Compliance & Assurance Partner

Worthing, England, United Kingdom

6/19/2025

Closing Date

2025-07-14

Job Title: Compliance and Assurance Partner

Location: Worthing, West Sussex (2 days a week)

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: 37 hours per week

Salary: circa £50,000

There has never been a better time to join our organisation as we build towards a greener future, tackling climate change, minimising our environmental impact and reducing our carbon footprint!

Job Overview

Due to an increase in regulatory assurance requirements, we are expanding our existing team. We are looking for three new Compliance and Assurance Partners to support the delivery of a programme of work on regulatory reporting assurance. This includes regulatory delivery plans, and providing internal assessment and assurance, and supporting externally sourced resources to ensure Southern Water meets its non-financial obligations.

• Providing support to management on the regulatory landscape and specific requirements to ensure compliance with statutory and regulatory obligations (with a focus on regulatory reporting compliance with Ofwat, EA, DWI and CCW).
• Supporting the delivery of internal and external assurance programmes over non-financial regulatory reporting, action plans and delivery plans facilitating the assurance process and liaising with internal teams to drive appropriate action in response to assurance outcomes.
• In collaboration with other internal governance teams such as Internal Audit and Risk and Control supporting delivery of improvements in controls and assurance, regulatory reporting, delivery planning, and information management.
• Supporting the maintenance and improvement of the compliance management framework for oversight of regulatory compliance (people, processes, procedures and systems reporting).
  
  

About You

• Knowledge of and relevant experience in developing, designing and controlling documents supporting a management systems such an ISO management system standards.
• Practical application of risk and control management frameworks and different governance models, including three lines of defence, within a complex organisation.
• Understanding and experience of working in a risk and assurance management framework.
• Relevant degree / professional qualifications and or demonstrable relevant experience in a process, system, risk and controls role.
• Knowledge of developing and applying business processes, governance, delivery planning, information controls and assurance.
  
  

Package

Benefits

This role will be full time Monday to Friday with a hybrid approach to working between our Durrington office and home. We are offering a salary of up to £50,000 per annum depending on skills and experience as well as other benefits including:

• Generous pension up to 11% company contribution
• 25 days annual leave
• Life assurance equal to 4x salary
• Salary sacrifice electric car scheme (after 6 months service)
• Health Cash Plan
• Full funded eye tests
• Two paid volunteering days a year
• Occupational health service
• Discounts with over 800 popular retailers
• Digital GP service
• Study support may be available for job-related qualifications
• Competitive maternity leave and flexible return to work options
• Cycle to work scheme
  
  

Join our Risk, Audit and Assurance team and see how far your career could progress with a company committed to career progression, training and development opportunities, our customers and the environment.

Does this opportunity excite you but you’re not 100% sure if you meet all the requirements for the role? Or are you concerned that ‘normal’ office hours aren’t possible given your personal circumstances? Whilst we can’t accommodate every flexible working request, we’ll try to find a practical solution. So why not engage with us and find out more about this role?

If this role isn’t quite what you’re looking for but are keen to be contacted about opportunities at Southern Water, you can register your details here: Introduce Yourself (myworkdaysite.com)

Our customers are at the heart of everything we do, because delivering water for life is our core purpose. To achieve this, we need 24/7 support in place to resolve incidents quickly and efficiently. All our employees understand the importance of out-of-hours incident support – because when problems appear, fixing them is our top priority. That’s why our people join together and support when and however needed to make sure our customers get the service they deserve. Joining the Southern Water family means you’ll become part of our incident support team. During your interview, your manager will speak to you about any incident support rotas that apply to your position.

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Please note: If you are an existing Southern Water employee, you will need to confirm within your application that your Manager is aware of your application.

All applicants must be eligible to live and work in the UK. You will need to provide evidence of eligibility (e.g. a passport or long birth certificate and proof of NI) and current proof of address (dated within the last 3 months), will be required as part of the recruitment process. If you do not meet these criteria, your application will not be considered.