At MHR, our employees are central to our success and play a key role in helping customers achieve sustainable high performance. With a team of over 900 professionals, we work to make things flow smoothly, whether it's for large organisations or individual employees. As businesses face rapid changes in the world of work, our team is here to help them adapt and thrive.
By focusing on the core needs of efficiency, productivity, growth, and impact, our employees use their expertise to deliver real solutions through our People and Finance platform. This system, which covers finance, HR, payroll, and learning, helps businesses run more smoothly and make better decisions in real time.
With over 40 years of experience behind us, MHR’s track record as a high-performance organisation is built on clear goals, a shared vision, and strong communication—all of which we pass on to our customers.
MHR is more than just a place to work; it’s a platform for empowerment. Joining us means bringing innovation, technology, and teamwork seamlessly removes obstacles, enhances your skills, and allow you to focus on what’s most important to you- work that matters.
With us, you’ll grow, find your flow, and make a lasting difference in your career, your team, and your impact.
Your Career
This is an excellent starting point for someone looking to build a long-term career in technical compliance, audit and governance. You’ll gain direct experience in a central function that supports regulatory readiness, risk reduction, and business improvement across the organisation. As the function grows and matures, there will be opportunities to gain further experience across other areas including risk, software assurance, or environmental specialisms.
Your Team
The Business Assurance team is at the heart of ensuring MHR meets its legal, regulatory, and best practice obligations. We work across the business to promote good governance, manage risk, and deliver robust internal audit and compliance programmes. With current challenges including SOC 2, ISO standards, and evolving environmental commitments, you’ll be joining at a pivotal moment - playing an important part in safeguarding the business while developing your own professional capabilities.
Your Impact
As a Business Compliance Officer (Technical), you will ensure the organisation’s digital operations meet regulatory and internal standards by overseeing compliance frameworks, managing risk, and driving continuous improvement. You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement and monitor technology-driven processes, conduct audits, maintain accurate documentation, and support governance activities. Your role will be key in identifying non-compliance risks, leading investigations, and ensuring robust controls are in place to safeguard data, systems, and business integrity.
What You’ll Bring To The Role And MHR
While this is an entry-level role and not a mature position, we do expect candidates to bring some prior experience to support their success. We require you to have had, and be able to provide evidence of, exposure to business assurance, compliance, audit, or risk-related activities, whether through previous roles, internships, or academic projects. Ideally, this experience should include working with technical information systems, IT compliance, or IT audit. Exposure to regulatory frameworks, information security standards (such as ISO27001, SOC2, or GDPR), or technology-driven controls is highly desirable. This experience will provide a foundational understanding of regulatory frameworks, internal controls, and governance processes, enabling you to quickly contribute to the team while continuing to develop your technical expertise.
In this role you will
- Oversee and maintain business assurance frameworks, ensuring alignment with regulatory standards and collaborating with stakeholders to uphold compliance.
- Identify, assess, and mitigate risks related to non-compliance, developing proactive strategies to safeguard business operations.
- Conduct regular audits, support internal and external audit activities, and contribute to governance processes through accurate documentation and collaboration.
- Implement and manage business process changes, regularly review procedures, and drive continuous improvement initiatives.
- Maintain and update operational procedures, policies, and compliance records to ensure clarity, consistency, and accessibility.
- Lead investigations as required, performing root cause analysis to resolve issues and prevent recurrence.
- Provide evidence for the above activities both internally and externally to compliance standards such as SOC2, GDPR, BACS, ISO9001 & ISO27001.
Benefits To Support You Personally And Professionally
Alongside the opportunity to work with an incredible team and express your individuality, we offer a range of personalised benefits including:
- Access to over 60 internal training courses, professional qualifications, and cross-departmental mentoring and coaching programs
- 24/7 access to a GP through Help at Hand for you and your family, confidential mental health support, and paid sick leave
- Ability to purchase or sell additional holiday days beyond 25 days and bank holidays
- Enhanced Family leave
- My MHRewards offering discounts at over 900 retailers
- Monthly employee recognition program and departmental awards
- Referral bonus scheme of up to £2,000
- Employee-led social events such as running clubs, football teams, book clubs, and bake-offs
- On-site subsidised restaurants offering a variety of fresh meals daily
- Opt-in benefits schemes such as private medical insurance and dental coverage
We value the well-being, financial stability, and inclusivity of our employees, and strive to provide a supportive working environment.
At MHR, we’re completely committed to creating a supportive and inclusive workplace where all voices are heard, and everyone feels valued and supported.
Whatever your background, abilities and experiences, if you’re excited by this role we want to hear from you. If you require assistance for an interview, please let us know and we’ll make sure your needs are met when you arrive.
