Job description

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As part of our Strategy, Risk & Transactions Advisory business, we are significantly investing in the growth of our Ethics & Regulatory Compliance (E&RC) team. We empower organisations to navigate the full spectrum of regulatory demands and ethical expectations, fostering truly responsible business practices. This includes critical areas such as Anti-Bribery & Corruption, Data Privacy, Human Rights, Competition, and the rapidly evolving landscape of Digital Regulation (including online safety, artificial intelligence and consumer protection).

Deloitte's E&RC team is formed of a multi-disciplinary team that includes governance, risk and compliance specialists, non-practicing lawyers, technologists, trust & safety and policy experts working across the areas of digital compliance and broader corporate compliance, working in collaboration with specialist teams across Deloitte. We are helping some of the world's leading brands navigate the challenges of regulatory change by delivering premium advisory services with our services spanning compliance operating model design and implementation, regulatory risk assessments, and monitoring & reporting, with deep regulation specific subject matter expertise.

We establish frameworks, capabilities, and technology, making a tangible impact by improving the rights of billions of digital users and ensuring ethical conduct across all industries. Our team has extensive experience in delivering E&RC projects for organisations across a variety of different industries around the world, as well as providing insights, thought leadership and regular contact with our global network.

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Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients' become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.

What brings us all together at Deloitte? It's how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way , serve with integrity , take care of each other , foster inclusion , and collaborate for measurable impact . These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most .

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We are expanding our Ethics & Regulatory Compliance (E&RC) team and seek motivated, collaborative individuals with a strong understanding of risk, compliance, ethics, governance, and assurance. You will be part of team providing compliance and regulatory advisory solutions and advice, building trusted client relationships across diverse industries.

This role suits candidates with proven professional experience (ideally with a professional services or industry governance, risk and compliance industry role) and with a desire to help companies establish practical processes for regulatory compliance and build customer trust. You will support clients, including some of the world's largest and most complex organisations, across the full regulatory lifecycle - from operating model design and risk mitigation to audit preparation.

You will help clients identify challenges and provide solutions through advisory, process, capability, and technology improvements. You will have the opportunity to be involved in projects such as:

• Reviewing and assessing the current state of compliance across the organisation and recommending practical enhancements.
• Designing and implementing enterprise-level governance, risk, and compliance frameworks.
• Performing regulatory risk assessments, including anti-bribery & corruption, online safety and broader compliance topics.
• Designing and documenting regulatory controls and preparing for independent audits (e.g., ISAE3000).
• Establishing specific content compliance and trust & safety processes (e.g., minor/vulnerable user safety, fundamental rights, deepfakes).
• Advising on specific regulatory domains such as anti-bribery & corruption, whistleblowing, fraud and digital regulation
• You must possess excellent communication skills, with experience presenting to senior stakeholders, and be a strong team player capable of assimilating issues across industries, with potential for leadership. Our engagements demand pragmatic approaches, grounded in a solid understanding of ethics and regulatory compliance, to provide sound advice and minimise client risks effectively.

Working across multiple industries, you will need to work with clients to help them identify challenges with their existing risk and compliance capabilities and help provide solutions via a combination of advisory, process, capability and/or technology improvements.

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Essential

Governance, risk and controls exposure:

• Experience supporting the design, implementation or assessment of governance, risk and control frameworks, or an understanding of how these frameworks support operational processes, regulatory compliance and assurance in organisations.

Regulatory interpretation and application:

• Basic understanding of regulatory or compliance requirements, with some experience supporting their translation into policies, processes, controls or monitoring activities.

Practical compliance approach:

• Ability to identify and assess compliance risks, support the evaluation of control effectiveness and contribute to the development of pragmatic, proportionate solutions.

Regulatory or compliance domain exposure:

• Experience working in or supporting projects across one or more regulatory or compliance domains such as anti-bribery & corruption, financial crime, privacy, consumer protection or digital regulation.

Delivery, problem solving and workstream contribution:

• Experience contributing to project delivery, managing your own priorities and producing high-quality outputs to agreed timelines, with strong problem-solving skills to support the development of client solutions.

Stakeholder communication:

• Good communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain ideas, contribute to discussions and support engagement with business, risk, legal or compliance stakeholders.

Adaptability and approach:

• Highly adaptable, able to assimilate new regulatory topics and work across diverse industries and project types, with a willingness to learn and respond to evolving client priorities.

Teamwork and proactivity:

• Proactive and collaborative team player, able to work effectively in a global, diverse and agile team environment with an inclusive working style.

Flexibility:

• Openness to travel to client sites and/or flexible working hours as required.
• Assistant Manager - Desirable

Regulatory interpretation capability:

• Experience or demonstrable exposure to interpreting regulatory or compliance requirements and applying them in a business or project context.

R egulatory risk and control exposure:

• Exposure to supporting regulatory risk assessments, control testing or control design activities across one or more compliance domains.

Controls and assurance awareness:

• Understanding of how controls are documented and how organisations prepare for assurance or audit processes (e.g. ISAE3000 or similar frameworks).

Engagement exposure:

• Exposure to core engagement management processes (e.g. working to budgets, tracking deliverables or supporting proposal and client delivery processes).

Digital and technology awareness:

• Interest in digital technologies and their impact on regulatory compliance, including areas such as online safety, AI or data-driven business models.

Regulatory knowledge (including flagship regimes):

• Working knowledge or awareness of regulatory frameworks relevant to our clients, including flagship digital regulations such as the EU Digital Services Act, EU AI Act and UK Online Safety Act, alongside broader corporate compliance areas (e.g. Competition, Anti-Bribery & Corruption, Anti-Money Laundering, Privacy, Modern Slavery, Human Rights and Whistleblowing).

Connect to your business - Strategy, Risk & Transactions Advisory

In an ever-evolving world, there are no certainties in business. Our teams help clients to navigate risks, process major transactions and deliver transformational change that will future-proof their business. Join us to make a positive difference.

Regulatory & Financial Risk

We provide advisory services across the risk and regulatory landscape to help our clients move beyond simply meeting the minimum compliance standards, to strategically creating a responsible, sustainable future. This includes providing critical insight and advice on the future of regulation to assist our clients in anticipating change and responding with confidence.

Personal independence

Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process or you can contact the Independence team upon request.

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"For me it's the people that make it. They are bright, supportive, interesting; we work brilliantly together as a team. But it's not just that, the number of opportunities you get working for such a large firm is amazing." - Jess, Strategy, Risk & Transactions Advisory

"What I personally find so exciting is that we have the freedom to affect massive change." - Christian, Strategy, Risk & Transactions Advisory

Our hybrid working policy

You'll be based in London or Manchester hybrid working.

At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That's why we'll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you'll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely. You'll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Please check with your recruiter for the specific working requirements that may apply for your role.

Our commitment to you

Making an impact is more than just what we do: it's why we're here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.

We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we're nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we'll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it's only when you're comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.

Your expertise is our capability, so we'll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it's from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you'll learn every day. Through world-class development, you'll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you'll learn how to lead.

Connect to your next step

A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you'll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You'll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you'll never stop growing, whatever your level.

Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers

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