurance Lead you’ll:

• Operate and continuously improve the Integrated Assurance framework, procedures, guidance and ways of working
• Manage and maintain the Integrated Assurance and Audit Plan
• Coordinate assurance activity and inputs across the Three Lines Model
• Connect assurance planning with strategic objectives, significant risks, controls, obligations and critical project milestones
• Identify assurance gaps, unnecessary duplication, common findings and emerging themes
• Develop clear dashboards, reporting and thematic analysis for senior management and governance forums
• Track assurance activity and actions, constructively challenging delays or incomplete information where needed
• Build strong relationships with assurance providers, functional leaders and delivery teams across Sizewell C
• Support governance arrangements through clear papers, decisions, actions and follow up
• Assess the quality and relevance of assurance information and highlight limitations clearly
• Support the effective use and continued development of assurance systems and digital tools, including OaSIS Phase II
• Help strengthen understanding of integrated assurance and the Three Lines Model across the organisation.

What we’re looking for

The hiring team is looking for someone who really understands assurance, rather than someone with only adjacent risk or audit exposure.

Ideally, you’ll bring around 5 to 7 years’ relevant experience, alongside:

• Strong experience across assurance, risk, controls, audit, governance, compliance or quality in a large, complex or regulated organisation
• A strong working understanding of integrated assurance and the IIA Three Lines Model
• Experience operating an assurance framework or enterprise-wide assurance planning process
• Experience managing assurance plans or portfolios and coordinating multiple assurance providers
• A strong understanding of risk-based assurance and how organisational objectives, risks, controls and assurance activity connect
• Excellent stakeholder management, influencing and relationship building skills
• Confidence providing constructive challenge and working with stakeholders at all levels, including senior and executive audiences
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to identify gaps, duplication, emerging themes and areas of limited assurance
• Experience producing meaningful assurance reporting, dashboards and governance materials
• The ability to work autonomously, manage competing priorities and exercise sound judgement.

A relevant degree is welcomed, but strong, directly relevant professional experience is equally important. Relevant professional qualifications or memberships are also desirable, including those from the Institute of Risk Management, Institute of Internal Auditors, Association for Project Management, ICAEW, ACCA or CIMA.

Experience within nuclear, energy, utilities, construction, major infrastructure or another complex, highly regulated environment would be particularly valuable.

Ready to bring assurance together?

For this role you must have evidence of right to work in the UK. As a project, we do not discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability or sexual orientation, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.

Why Join Us?

For more than 60 years, nuclear power stations in the UK have been quietly keeping Britain fuelled with massive amounts of home‑grown energy.

Our teams up and down the country are proudly continuing to serve the nation – but they also have an eye on the future.

EDF is leading the UK's nuclear renaissance with the construction of a new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point C and plans for a new power station at Sizewell C in Suffolk.

Nuclear power is the most reliable, low‑carbon energy source currently available to the UK. EDF is playing a key role in the development of nuclear sites, while Hinkley Point C will provide low-carbon electricity to meet 7% of the UK demand. The project is already making a positive impact on the local and national economy as well as boosting skills and education.

We’re not just building new nuclear power stations. We’re developing careers, upskilling generations and creating thousands of employment and apprenticeship opportunities across a variety of skills areas.

It takes a special kind of person to work in the nuclear energy industry and although we have thousands of them there’s always a need for more.

Our industry has a mind‑boggling range of opportunities and more jobs, and in more places, than you might think. But it’s also an industry which is changing.

We’re a responsible business and proud to be Britain’s biggest generator of zero carbon electricity. With size, age and experience, we believe we can do even more.