Risk Assurance Analyst

Guide Dogs - Where Every Role Makes a Difference

Come and join us as a self‑motivated and purpose‑driven Risk Assurance Analyst and be part of something life‑changing - helping people with sight loss live the life they choose.

As a Risk Assurance Analyst at Guide Dogs, you’ll strengthen our control environment by ensuring risks are effectively managed and that our processes are safe, compliant and operating efficiently. You’ll play a key role in delivering assurance across the organisation by assessing controls and enhancing procedures. The Risk Assurance Analyst will be an expert in risk management, control assessment and process improvement. Our Risk Assurance Analysts play a huge part in ensuring everything we do enables us to deliver on our purpose and exceed expectations.

This is a full-time role working 35 hours per week on a six-month contract assignment. The position is fully remote, offering flexibility while working as part of a collaborative and supportive team.

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct comprehensive assessments of existing controls across the organisation to verify their design adequacy and operational effectiveness.
• Perform control testing using appropriate methodologies including inquiry, observation, inspection, and evaluation. 
• Document effectiveness of controls collaborating with stakeholders to identify and support effective mitigation strategies. 
• Monitor the implementation of control improvements and validate their effectiveness.
• Review and analyse existing procedures and processes to identify control gaps and improvement opportunities and engage with process owners regarding recommendations.
• Liaise with process owners to rewrite and update procedures and processes to ensure appropriate controls are embedded into standard practices. 
• Maintain a comprehensive record of assurance testing, updating the risk register with the control effectiveness rating. 
• Participate in risk assessment activities and contribute to the identification of emerging risks and the maintenance of the risk register and controls.
• Contribute to content creation in liaison with the Learning team for internal training to improve staff understanding of effective control.

You

You’ll have a proactive and analytical approach to risk management and control assurance. You’ll enjoy working in a fast-paced, stakeholder-focused environment with a dedicated focus on strengthening controls and delivering high-quality assurance outcomes, whilst being committed to maintaining strong governance, compliance and continuous improvement. You’ll act with integrity and honesty in everything you do.

Skills and Competencies

• Educated to A level standard (QCF Level 3 / SQCF Levels 6-7)
• Achievement of 5 GCSE passes or equivalent with at least a grade C or 5 in Maths & English (QCF level 2 / SQCF level 5).
• Demonstrable experience in risk management, internal audit, compliance or related field; preferably within a matrix organisation
• Demonstrable experience with control testing methodologies and documentation standards.
• Demonstrable experience with delivery of controls assurance and consistent reporting of findings.
• Demonstrable ability to successfully engage and consult with diverse stakeholder groups to ensure embedding of changes. 
• Demonstration of high integrity and professionalism. 
• Proven experience of effective remote working remotely with strong self-management delivering objectives and communication skills.

Benefits

We wouldn’t be able to change the lives of people with sight loss without our people. That’s why it’s important for us to provide a variety of benefits that reward our colleagues in a way that suits them and recognises the hard work and contribution that they make.

• 26 days annual leave. After three years of continuous employment, this increases to 28 days plus bank holidays.
• Real Living Wage Employer
• Flex pot - equal to a proportion of your annual salary to use on our wide variety of flexible benefits
• The option to buy and sell annual leave
• Discounts and cash-back scheme
• Excellent pension scheme (We will match your pension contributions plus 2% up to a maximum of 9% employer contribution)
• And lots more!

For high volumes of applications, we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than advertised.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Behind Every Guide Dog Is Someone Like You - We’re passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that celebrates and values diversity. Bring your whole self to work regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. We don’t want you to ‘fit’ our culture, we want you to enrich it. 

How to apply

Further details on the full role are attached below. When you are ready to apply, submit an online application form via this page.  Please note - If you are successful you will need to provide evidence of your right to work in the UK via our digital ID checking supplier.  We cannot offer visa sponsorship at this time.

As part of your application ensure you provide evidence and examples of how your skills & experience meet the criteria as set out in the attached job description. You will also be asked to complete a few job-specific questions, so please be prepared to write your answers to these questions.

If you choose to use AI tools to assist in completing your application, please use them appropriately.  We value authenticity. If you want to stand out, using a generic AI-generated response isn’t going to separate you from the crowd. This is your time to shine and showcase your unique skills, personality, and thought processes!  You can find our full statement on the use of AI to complete applications on our careers website.

If you would like to have an informal conversation about the role before applying, or require any accessibility support to apply, our friendly recruitment team is ready and waiting to help. Call them on 0118 3540345 or drop an email to [email protected].

Safer recruitment

Guide Dogs follow Safer Recruitment practices to ensure we are safeguarding the vulnerable people we work with. As part of this, we require a full work history with any gaps accounted for & a minimum of 2 professional referee details fully covering the past 5 years. If you are applying for a disclosure role, please note that you will be required to undergo an enhanced DBS check and sign up to the DBS update service.

At Guide Dogs, we believe in fair and equitable hiring practices. A criminal record will not automatically disqualify an applicant from consideration for a position. Each case will be evaluated individually. We encourage all candidates to disclose relevant information, and we assure you that it will be handled confidentially and fairly.