Enterprise Risk & Audit Manager – Hybrid/Remote

Training Qualifications UK; Polska; Hybrid; PLN 158,000 - 263,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Birthday day off

Loyalty Bonus

Annual salary review

Group Income Protection

Life Assurance

Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)

Work-life balance

Job summary

VQA is seeking an Audit and Risk Manager to provide coordinated oversight of internal audit and enterprise risk management. You will support the Head of Audit, Risk and Compliance by offering insight and assurance on governance and controls, across ARC Pillar.

You will work with managers and third-party providers to maintain frameworks, monitor delivery and drive improvements, leveraging collaboration and governance rather than direct line management.

Qualifications

• Experience in internal audit, risk management, governance or assurance.
• Ability to coordinate risk-based audit activity and support effective organisational risk assessment, reporting and escalation.
• Strong analytical, report-writing and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Experience in a regulated, education, public-sector or similarly complex environment is desirable.
• Professional qualification or membership is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Oversee and continually improve the internal audit framework, methodology, standards and documentation.
• Maintain and develop the organisational risk management framework, including risk appetite, policies, assessment criteria and supporting guidance.
• Oversee the quality, completeness and currency of organisational risk registers, ensuring risks have clear owners, appropriate controls, mitigations and escalation routes.
• Coordinate the development and delivery of the risk-based audit plan, agreed with the Head of ARC and informed by priorities, regulatory exposure and emerging risks.
• Support the commission, scope and coordinate internal and third-party audit work; monitor quality, timeliness, consistency and value of audit outputs.
• Review audit findings and reports to ensure conclusions are evidence-led and supported by recommendations.
• Maintain oversight of audit action plans, validate progress and escalated overdue remediation.
• Protect the independence of audit activity and separation between advisory, ownership and assurance.
• Identify, assess, monitor and elevate strategic, operational, regulatory and change-related risks.
• Analyze risk themes and provide timely insight to Leadership Team.

Skills

Internal audit experience

Risk management

Governance

Stakeholder engagement

Analytical thinking

Reporting/writing

Education

Professional qualification or membership desirable

Job description

VQA is seeking an Audit and Risk Manager to provide coordinated oversight of internal audit and enterprise risk management. You will support the Head of Audit, Risk and Compliance by offering insight and assurance on governance and controls, across ARC Pillar.

You will work with managers and third-party providers to maintain frameworks, monitor delivery and drive improvements, leveraging collaboration and governance rather than direct line management.