Senior Assurance Manager

Join our journey to create a new experience for the National Lottery and help us to power change for the greater good.

About us:

We are Allwyn UK, part of the Allwyn Entertainment Group – a multi-national lottery operator with a market-leading presence in Austria, the Czech Republic, Greece, Cyprus and Italy. We have been officially awarded the Fourth Licence (10 year licence) to operate the National Lottery starting February 2024.

We’ve developed ground-breaking technologies, built player protection frameworks, and have a proven track record of making lotteries better. Our aim is to create one of the UK’s most inclusive organisations – where people can bring the best of themselves, to do their best work, every day, for the benefit of good causes.

While the main contribution of the National Lottery to society is through the funds to good causes, at Allwyn we put our purpose and values at the heart of everything we do. Join us as we embark on a once-in-a-lifetime, largescale transformation journey to build a bigger, better, and safer National Lottery that delivers more money to good causes.

Role Purpose:

Allwyn operates a Three Lines of defence model. First line Functional Management & Staff, Second line Functional Compliance, Risk & Insurance and Central Compliance and Third Line Internal Audit. As part of the first line, you will participate and feed into the Central Second line and Third line of Defence’s risks universe to enable an aligned and integrated assurance approach.

The primary responsibilities of the Operations Assurance team is to implement a robust forward looking Assurance framework in the Operations team.

Role Responsibilities:

• Lead and embed the Assurance, Compliance and Risk frameworks and objectives across Operations with particular focus on enhancing risk management, Controls activity, real time compliance, governance, outcomes and monitoring activities.
• Support the Operations teams to ensure the effective implementation, execution and monitoring of the wider National Lottery licence conditions and Matters to be Protected.
• Key touch point, in the first line, for ensuring the integrity of regulatory reporting obligations within the Operations team
• Support the Operations team (first line) to provide assurance primarily to the various governance committees, on the effectiveness of the Operations control environment.
• Support putting in place putting in place and /or assessing the effectiveness of policies, procedures and processes.
• Support the Operations team to identify and correctly meet the company direction with regards to adopting standards (align, adhere, accredit etc) and demonstrate Best Practice in accordance with policy and business reporting need
• Enhance and make efficient Allwyn’s self assessment control framework and identify areas for continuous improvement.
• Ensure the maintenance of Self Assessment and Risk Register activities. The level of the activity will depend on the Inherent risk rating in each area.
• Act as the conduit between the Assurance Function and the Operations team to support in the delivery of Business requirements in relation to OBDM and wider Licence Outcomes.

Key Measures of Success:

• Operating with integrity and staying independent
• Assurance activities are supported by adequate documentation, peer reviews and quality checks.
• Operations team risk register is up to date and has appropriate sign off as scheduled
• Operations team self assessment activity is up to date and completed as scheduled
• Delivery of activity to support Outcomes Based Decision Making (OBDM) and wider business assurance requirements

Key Skills and Experience:

• Bright, highly analytical and intellectually agile, able to learn and manage complexity quickly.
• High level of integrity and independence whilst also able to successfully partner with the business in meaningful ways through building trusting relationships and connections.
• A strong collaborator, influencer, listener, to build consensus and a constructive working relationship across the organisation.
• Expert in GDPR and consumer data protection (relevant for Retail and Customer & Retail Care sensitive data)
• Excellent communication skills and executive presence, and ability to influence a variety of internal and external stakeholders.
• Strong Operations acumen and strategic mind-set.
• Strong experience in a Operations environment, along with regulatory exposure.
• Demonstrate experience of leadership and operating at a senior leadership level within Risk, Compliance and or Internal Audit.
• High level of personal integrity and ability to maintain independence whilst also building strong and impactful relationships across Operations, Risk & Insurance, Central Assurance teams and various Governance Committees.

• 26 days paid leave (plus bank holidays)
• Annual bonus scheme
• 2 x Life Days
• 4 x Salary of Life Insurance
• Pension: we’ll match your contribution up to 8.5%
• Single Private Health Cover
• £500 Wellness Allowance
• Income Protection
• Enhanced parental leave (maternity and paternity)
• Eye Care, Dental and Cycle To Work schemes