Senior Compliance Assurance Officer

Job description

The Senior Compliance Assurance Officer plays a key role in delivering effective, risk-based compliance assurance across the EMAP region. This role is suited to someone who can combine strong hands-on assurance delivery with a broader responsibility to contribute to the continuous improvement across the function. You will lead and support compliance assurance reviews across a broad and varied business environment, working with stakeholders to assess controls, identify and test compliance risks, report findings clearly, and help drive actions through to resolution.

This role has a wider remit than the delivery of assurance reviews. Alongside assurance execution, you will help strengthen methodology, reporting quality, and manage GenAI-enabled tooling, while contributing to how the Compliance Assurance function evolves across the region.

What You'll Be Doing

• Lead assurance reviews and regional delivery
• Plan and execute compliance assurance reviews in line with the Global Compliance Management Programme and the annual

EMAP Compliance Assurance Plan

• Define review scope, testing approach, and review programmes
• Build and perform testing of compliance controls
• Conduct fieldwork, reviews, and fact-finding meetings
• Maintain clear, accurate, and high-quality working papers Turn findings into action
• Prepare reports that clearly set out findings, risks, conclusions, and required actions
• Work with business owners and management to agree practical action plans and mitigation steps
• Track agreed actions through to closure and report on progress
• Escalate high-risk issues where appropriate Shape the wider assurance approach
• Support the Head of Compliance Assurance in developing and implementing the compliance risk monitoring and testing process
• Provide input into the annual

Compliance Assurance Plan

• Support other EMAP Compliance colleagues in undertaking compliance testing and applying a consistent assurance approach
• Help maintain and evolve the EMAP Compliance Assurance methodology, reporting templates, and GenAI tooling to improve productivity and effectiveness
• Support governance and regional insight
• Maintain accurate records in Archer and track open issues raised by the team Help keep management informed through clear reporting on key indicators, deliverables, and review progress
• Maintain a broad understanding of the business and regulatory environment in which Experian operates
• Contribute insight on recurring risk themes and opportunities to improve assurance effectiveness across the region

Qualifications

Technical and functional capability Good working knowledge of EU privacy and data protection regulation and its key principles Experience planning and delivering assurance or testing reviews from scoping through reporting

• Strong analytical, investigative, interviewing, and testing skills Confidence using Excel and PowerPoint and developing or maintaining analysis and reporting tools
• Strong organisation, planning, and project management capability Experience and judgment Around
• 5 years of experience in monitoring, testing, assurance, or audit within regulatory compliance Experience working in a substantial regulated organisation, ideally in Financial Services
• Strong judgment and the ability to assess complex issues in a pragmatic, risk-based way
• Ability to operate independently while balancing detail, pace, and regional context Stakeholder and communication strength
• Ability to work effectively with business owners, compliance colleagues, and senior management
• Strong written communication skills, including the ability to produce clear and well-structured reports Fluent in English
• Ability to support and influence others across a regional team without formal line-management authority Professional audit qualification such as ACCA, CIA, or CISA