Senior Risk & Compliance Officer

Location: The Francis Crick Institute, Midland Road, London

Short summary

We’re recruiting for a Senior Risk and Compliance Officer whom will be essential in supporting the Crick to make the right choices on risk and compliance. This interesting and varied role will develop our organisational resilience by working across the Crick in delivering day to day management of internal audit, assurance, compliance, risk management and insurance activities.

The Risk and Compliance function reports into the Group Finance Director and works with them to support the Chief Finance Officer and General Counsel in ensuring that the Crick is delivering against our strategic priorities in relation to the below listed critical capabilities:  

• Compliance (where operational responsibility resides with the team)
• Internal Audit (working alongside our outsourced provider)
• Insurance
• Corporate Risk Management

Key Responsibilities

• Oversight of day-to-day delivery of a range of critical capabilities, essential for the safe running of the Crick including Corporate Risk Management, Compliance, Internal Audit and Insurance.
• Work closely with the Group Finance Director to inform the organisations related strategy, framework, and approach, for the critical capabilities listed, ensuring that these consistently align with the strategic priorities and objectives of the Institute, and that related resources have the necessary strategic impact.
• Provide advice and guidance directly to colleagues across the Crick, working with them on the assessment of risk and compliance and in developing recommendations for improvement, in relation to the capabilities listed.
• Support the organisation in working within a co-ordinated risk, ethics and compliance management framework.
• Support the Group Finance Director in creating a community of best practice and embody a culture of risk management across the organization, acting as a key business partner to all teams.
• Support the outsourced internal audit team with delivery of the annual internal audit program.

About us

The Francis Crick Institute is a biomedical discovery institute dedicated to understanding the fundamental biology underlying health and disease. Its work is helping to understand why disease develops and to translate discoveries into new ways to prevent, diagnose and treat illnesses such as cancer, heart disease, stroke, infections, and neurodegenerative diseases.

An independent organisation, its founding partners are the Medical Research Council, Cancer Research UK, Wellcome, UCL, Imperial College London and King’s College London.

The Crick was formed in 2015, and in 2016 it moved into a new state-of-the-art building in central London which brings together 1500 scientists and support staff working collaboratively across disciplines, making it the biggest biomedical research facility under in one building in Europe.

The Francis Crick Institute will be world-class with a strong national role. Its distinctive vision for excellence includes commitments to collaboration; developing emerging talent and exporting it the rest of the UK; public engagement; and helping turn discoveries into treatments as quickly as possible to improve lives and strengthen the economy. 

• If you are interested in applying for this role, please apply via our website.
• The closing date for applications is 02/09/2024
• All offers of employment are subject to successful security screening and continuous eligibility to work in the United Kingdom. 

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