Head of Compliance, Risk & Assurance

At Gattaca, our purpose is simple; to provide the skills needed to build a better future, one job at a time.

We're looking for an experienced and people-focused Head of Compliance, Risk & Assurance to lead our Compliance function and ensure our processes, controls and governance standards support the delivery of exceptional outcomes for our clients, candidates, contractors and colleagues.

This is an opportunity with responsibility for contractor compliance, health and safety, insurance management, risk assurance and the effectiveness of the Group's control environment. You'll play a critical role in protecting the business, supporting sustainable growth and ensuring we continue to meet our legal, regulatory, contractual and governance obligations.

As Head of Compliance, Risk & Assurance, you'll be responsible for the day-to-day leadership and operational delivery of Group compliance activities. ensuring robust governance, effective controls and operational excellence across all compliance and assurance activities.

You’ll lead a team responsible for the Group's compliance framework, risk assurance programme and controls structure, ensuring the business operates in accordance with legal, regulatory, client, contractual and accreditation requirements.

You will provide leadership across contractor compliance and assurance activities, health and safety management, insurance programmes, mandatory training compliance and the ongoing monitoring of key operational and regulatory risks.

Working closely with stakeholders across Sales, Finance, Technology, People and Operations, you'll act as a trusted operational leader who balances commercial awareness with robust risk management.

• Leading and developing our Compliance team.

• Ensuring compliance activities are delivered accurately, efficiently and within agreed service levels.

• Managing contractor compliance processes and regulatory requirements.

• Maintaining effective compliance frameworks, controls, governance and governance processes.

• Managing compliance risks, escalations and operational issues.

• Identifying opportunities to improve processes, systems and ways of working.

• Building strong relationships with stakeholders across the business.

• Producing reporting and insight to support operational decision-making.

• Embedding a culture of accountability, quality and continuous improvement.

• Own and continuously enhance the Group's Risk Assurance Framework.

• Maintain the Group's risk register and support business leaders in identifying, assessing and managing risks.

• Coordinate periodic risk reviews and assurance activities across the Group.

• Monitor control effectiveness and ensure remediation plans are implemented where control weaknesses are identified.

• Provide meaningful risk, compliance and assurance reports to the Director of Technology & Transformation and Audit Committee.

• Lead the Groups assurance reviews and accreditation programmes including ISO accreditations.

• Manage relationships with auditors, accreditation bodies and assurance providers.

• Drive continuous improvement activities arising from audit findings, reviews and business feedback.

• Maintain oversight of the Group's Health & Safety framework, policies and procedures.

• Ensure appropriate controls and processes are in place to manage workplace and operational health & safety risks.

• Monitor health & safety compliance, reporting and incident management processes.

• Support investigations into significant incidents and ensure appropriate corrective actions are implemented.

• Promote a proactive health & safety culture across the business.

• Overse…