Risk and Assurance Manager

Title: Risk and Assurance Manager

Contract Type: Permanent, Full-Time, 35 hours

Salary: £66,000 per annum to £72,500 per annum (London weighted salary) or £58,000 per annum to £64,500 per annum (Regional salary), dependant on experience

Grade: 11

Reporting Office: London, Stratford or Manchester, Trafford

Persona: Agile Worker: 20% - 40% of contractual hours to be worked from reporting office/working location (hybrid working)

Closing Date: 26th April 2026

Interview Dates: 1st stage interview will take place virtually on 1st May 2026 and 2nd stage will take place in-person on 11th May 2026.

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Benefits include: Excellent pension plan (up to 6% double contribution), 28 days Annual Leave rising to 31 days with length of service + Bank Holidays, Westfield Health Cash Plan, non-contributory life assurance, up to 21 hours volunteering paid days, lifestyle benefits, Employee Assistance Programme and many more…

Early applications are encouraged as we reserve the right to close the advertisement and interview earlier than stated.

Join our Risk and Assurance Team at L&Q:

This role will provide a great opportunity to help embed and strengthen risk management and assurance across a large organisation, enabling better decision making and helping us deliver reliable, repeatable and consistent services for our residents.

You will help shape and mature our new group wide approach to risk and assurance. You’ll lead efforts to get buy-in from across the business and make sure the approach is rolled out effectively. Drawing on your knowledge, including of the sector, along with internal and external data and best practice, you will help shape and continuously improve how L&Q manages risk, controls and assurance.

You will report to the Head of Risk and Assurance and work with another Risk and Assurance Manager and a Risk Analyst. This small team sits within a larger Transformation and Change team who lead on the Group’s large Transformation portfolio – central to the delivery of our new 5 year corporate strategy.

If this sounds like you, we would love for you to apply!

Your impact in the role:

Main duties:

• You’ll support the maturing of the Groupwide approach to risk, controls and assurance.
• You’ll lead efforts to get buy-in from across the business and make sure the approach is rolled out and followed effectively.
• You’ll ensure our reporting is data driven and clearly presented, communicating effectively through L&Q’s governance structures.
• You’ll help deliver a second line assurance programme, working with risk and control owners to review how well controls are working and advising on how to improve or simplify them.
• You’ll use your knowledge and insights to help set risk appetite at a strategic level and guide the business on how to apply it in day-to-day decision-making.
• You’ll also lead on embedding and continuously improving our groupwide approach to critical incident and business continuity management.

Key relationships:

• You’ll be part of a small central team that supports the business in understanding its risks, how well current controls are working, and identifying ways to improve them. You’ll work closely with leaders and teams across the Group to help them understand the risks in their accountable areas, and develop practical, effective ways to manage them.

How will you help achieve departmental targets and goals:

• You’ll help us ensure we meet targets to increase compliance with our risk and assurance framework – consistent expression of risks, strong controls and assurance. You’ll help us reach the target that every area demonstrates routine self assessment of their control effectiveness and contribute to providing the second line of assurance, working closely with the third line, internal audit.

What you'll bring:

• Technical expertise in risk management and assurance.
• Experience of risk management and assurance across a large organisation.
• You analytical and problem-solving skills and mindset.
• Strong ability to build strong relationships and network with colleagues, leading, motivating and delivering through others to achieve successful outcomes.
• Brilliant communication skills, able to express complex concepts in an easy to consume manner.

If you require any reasonable adjustments at any stage during this process, including application stage, please email lqcareers@lqgroup.org.uk

About L&Q:

We’re one of the UK’s leading housing associations and developers. We were founded on a simple belief: high quality housing is vital for people’s health, happiness and security. Everyone deserves a quality home that gives them the chance to live a better life.

250,000 people call our properties ‘home’, and we’re proud to serve diverse communities across London, the South East and North West of England.

People are at the heart of our business and our success depends on employing the best people and getting the best from them. The foundation of everything that we are is built on our corporate values and behavioural framework, which outlines our core expectations and should be demonstrated at all times, and all levels, when representing L&Q.

At L&Q, we know that diversity and inclusion make us stronger – and they’re at the heart of everything we do.

When we recruit, we look at what really matters: your skills, experience, and potential. We’re proud to be recognised for creating an inclusive workplace. We’re a Disability Confident Leader (Level 3) and we’ve introduced our own Recruitment Advocate scheme to make sure every step of our hiring process is fair, transparent, and consistent. It’s all part of our commitment to ending discrimination and making L&Q a place where everyone feels welcome. Find out more here.

Sustainability is also at the heart of what we do. We recognise the responsibility we hold as one of the UK’s largest housing associations.

Click here to find out more about L&Q and why you should join us!