Are you passionate about assurance and audit? Do you have proven expertise and skills within risk based landlord compliance? Do you want to play a key role in assisting Bromford achieve its strategic goals aligned to our purpose - we invest in homes and relationships so people can thrive? You belong at Bromford.

We are looking for an Assurance Manager to join us on a fixed term maternity cover contract until December 2023. Reporting to the Head of Health & Safety, Assurance, you will bring your proven auditor expertise and skills to lead and own the development of our overall assurance plan, leading and supporting the growing assurance team and directly leading on the H&S compliance audits.

You’ll lead, support and coach a small team of auditors and be responsible for the programme of practical and value-added independent reviews that ensure we maintain the highest levels of control and legislative compliance. Your remit will include the delivery of assurance across the transformation of our asset compliance systems to a single Enterprise Asset Management system through D365 and the internalisation of the gas servicing project team, developing the assurance plan for both projects, providing confidence to both the project team and senior leadership teams that all risks are adequately controlled pre and post mobilisation.

You will join the Health, Safety and Assurance team and work collaboratively alongside business leaders and colleagues to assure that our compliance control frameworks are operating effectively. You will lead the development of the business frameworks and provide business user support, offering advice and challenge to colleagues, and providing insightful independent assurance to the Executive and Board through control testing, reporting and delivery of the assurance programme.

This role is a fantastic opportunity to harness your assurance and audit experience and really make an impact. This is a roaming role with a mix of office and remote working and your base can be at any of our offices in Wolverhampton (WV10), Tewkesbury (GL20) or South Gloucestershire (BS37).

We are looking for you to bring these skills and experience:

• Specific experience and proven expertise in an audit related role (essential) within a regulated industry (desired)
• Knowledge of landlord compliance legal requirements
• Knowledge of IIA standards
• Desire and drive to learn, grow and have impact quickly as part of an expanding team
• Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Strong interpersonal communication skills
• Experience working in a fast-paced environment with a focus on execution
• Experience of health and safety auditing and asset/ landlord compliance (desirable)
• Experience in social housing, or construction, manufacturing, utilities sectors (desirable)
• Evidence of continuing professional development.

A place to be you!

Being able to express yourself at work helps you connect with people and gives you the freedom to perform better at your job. We believe diversity helps drive success, so we want to build a culture where all our differences are celebrated. Everybody should feel that they belong and are able to bring their true, authentic selves to work. We want an organisation that reflects the communities and the people that we serve and if we can achieve this, we know that we will create an environment where everyone is included and can thrive.

Closing date for applications is 17th February 2023 but we will be reviewing applications as we receive them and therefore reserve the right to close early should we find a suitable candidate. Don’t delay, apply today!

About us

We are a housing association – one of the biggest in the country, with 45,000 homes spread across central and south west England. We believe in providing warm, safe and secure homes. But ultimately, we’re a people business. Not only do we care about the 100,000 people who live in our homes, we want them to thrive.

We believe that having a great place to call home is just the start and with the right relationships and someone who believes in your potential, almost anything is possible. Our customers are the people that live in our homes for rent and shared ownership. Our customers are also those who rent our garages and our commercial buildings and those buying one of our homes for outright sale. That’s why we will continue to make a difference by investing in relationships and in connecting people, so our customers get to where they want to be. Because when they succeed, we succeed and that success drives us to do even more.