Manager - HR Risk and Compliance

As the HR Risk & Compliance Senior Manager you will:

• Operate effectively in a complex environment with multiple HR and firm stakeholders, managing competing agendas and ambiguity.
• Build and maintain trusted relationships with key business stakeholders across UK HR, EMEA, Global, and Enabling Functions.
• Drive the HR risk and compliance strategy, working with HR & Enabling Functions risk leaders and HR Centre of Excellence (CoE) colleagues to embed a robust HR risk framework.
• Oversee processes to treat HR risks and issues, ensuring compliance with HR legal, regulatory (e.g., FCA/SMCR, SRA, ICAEW, ISQM1, Legal Right to Work, EU AI Act, GDPR), and firm-wide standards, policies, and procedures.
• Leverage deep skills, knowledge, research, and business acumen to drive business value and impact in enterprise and operational risk management within a complex HR regulatory and legal landscape.
• Collaborate across the three lines of defence (HR, Quality & Risk, and Audit) to support People & Purpose focused outcomes and foster a nimble, cohesive, risk-aware culture within the HR team.
• Oversee the Business Continuity and resilience planning for HR.
• Continue to embed the HR Risk & Compliance framework using simple business language in an open and concise manner that shifts HR to a risk-aware culture.
• Provide coaching and guidance to HR Leaders and colleagues on matters aligned to HR risk and compliance.
• Embed an HR risk reporting and governance framework to support an insightful risk management portfolio view for key stakeholders.
• Support teams across HR to manage their processes, policies and supporting documentation (FAQ, Knowledge articles, IGrafx) aligned to the firm's quality standard.
• Partner with stakeholders across HR & HR Services to develop and embed accountability for standardised HR controls and frameworks to address key operational risks.
• Providing ongoing assurance of HR controls to initiative reviews and assessments where required.
• Develop deep knowledge of Deloitte's policies, processes, and obligations.
  
  Experience operating at Senior Manager level with a deep working HR risk and compliance/operations knowledge with the demonstrated ability to shift with ease between strategic and tactical agendas.
• Experience building cross-functional partnerships and influencing stakeholders across the organisation to act without having a direct reporting relationship. with ability to tailor message and style appropriately to a senior stakeholder group; ability to win confidence quickly using simple business language and appropriate challenge will be key to success.
• Experience working in a highly commercial, fast paced, complex and transformative environment, ideally (not essentially), within Financial, Professional Services or Regulated environment.
• Experience in the provision of pro-active risk-based advice, balancing consistency of approach and decision making with pragmatic solutions that drive compliance.
• A problem solver, able to troubleshoot issues independently or escalate, when necessary, sense of accountability and sound professional judgment. Ability to interpret data and use this to spot trends and make considered decisions quickly and with confidence.
• Comfortable in a fast-paced and complex matrix environment and relish working in a change environment while delivering to the business on a day-to-day basis.
• Understanding and ability to operate within a COE model and how to leverage those relationships to deliver risk-based judgements and projects.
• Experience building an environment of transparency and open communication to help influence change and build relationships.
• Experience leading a team. Understand expectations and demonstrate personal accountability for keeping team performance on track.
Desirables:
• Experience with Monday.com, Igrafx, Microsoft packages.
• Experience working within an HR environment, understanding HR law.
  
  Connect to your Industry
Join our HR Risk & Compliance team, within People Operational Effectiveness within Human Resources (HR) and play a critical, strategic role in protecting our firm. This is where your expertise in people risk and issue management, regulatory compliance, amongst many other key skills, directly shapes how we can identify and treat risk matters within HR. We offer a dynamic environment for tackling complex, evolving challenges and fostering innovative solutions. You'll collaborate across the firm in an inclusive culture that values diverse perspectives. If you're a proactive, curious professional ready to make a significant impact and drive strategic change in a forward-thinking team, this is your opportunity to build a compliant, risk-aware, and resilient firm with us. Connect to your career at Deloitte Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients' become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more. What brings us all together at Deloitte? It's how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most., Collaboration is central to everything we do at Deloitte. From IT to HR, marketing and more, our teams help to support the wider business in everything they do. Bringing your individual skills and specialist knowledge, you can make a far-reaching impact. Come join us. Human Resources At Deloitte, Human Resources is transforming. We are already an award-winning HR team but we're not resting there. We want to make an impact that matters for our people, our clients and for society. To achieve this, we're firmly embedding HR into the business, advising and innovating along with our business leaders. Personal independence Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process or you can contact the Independence team upon request. Connect with your colleagues "It is a fantastic opportunity to be part of the NSE team, working with colleagues and leaders from across the Geos to progress and realize the benefits from enabling a stronger collaborative multi-geo firm." - Deloitte employee, Enabling Functions Our hybrid working policy You'll be based in one of our UK offices with hybrid working. At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That's why we'll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you'll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely. You'll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Please check with your recruiter for the specific working requirements that may apply for your role. Our commitment to you Making an impact is more than just what we do: it's why we're here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before. We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we're nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we'll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it's only when you're comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for. Your expertise is our capability, so we'll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it's from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you'll learn every day. Through world-class development, you'll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you'll learn how to lead.