Senior Assurance Manager

This vacancy is open to permanent and fixed-term BAE Systems employees only. While agency workers have access to relevant permanent opportunities, this role has been designated as an internal opportunity and therefore only permanent and fixed-term employees of BAE Systems are eligible to apply.

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This position will lead an efficient and effective service associated to the provision, data analysis and/or reporting of assurance within the Legal Export Control Assurance Centre of Excellence in Group Legal.

The role involves leading a package of activity to assess and report on the effectiveness of the export control and sanctions control environment. This will involve managing and co-ordinating a team of direct reports to deliver required outcomes, or working closely with senior Export Control business stakeholders, to improve export control and sanctions controls and governance.

You will provide insight, guidance and report on risk and the effectiveness of mitigating controls across the Export Control function. You will contribute towards the provision of assurance for the Group Audit Review Board and Audit Committee.

The role will include direct line management responsibility for a team of 4 heads, performing 2nd line assurance, continually improving 1st line assurance, and/or analysing and drawing strategic conclusions from 1st & 2nd line assurance activity on behalf for the UK Export Control function.

This role will provide you with the opportunity to develop your career within BAE Systems due to exposure gained across multiple business areas.

Your main responsibilities as Senior Assurance Manager will involve

·Oversight and management of an assurance team, toolset and process used to assess, analyse, draw conclusions from and/or report on the effectiveness of the export control and sanctions control environment.

·Produce value-add data, information and reports highlighting the performance of export control and sanctions controls across the Group (excl. BAE Systems Inc.) to make risk-based recommendations and assure & demonstrate standards of control which satisfy UK Corporate Reform requirements.

·Through the assurance work performed identify issues, themes and trends to be used by senior Export Control stakeholders as the basis for response and action.

·Progress the data analytics agenda promoting the use of analytics software and data visualisation toolsets to provide valuable insights into control performance.

·Drive efficiency and effectiveness in assurance processes and toolsets by seeking to continuously improve the execution of deliverables.

·Leading and managing - including hiring, developing, motivating, and managing performance – maintaining a diverse and inclusive culture and ensuring team members have the appropriate capability and skills to discharge their responsibilities to deliver an efficient and effective service.

·Developing and maintaining effective policies, processes and systems as a subject matter expert in support of the delivery of team objectives.

Your skills and qualifications

• ·Leadership and people management, including working with stakeholders at all levels within a large corporate environment and developing people.
• ·Considerable knowledge of export control & sanctions regulations and a good level of proficiency in assurance is essential.
• ·Comprehensive understanding of governance, risk and control in an export control and sanctions context is highly desirable.
• ·A comprehensive understanding of the Operational Framework requirements, particularly the export control and sanctions, management review and governance mechanisms.
• ·A high level of knowledge of Export Control processes, business units and the Export Control function is essential to ensure the assurance landscape is fully understood and complete. This includes historic and forward-facing changes.
• ·An enterprise mind-set will support this role to ensure appropriate consideration across businesses and functions and mindful to deliver operational efficiency alongside compliance.
• ·Awareness of the latest industry trends and toolsets to drive continuous improvement and influence automation of controls is essential in support of compliance with UK corporate governance requirements.
• Location: Flexible, UK + domestic & potentially international travel.
• Grade: GG13

Head Office

If you’d like to make a real difference where it counts, BAE Systems is the place for you.

From keeping soldiers, sailors and pilots safe to helping countries prosper, from developing the next generation of supersonic aircraft to investing in the next generation of super-smart talent – at BAE Systems, we work together to give our customers an essential edge in protecting the things that really matter. Lives, livelihoods, ways of life.

As part of the Head Office team, you’ll be at the heart of this endeavour – working closely with our air, maritime, land and cyber and intelligence businesses to support our customers around the world.

We are committed to supporting work life balance for all our employees and embrace a range of modern working practices, which aim to enhance flexibility for individuals whilst also enabling business performance. Flexibility provisions vary by role, but include; hybrid working arrangements, flexible working patterns and shift working.

There are endless opportunities to grow at BAE Systems, and we will build upon the diversity of your experience through supporting your movement across our organisation. Our mission is to support our colleagues reach their full potential and so you’ll always find something new that will continue to inspire and provide an exciting and varied career that continues to play a crucial role in creating a secure tomorrow for generations to come.

We believe when you bring together different people and different perspectives it inspires creativity and drives innovation. It helps us fulfil our purpose and it's integral to our culture. We want everyone to be heard and respected, allowing us all to develop in an inclusive workplace and thrive together. We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

We welcome applications from all suitably qualified people, who are BAE Systems employees and have been in their current role for 12 months or longer.

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