About the role

You'll be responsible for leading the People Risk and Controls agenda for our core activities, ensuring our risks are assessed and controls are designed effectively to future proof our business, provide strong governance and assurance, and remediate audit issue. This is a group level role which spans across all our core People processes, which means strong business partnering is a must, along with strong team and project management skills. Agile working and pragmatism is key, where you are expected to focus on our most critical, key risks and controls with the business and support opportunities to further standardise and improve our maturity.

You will be responsible for

• Developing and leading a high performing team, creating an environment for success by setting direction and coaching them to succeed through inspiring conversations every day. (Refer to the expectations of a manager at Tesco- the minimum standards)
• Oversees the development and optimisation of end-to-end Controls Frameworks as part of our "1 RACM" initiative across all key people processes, across in scope markets
• Leads on controls, issue and audit remediation work, partnering with the 1stline teams to ensure this is completed timely
• Leads on key governance forums such as our People Risk and Compliance Committee, managing stakeholders, content and presentation to senior stakeholders
• Oversees risk management activities including risk assessment and monitoring emerging risk, utilising our risk tools/systems and Group Risk Methodology such as RCA
• Collaborate with the 1stline People teams on Employment Compliance, to ensure compliance with existing obligations and emerging changes to legislation
• Oversees SOD for People roles in our systems, ensuring access and conflicts are managed appropriately
• Leads compliance on our External Reporting obligations including CSRD
• Business Partnering across our 1stline People teams across markets globally
• Business Partnering with 3rd line teams in Internal and External Audit, and 2nd line teams such as Group Risk
• Review and support the design and operational effectiveness testing of key and non-key controls by working with the testing team in India
• Provide technical guidance and deliver training to control performers/owners and other key stakeholders
• Re-engineer procedures, policy, process, controls to mitigate risk
• Work with the transformation teams to ensure control requirements are built into new system design
• Leads continuous improvement initiatives to drive performance within their teams