HR Quality Assurance Assistant Manager, HR Risk and Compliance, Secondment or FTC

In today's fast-moving and highly regulated business environment, the quality, consistency and compliance of HR operations have never been more important. As organisations navigate increasing regulatory expectations, complex vendor ecosystems, evolving technology platforms and growing demands for data integrity, effective HR risk management is critical to maintaining trust and operational excellence.

Within Deloitte, our HR function plays a pivotal role in ensuring our people experience is supported by robust governance, strong controls and efficient processes. The HR Risk & Compliance team sits at the heart of this work, helping to shape the frameworks, standards and assurance activities that enable HR to operate effectively, mitigate risk and continuously improve. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a function that influences the quality, integrity and effectiveness of HR operations across one of the world's leading professional services firms.

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As an HR Quality Assurance Assistant Manager within the HR Risk & Compliance team, you will support the HR Risk and Compliance Manager in delivering independent, risk-based second-line assurance over HR services. You will assess whether priority HR processes and controls are appropriately designed and operating consistently and effectively, in line with internal policies, regulatory requirements and the principles of a mature quality management system.

Working across HR Services, you will partner constructively with process and control owners while retaining an objective assurance perspective. First‑line teams will own the investigation and remediation of non‑conformities, including root‑cause analysis and corrective actions; you will monitor progress, test closure evidence, identify recurring or systemic themes and support timely escalation through the quality assurance framework to relevant governance forums.

Key areas of impact will include:

• Delivering risk‑based quality assurance: Support the HR Risk and Compliance team to maintain a proportionate assurance plan informed by process criticality, regulatory exposure, service performance, change, incidents, and previous review findings.
• Conducting second‑line reviews and control testing: Plan and perform evidence‑based reviews of priority HR processes and controls, assessing defined requirements, implementation, operating consistency and effectiveness, and documenting clear conclusions.
• Maintaining assurance standards and methods: Support the development and consistent application of the HR quality assurance framework, including review methodology, sampling approaches, evidence standards, rating criteria, reporting templates and records.
• Reporting quality performance: Analyse indicators covering service quality, control effectiveness, compliance, incidents, repeat findings and remediation progress, translating data…