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About the Role
Sky is establishing a new Enterprise Assurance capability within the Group Risk Office to provide a consistent, risk-based approach to understanding how effectively key policies, controls, and governance requirements are operating across the organization. This role will help shape this new capability from the ground up, influencing assurance delivery and driving visibility of control effectiveness and organizational risk. You will partner with senior leaders, policy owners, and subject matter experts to develop a broad view of organizational risks, controls, and governance arrangements, working alongside a Corporate Assurance Manager to ensure a robust, sustainable, and consistent approach to enterprise-wide assurance.
Responsibilities
- Lead assurance activity across Sky's technical policy and control environment, providing independent insight into policy adherence, control effectiveness, and areas for improvement.
- Assess whether key policies, controls, and governance arrangements are understood, embedded, and operating effectively.
- Partner with policy owners, control owners, and subject matter experts to strengthen business ownership of controls and support sustainable improvement.
- Help shape and evolve Sky's Enterprise Assurance framework, methodologies, and standards, ensuring assurance activity is delivered consistently and objectively.
- Identify opportunities to improve assurance effectiveness through better use of data, insight, reporting, and automation.
- Translate assurance findings into clear, practical recommendations and reporting for leaders and stakeholders.
- Contribute to enterprise-wide assurance reporting, helping build a consolidated view of control health, emerging risks, and improvement priorities across Sky.
- Work closely with the Corporate Assurance Manager to deliver a coordinated enterprise assurance approach across corporate and technical domains.
Requirements
- Ability to assess the design and effectiveness of policies, controls, and governance frameworks, identifying areas of weakness and opportunities for improvement.
- Expertise in translating assurance findings into clear, practical, and actionable insight for stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
- Strong understanding of technical governance frameworks, technical policy management, control environments, and organizational accountability.
- Strong stakeholder management and relationship-building skills, establishing credibility and trust across diverse business functions.
- Confidence to influence, challenge, and constructively hold stakeholders to account in support of improved control effectiveness and risk management.
- Strong problem-solving capability, identifying root causes, evaluating options, and driving sustainable improvements.
- Strong capability to collaborate with subject matter experts across the organization, building a joined-up view of policy adherence, control effectiveness, and assurance activity, and ensuring existing expertise and insight are leveraged to maximize enterprise-wide visibility of control health.
- Comfortable operating within a newly established function, helping shape methodologies, processes, and ways of working while maintaining a focus on delivery, continuous improvement, and long-term capability development.
- Background in technical assurance, technology risk, compliance, audit, or control-related disciplines.
- Demonstrated success in assessing technical policy adherence, control effectiveness, and the implementation of technical controls.
- Appropriate right to work in the UK.
- Sky does not offer sponsorship for this position.
Skills
- Technical assurance
- Technology risk
- Compliance
- Audit
- Control-related disciplines
- Stakeholder management
- Relationship-building
- Problem-solving
- Collaboration
Location
- Osterley Campus
Work Type
- Hybrid
- 3 Days in the office per week
Benefits
- Free Sky TV or NOW package, including Sky Sports and Sky Cinema
- Pension package with up to 9% employer contribution
- Private healthcare with mental health support
- Aviva Digital GP and dental insurance
- Discounts on Sky products, including Sky Mobile, Sky Broadband, Sky Glass and Sky Protect
- Sharesave and Tech schemes
- A range of Sky VIP rewards and experiences
About the Company
- Sky is a leading media and entertainment company that connects millions with entertainment, sports, news, and arts through innovative products and services.
- Working with Sky means bringing the joy of a better experience to more people, every day, to do better and deliver better for customers, colleagues, and society.
Equal Opportunity
- Sky is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity at the company.
- Sky is a Disability Confident Accredited Employer, and welcomes and encourages applications from all candidates.
- Sky will look to ensure a fair and consistent experience for all and will make reasonable adjustments to support candidates where appropriate.
- If your application is successful, Sky will ask you to complete a criminal record check. Depending on the role and the nature of any convictions, an offer may be withdrawn.
- Please flag any adjustments you need as early as you can.