The role’s primary purpose is to support the activities of the Risk & Controls team within the Group Risk Department, in particular the position will have a central role in managing the processes to assess compliance with Group Minimum Control standards

You will:

• Coordinating and supporting the performance of effective risk management in the business, by:
   - Working with the risk manager and business management to facilitate the quarterly ERM risk assessment process

   - To support the activities of the UK&I Risk council, helping business units and function to manage risk in their respective areas of the business
   

• Educating, training and supporting staff to build risk & controls awareness within the organisation
• Managing activities associated with the Minimum Controls self-assessment process, including:
   - Maintain the online workflow platform (SureCloud) used for control assessments, by keeping risk & control libraries up to date and reviewed and managing user access;

   - Coordinate the rolling self-assessment of Minimum Control standards across all control standards and business units, including set up of assessments in the system;

   - Provide training to key stakeholders on the Minimum Control Standards, the assessment process, and the online SureCloud system;

   - Review and selectively validate the results of the self-assessment response through testing and evidence review in accordance with Group guidance;

  - Produce reporting and analytics on Minimum Control compliance and action plan status;
   

• Follow-up on, and track progress with, risk and control improvement action plans;
• Prepare Quarterly Updates for the Risk Committee and Audit Committee;
• Work with Internal Audit to standardise control assessments and improve internal control

You will need:

• experience in delivering risk and controls management in a large and complex organisation
• Familiarity with a GRC controls assessment tool would be desirable, but not essential
• An intermediate to expert knowledge of Excel and data reporting
• An ability to undertake controls testing
• The ability to be pragmatic whilst working in a large complex organisation with a fast pace of change
• Analytical, with good attention to detail
• Good operational knowledge of risk and best-practice financial control
• Educated to Degree Level
• Internal Audit/ Accounting /Risk Management qualifications desirable, but not essential (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, IRM etc.)

Dixons Carphone is Europe’s number one electrical and telecommunications retailer and services company, with more than 40,000 colleagues across nine countries, including the UK and Ireland. Every day, we use our people’s expertise to reach out and help new customers. What’s more - we’re exploring extraordinary new markets, from wellness to security, so that in an ever more connected and constantly changing world, we can offer our customers the most comprehensive service.

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