IT Risk and Compliance Manager EMEA - Contract role 3 months

at  WPP

WPP is the creative transformation company. We use the power of creativity to build better futures for our people, planet, clients, and communities.

• Be a key liaison with the markets to assist in timely completion of audits (internal, external or client), providing support and guidance as required
• Provide up to date reporting of audit status to Risk and Compliance Lead
• Play a key role in monitoring audit deficiencies - from challenging the validity of deficiencies in audit close meetings, to supporting markets in developing remediation plans
• Review remediation documentation to ensure plan has been implemented correctly
• Identify appropriate mitigating controls for audit deficiencies, considering both controls on the IT and financial framework which adequately addresses the risk identified
• Perform detailed walkthroughs of automated controls, to review system configuration and ensure risk associated to the control has been addressed
• Support the Risk & Compliance Lead in developing technology risk awareness and education activities to ensure controls knowledge uplift across the Archetype
• Be a point of contact for technology risk and compliance questions, advice, and support
• Establish a risk community across the range of businesses to pro-actively manage existing risk, and implement approaches to minimise future risk