VodafoneThree - Assurance Governance and Enablement Manager

Vodafone Limited; England; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Great pay

Bonuses

Pension plan

Learning tools

Parental leave policies

Discounts

Vouchers

Paid time for charity work

Job summary

Vodafone Limited is seeking an Assurance Enablement professional to govern, track and execute across all assurance activity. You will oversee control execution, coordinate remediation plans, and provide visibility of progress against strategy.

This role requires strong organisation, stakeholder influence and the ability to deliver structured governance packs, dashboards and leadership reporting across Finance Operations.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in assurance, risk, controls, or finance operations with a good understanding of governance frameworks.
• Highly organised and detail-oriented, able to manage multiple complex activities simultaneously.
• Confident working cross-functionally, aligning teams and stakeholders without direct authority.
• Clear and confident communicator, producing structured reporting for senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Support the day-to-day operation of the assurance model, ensuring consistent execution across all areas
• Track assurance control execution, ensuring activities are completed on time and to required standards
• Monitor control coverage and identify gaps, risks, or inconsistencies in execution
• Coordinate recovery and remediation plans, ensuring clear ownership and timely delivery
• Maintain oversight of risks, issues, dependencies, and key delivery milestones
• Act as a central coordination point across Assurance Pods, Transformation, and key stakeholders
• Produce high-quality governance packs, dashboards, and leadership reporting
• Provide regular updates on assurance performance, risks, and progress against strategy
• Ensure transparency and visibility of assurance activity across Finance Operations
• Support alignment of priorities across teams, ensuring focus on key risk areas
• Challenge and elevate where assurance execution is off track or below expected standards
• Drive consistency in reporting, governance, and execution frameworks
• Support continuous improvement of assurance processes, controls, and ways of working
• Facilitate cross-team communication and ensure a strong feedback loop into assurance delivery
• Act as deputy to the Assurance Enablement Manager, ensuring continuity of leadership when required

Skills

Assurance

Risk management

Controls

Finance operations

Governance

Job description

This role sits at the centre of the Assurance Enablement function, ensuring governance, tracking, and execution across all assurance activity. You will oversee control execution, coordinate recovery and remediation plans, and provide clear visibility of progress against strategy. Combining strong organisation with stakeholder influence, you will bring structure, discipline, and transparency to assurance delivery, helping ensure controls are effective and outcomes are consistently achieved.

Responsibilities

• Support the day-to-day operation of the assurance model, ensuring consistent execution across all areas
• Track assurance control execution, ensuring activities are completed on time and to required standards
• Monitor control coverage and identify gaps, risks, or inconsistencies in execution
• Coordinate recovery and remediation plans, ensuring clear ownership and timely delivery
• Maintain oversight of risks, issues, dependencies, and key delivery milestones
• Act as a central coordination point across Assurance Pods, Transformation, and key stakeholders
• Produce high-quality governance packs, dashboards, and leadership reporting
• Provide regular updates on assurance performance, risks, and progress against strategy
• Ensure transparency and visibility of assurance activity across Finance Operations
• Support alignment of priorities across teams, ensuring focus on key risk areas
• Challenge and elevate where assurance execution is off track or below expected standards
• Drive consistency in reporting, governance, and execution frameworks
• Support continuous improvement of assurance processes, controls, and ways of working
• Facilitate cross-team communication and ensure a strong feedback loop into assurance delivery
• Act as deputy to the Assurance Enablement Manager, ensuring continuity of leadership when required

Qualifications

• You bring strong experience in assurance, risk, controls, or finance operations, with a good understanding of governance frameworks
• You are highly organised and detail-oriented, with the ability to manage and track multiple complex activities simultaneously
• You're confident working cross-functionally, aligning teams and stakeholders without direct authority
• You communicate clearly and confidently, producing structured reporting and engaging senior stakeholders
• You have the ability to see both the detail and the bigger picture, maintaining end-to-end oversight
• You're comfortable challenging and holding teams to account to ensure high standards are met
• You thrive in fast-paced environments, bringing structure and clarity to ambiguity
• You're proactive and solutions-focused, always looking for ways to improve processes and outcomes
• You demonstrate strong ownership and accountability, with a focus on delivery and results
• You're motivated to develop into a broader assurance leadership role over time

About Us & Culture

We're here to build a network the UK can count on - one that connects people, places and potential. Because no matter where you live, what your background is, or how you get online - we think everyone deserves the same chance to stay connected, and with VodafoneThree, that future's being built - today.

We're creating more than the UK's best network. We're helping close the digital divide, empower communities and drive meaningful progress.

We believe that everyone should feel they belong. Whoever you are and whatever your story, there's space for you here. We're building a workplace where different perspectives are welcomed, voices are heard, and everyone feels safe to show up as themselves.

You'll join a team that genuinely cares - about each other, about our customers, and about the future we're building. From day one, you'll be welcomed, valued and encouraged to bring your whole self to work.

Why VodafoneThree

Join us and you'll be at the heart of change. That means building responsibly, investing sustainably and creating opportunities that last.

We're not just expanding connectivity; we're reimagining what a connected nation looks like. With 11bn invested in 5G and digital infrastructure, your work will directly power businesses, services, and communities across the country.

You’ll work on real challenges, with real impact, across every corner of the country. Wherever you join us, whatever your role, you’ll be helping to build a future that works better for everyone.

We move at pace, because what we're building matters - and we're learning as we go. We're proud of the progress we've made, but we're just getting started.

Join us at the heart of our business in Corporate, one of the central support functions that underpin our business and keep us moving forward. We provide centralised support, expertise and guidance across our UK and Group operations, continuing to build on our success and trailblazing the way to our next stage of digital growth.

Salary & Working Hours

Salary: Excellent basic salary plus bonus and Vodafone benefits

Working hours: Full time 37.5 hours per week - Monday to Friday

Hybrid

Hybrid Working Approach

We believe that through collaboration and connection with our colleagues we can achieve great things. Our hybrid working approach allows our people to work both in the office and at home, providing the flexibility and resources you need to succeed in your role. We don't require you to be in on specific days; instead, we ask people to come into the office 2-3 days each week, for at least 8 days per month. You should work with your line manager to understand what their expectations are for you, your specific role and your team.

Inclusion & Disability Confidence

We know that everyone is unique, with multiple aspects to their identity and different experiences behind them. We are passionate about Inclusion for All and creating a workplace where everyone can thrive, whatever their personal or professional background.

We believe that everyone has valuable contributions to make. As a Disability Confident Employer, we actively encourage individuals with disabilities to apply for positions within our team. Through the 'Offer an Interview' scheme, we aim to offer interviews to a fair and proportionate number of applicants with disabilities who best meet the essential criteria for our vacancies. If you would like to participate in the scheme, you will have the opportunity to indicate this on your application.

If you require any reasonable adjustments or have an accessibility request as part of your recruitment journey, for example, extended time or breaks in between online assessments, a sign language interpreter, or assistive technology, please refer to the Accessibility section of our Careers website () for guidance.

Benefits

• Great pay
• Bonuses
• Up to 28 days off plus bank holidays
• Paid time for charity work
• Discounts
• Vouchers
• Pension plan
• Learning tools
• Parental leave policies

Compliance & Background Checks

We are regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and all offers of employment for this role are subject to background checks, including criminal (DBS) and financial checks to meet the regulators standards.

AI & Interview Process

We use AI in different parts of our business to boost innovation, improve efficiency, and create new opportunities. We know many candidates use AI to fine-tune their CVs or prepare for interviews, but what we really care about is your unique experiences and achievements.

During the interview, we want you to rely on your own knowledge and skills to show us who you really are - your personality, creativity, and abilities. Above all, we're looking for authenticity and can't wait to get to know the real you.

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