Control Monitoring Analyst

Ideas People Trust

We're BDO. An accountancy and business advisory firm, providing the advice and solutions entrepreneurial organisations need to navigate today's changing world.

We work with the companies that are Britain's economic engine - ambitious, entrepreneurially-spirited and high growth businesses that fuel the economy - and directly advise the owners and management teams that lead them.

We'll broaden your horizons

The Quality and Risk Management Team (QRM) provides leadership, guidance, and tools to help partners and staff manage quality and risk matters. The team is comprised of an Advisory and Compliance Team, a Chief Information Security Office Team, an Economic Crime Team, a Legal Team, the Independence and Ethics Team and the Regulatory Supervisory Team, plus the Quality Monitoring Team. The team works closely with the firm's Technical Standards Group and the firm's leadership.

We'll help you succeed

Leading organisations trust us because of the quality of our advice. That quality grows from a thorough understanding of their business, and that understanding comes from working closely with them and building long-lasting relationships.

You'll be someone who is both comfortable working proactively and managing your own tasks, as well as confident collaborating with others and communicating regularly with senior managers, directors, and BDO's partners to help businesses effectively. You'll be encouraged to identify and draw attention to opportunities for enhancing our delivery and providing additional services to organisations we work with.

The Control Monitoring Analyst role reports to the Cyber Assurance Manager. The role will work across team and wider firm boundaries, engaging with both the streams and practice management departments (PMD's) to ensure that controls are built and implemented, monitored, and evaluated, and that these are auditable and documented within the process models.

In this busy and rewarding role your key areas of responsibility are:

• Work as part of a team to perform as second line of defence within an interactive and challenging role responsible for ISO.
• Lead on audit contribution to the design, implementation and monitoring of policy and quality standards, procedures and systems ensuring effective working and continuous improvement.
• Effectively report on findings and produce metrics for management review.
• Ensure all activities, processes and transactions are accounted for accurately and promptly to meet regulatory and professional service and policy standards.
• Act as a point of contact for any internal and external assurance stakeholders (e.g., external auditors) for their enquiries relating to assurance, audit, and risk issues.
• Conduct Internal audits against the known monitoring controls across the firm and locations.
• Conduct Discovery audits across the firm and locations to ensure compliance and accuracy against the controls that should be assigned to their respective areas.
• Provide professional guidance to stakeholders on audit, assurance, risk, and control.
• Work closely with the ISO teams assuring adherence to standards and practices by way of reviews and continual service improvement activities.
• Review what is being done to mitigate risk, reduce residual risk and identify issues before they arise.
• Actively participate in assisting the business with the Audit relationship from an operational risk perspective
• Contribute to the compliance processes by identifying opportunities for improved adherence to risk and compliance requirements and standards.
• Provide oversight on tracking and closure of issues arising from review findings.

You'll be someone with:

Experience:

• Experience in Informational Security Governance and Assurance, implementing governance and compliance within best practice frameworks.
• Experience of working to the ISO27001 Framework.
• In-depth knowledge of the controls and requirements for ISO accreditation.
• Analytical skills with a proactive approach to problem solving.
• Understand the audit process, having worked with Audit (internal & external) in the past.
• Working knowledge of risk and compliance assurance and monitoring practices, and a good understanding of the risk and compliance issues.
• An aptitude for working in a regulated environment and for building compliance by design.

Behaviours and attitude:

• Encourages and facilitates cooperation and results, fostering an environment of collaboration.
• Excellent communication and organisational skills. Ability to present to non-technical audiences.
• Inspires, motivates, supports, and guides other team members.
• Builds both formal and informal professional networks.
• Makes recommendations clearly linked to the firm's strategy.
• Demonstrates personal commitment to change and continual improvement.
• Embodies the BDO values.
• Shows a passion for Information Security and enthusiasm for quality and governance.
• Has the confidence to challenge assumptions when developing ideas and suggestions.
• Understands the importance of teamwork and shared motivation for the same goal.
• Demonstrated ability to independently prioritise and manage competing work assignments in a time sensitive environment.

You'll be able to be yourself; we'll recognise and value you for who you are and celebrate and reward your contributions to our business. We're committed to agile working, and we offer everyone the opportunity to work in ways that suit them, their teams, and the task at hand.

At BDO, we'll help you achieve your personal goals and career ambitions, and we have programmes, resources, and frameworks that provide clarity and structure around career development.

We're in it together

Mutual support and respect is one of BDO's core values and we're proud of our distinctive, people-centred culture. From informal success conversations to formal mentoring and coaching, we'll support you at every stage in your career, whatever your personal and professional needs. Our agile working framework helps us stay connected, bringing teams together where and when it counts so they can share ideas and help one another. At BDO, you'll always have access to the people and resources you need to do your best work.

We know that collaboration is the key to creating value and satisfying experiences at work, so we've invested in state-of-the-art collaboration spaces in our offices. BDO's people represent a wealth of knowledge and expertise, and we'll encourage you to build your network, work alongside others, and share your skills and experiences. With a range of multidisciplinary events and dedicated resources, you'll never stop learning at BDO.

We're looking forward to the future

At BDO, we help entrepreneurial businesses to succeed, fuelling the UK economy. Our success is powered by our people, which is why we're always finding new ways to invest in you. Across the UK thousands of unique minds continue to come together to help companies we work with to achieve their ambitions.

We've got a clear purpose, and we're confident in our future, because we're adapting and evolving to build on our strengths, ensuring we continue to find the right combination of global reach, integrity and expertise. We shape the future together with openness and clarity, because we believe in empowering people to think creatively about how we can do things better.