Senior Compliance and Assurance Analyst

At Severn Trent, our people are at the heart of everything we do. We’re in the top 5% of utility companies worldwide for employee engagement, and we’re equally proud of our strong Glassdoor score – reflecting how much our people love working here.

Join us to make a positive impact on the environment and our communities, while being valued and supported in a truly inclusive workplace.

If you want to do more, because you care, we want you on our team.

Want to do the best work of your life? Playing your part in making a big difference to the environment and communities we serve. Our people make Severn Trent a truly exciting and inclusive place to work – a place where you can be yourself and let your skills shine.

Our purpose is taking care of life’s essentials, but we’re also big on making a difference, not just because we should but because we care.

It's due to this care that Severn Trent as a company have a massive focus on driving and maintaining high compliance and assurance standards across the whole Group. The key objective for our compliance team is to ensure that we continue to meet and exceed our regulatory reporting, licence and statutory obligations, along with implementing a matrix approach which will supports us in improving our effectiveness and efficiency in this area.

With these high standards in mind, we are looking for a Senior Compliance and Assurance Analyst to join us to continue the good work. In this bespoke role you’ll be required to deliver compliance and assurance activities to professional, ethical and quality standards within the timescales set out. In this high-profile role, there will be an expectation to deliver continuous improvement, undertaking deep dives and lessons learnt sessions to ensure that that we can deliver ongoing improvements in compliance assessments and monitoring.

As this role works across the whole of Severn Trent Group, it will be your responsibility for managing the process for internal and external regulatory investigations, to professional, ethical and quality standard. In addition, you’ll responsible for the coordination and monitoring of EIR and Ofwat requests, ensuring that responses meet the required regulatory standards and SLAs.

Do you have the drive and willingness to ensure that as a business Severn Trent keep to their statutory obligations to ensure that we keep our customers and communities as safe as possible?

Well, if you do, read on.

Your key accountabilities in helping us will be:

• Champion a culture of compliance and assurance excellence, recognised as an expert for the business in this area.
• Accountable for overseeing the organisations responses to Environmental Information Requests in accordance with the Environmental Information Regulations 2004, ensuring compliance with statutory requirements and organisational standards. Collaborates across the business to assess and communicate the compliance implications of regulatory consultations, engaging both directly with teams and indirectly through key stakeholders, ensuring key compliance and regulatory risks are effectively identified and mitigated.
• Own and deliver the Group Compliance and Assurance programme of work within the established business partnering model, providing timely and insightful updates throughout the year and leading the production of the Annual Risk and Compliance Statement for publication within the Annual Performance Report.
• Provide strategic oversight and assurance activities to the highest professional, ethical, and quality standards, exercising sound judgement to define the scope and testing approach required to assess key compliance risks and provide meaningful assurance over the effectiveness of associated controls.

You will report into the Group Compliance Manager.

You’ll be based at our Severn Trent Centre in Coventry
. With this being such a critical role, we’re looking for someone who can join us 37 hours a week
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You’ll join a caring culture that collaborates to achieve, grow, and develop. Our employee engagement scores are among the highest globally in energy and utilities. That’s why, we value in-person…