IT Compliance Lead

Overview

We’re Kingfisher, A team made up of over 76,000 passionate people who bring Kingfisher - and all our other brands: B&Q, Screwfix, Brico Depot, Castorama and Koctas - to life. That’s right, we’re big, but we have ambitions to become even bigger and even better. We want to become the leading home improvement company and grow the largest community of home improvers in the world. And that’s where you come in.

At Kingfisher our customers come from all walks of life, and so do we. We want to ensure that all colleagues, future colleagues, and applicants to Kingfisher are treated equally regardless of age, gender, marital or civil partnership status, colour, ethnic or national origin, culture, religious belief, philosophical belief, political opinion, disability, gender identity, gender expression or sexual orientation. You will be managing Kingfisher’s IT infrastructure, ensuring performance through expertise in systems, virtualization, scripting, networking, storage, and security.

The Compliance Lead will support the Senior IT & Security Compliance Manager in ensuring Kingfishers technology estate is compliant with all applicable laws and regulations and this compliance can be clearly demonstrated to regulators and auditors. Working in the Information Security & Risk team you will maintain, develop and implement a compliance program and the associated processes and evidential documentation. Ensuring Group/Local Banner technology teams and suppliers understand and maintain operational compliance to regulations.

What's the job?

• Maintain and improve the Controls framework providing a view of effectiveness, and driving a programme of continuous improvement
• Collaborate with and assist Banners and technology teams to develop corrective action plans for identified compliance issues.
• Ability to convey sophisticated information and ideas clearly to stakeholders and embed policy, processes and controls that maintain compliance
• Develop and provide recommendations towards reporting packs for all aspects of the compliance landscape.
• Provide SME consultancy to both Group Technology and the Banners / Group Functions on key topics such as data protection and payments.
• Operate a data protection office for Group Technology including leading data maps, DPIA’s and SARs
• Run both internal and external audit activities including the support of audit planning, audit facilitation, recommendations to findings and resulting action plans

What you'll bring

• Maintain and improve the Controls framework providing a view of effectiveness, and driving a programme of continuous improvement
• Collaborate with and assist Banners and technology teams to develop corrective action plans for identified compliance issues.
• Ability to convey sophisticated information and ideas clearly to stakeholders and embed policy, processes and controls that maintain compliance
• Develop and provide recommendations towards reporting packs for all aspects of the compliance landscape.
• Provide SME consultancy to both Group Technology and the Banners / Group Functions on key topics such as data protection and payments.
• Operate a data protection office for Group Technology including leading data maps, DPIA’s and SARs
• Run both internal and external audit activities including the support of audit planning, audit facilitation, recommendations to findings and resulting action plans