VodafoneThree - Assurance Governance and Enablement Manager

This role sits at the centre of the Assurance Enablement function, ensuring governance, tracking, and execution across all assurance activity. You will oversee control execution, coordinate recovery and remediation plans, and provide clear visibility of progress against strategy. Combining strong organisation with stakeholder influence, you will bring structure, discipline, and transparency to assurance delivery, helping ensure controls are effective and outcomes are consistently achieved.

• Support the day-to-day operation of the assurance model, ensuring consistent execution across all areas
• Track assurance control execution, ensuring activities are completed on time and to required standards
• Monitor control coverage and identify gaps, risks, or inconsistencies in execution
• Coordinate recovery and remediation plans, ensuring clear ownership and timely delivery
• Maintain oversight of risks, issues, dependencies, and key delivery milestones
• Act as a central coordination point across Assurance Pods, Transformation, and key stakeholders
• Produce high-quality governance packs, dashboards, and leadership reporting
• Provide regular updates on assurance performance, risks, and progress against strategy
• Ensure transparency and visibility of assurance activity across Finance Operations
• Support alignment of priorities across teams, ensuring focus on key risk areas
• Challenge and elevate where assurance execution is off track or below expected standards
• Drive consistency in reporting, governance, and execution frameworks
• Support continuous improvement of assurance processes, controls, and ways of working
• Facilitate cross-team communication and ensure a strong feedback loop into assurance delivery
• Act as deputy to the Assurance Enablement Manager, ensuring continuity of leadership when required

• You bring strong experience in assurance, risk, controls, or finance operations, with a good understanding of governance frameworks
• You are highly organised and detail-oriented, with the ability to manage and track multiple complex activities simultaneously
• You're confident working cross-functionally, aligning teams and stakeholders without direct authority
• You communicate clearly and confidently, producing structured reporting and engaging senior stakeholders
• You have the ability to see both the detail and the bigger picture, maintaining end-to-end oversight
• You're comfortable challenging and holding teams to account to ensure high standards are met
• You thrive in fast-paced environments, bringing structure and clarity to ambiguity
• You're proactive and solutions-focused, always looking for ways to improve processes and outcomes
• You demonstrate strong ownership and accountability, with a focus on delivery and results
• You're motivated to develop into a broader assurance leadership role over time

We're here to build a network the UK can count on - one that connects people, places and potential. Because no matter where you live, what your background is, or how you get online - we think everyone deserves the same chance to stay connected, and with Vodafone Three, that future's being built - today.

We're creating more than the UK's best network. We're helping close the digital divide, empower communities and drive meaningful progress.

We believe that everyone should feel they belong. Whoever you are and whatever your story, there's space for you here. We're building a workplace where different perspectives are welcomed, voices are heard, and everyone feels safe to show up as themselves.

You'll join a team that genuinely cares - about each other, about our customers, and about the future we're building. From day one, you'll be welcomed, valued and encouraged to bring your whole self to work.

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