Job Description

You will be driving the organization’s maturity journey, assisting in the creation and embedding of controls, and carrying out assurance activity for systems and offices around the World.
This is a key role in providing senior decision-makers with the information and expert perspective they can use to use the organization’s resources to achieve the organization’s mission and objectives while protecting its operations, finances, and people. Through this activity you will be part of helping companies, cities, states, and regions meet their Net Zero targets.

Key responsibilities include:

• Provision of assurance on the organization’s risks, controls, and governance.
• Undertaking compliance checks and internal audits, raising recommendations and tracking subsequent actions.
• Supporting oversight of formal risk management procedures, drives risk-based behaviors throughout the organization, and undertakes risk workshops and PESTLE exercises.
• Providing guidance to the organization on matters of risk, internal audit, compliance, and governance.
• Assisting with the management of incidents and near-misses, and business continuity planning.

This is a full time/part-time role based at CDP’s London office reporting to the Head of Risk & Assurance.
Benefits:

30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, generous non-contributory pension provision, annual discretionary bonus (depending on company performance), Employee Assistance Programme, life assurance, training and development, flexible working opportunities and other benefits.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• A minimum of three years’ experience in internal audit
• Clear, concise, and effective communication with confidence to develop trust, influence, and engagement from key internal and external stakeholders.
• Self-starter, able to work with minimal supervision and autonomously to conflicting deadlines, in a flexible way switching priorities as the situation requires.
• Provable experience of developing solutions and new controls at a company-wide level.
• Comfortable providing informed advice to senior leaders.
• Experience of reviewing processes or other controls, preferably in an audit or compliance background.
• Experience in complex organizations, preferably the 3rd sector, and interaction with internal and external stakeholders at all levels.
• Experience of raising an organization’s maturity of risk management and risk-based decision-making.
• Some knowledge of charity and company law, particularly in the United Kingdom.
• Demonstrable experience of working in an international organization.
• Knowledge of the financial system and capital markets.
• An passion for environmental issues, particularly as they relate to our core themes of climate change, deforestation and water security.