VodafoneThree - Assurance Governance and Enablement Manager

Overview

Working hours: Full time 37.5 hours per week - Monday to Friday. This role sits at the centre of the Assurance Enablement function, ensuring governance, tracking, and execution across all assurance activity. You will oversee control execution, coordinate recovery and remediation plans, and provide clear visibility of progress against strategy. Combining strong organisation with stakeholder influence, you will bring structure, discipline, and transparency to assurance delivery, helping ensure controls are effective and outcomes are consistently achieved.

Responsibilities

Support the day to day operation of the assurance model, ensuring consistent execution across all areas.

Track assurance control execution, ensuring activities are completed on time and to required standards.

Monitor control coverage and identify gaps, risks, or inconsistencies in execution.

Coordinate recovery and remediation plans, ensuring clear ownership and timely delivery.

Maintain oversight of risks, issues, dependencies, and key delivery milestones.

Act as a central coordination point across Assurance Pods, Transformation, and key stakeholders.

Produce high quality governance packs, dashboards, and leadership reporting.

Provide regular updates on assurance performance, risks, and progress against strategy.

Ensure transparency and visibility of assurance activity across Finance Operations.

Support alignment of priorities across teams, ensuring focus on key risk areas.

Challenge and elevate where assurance execution is off track or below expected standards.

Drive consistency in reporting, governance, and execution frameworks.

Support continuous improvement of assurance processes, controls, and ways of working.

Facilitate cross team communication and ensure a strong feedback loop into assurance delivery.

Act as deputy to the Assurance Enablement Manager, ensuring continuity of leadership when required.

Qualifications

You bring strong experience in assurance, risk, controls, or finance operations, with a good understanding of governance frameworks.

You are highly organised and detail oriented, with the ability to manage and track multiple complex activities simultaneously.

Confident working cross functionally, aligning teams and stakeholders without direct authority.

You communicate clearly and confidently, producing structured reporting and engaging senior stakeholders.

You have the ability to see both the detail and the bigger picture, maintaining end to end oversight.

You are comfortable challenging and holding teams to account to ensure high standards are met.

You thrive in fast paced environments, bringing structure and clarity to ambiguity.

You are proactive and solutions focused, always looking for ways to improve processes and outcomes.

You demonstrate strong ownership and accountability, with a focus on delivery and results.

You are motivated to develop into a broader assurance leadership role over time.