About the Role
Join Oxford University Press as a Senior Compliance Manager and play a pivotal role in delivering and evolving our Global Compliance Programme across a truly international organisation. Working closely with the Group Compliance Officer, you will help ensure that key compliance risks, including bribery and corruption, fraud, the facilitation of tax evasion, and sanctions, are effectively identified, managed, and mitigated. This is an exciting opportunity to influence organisational culture, strengthen ethical decision-making, and support the Press’s commitment to operating with integrity across all areas of the business.
In this highly collaborative role, you will partner with senior stakeholders across divisions and group functions to embed compliance policies and processes, drive engagement with training and awareness initiatives, and support a strong culture of accountability. You will manage compliance professionals based in the UK and/or overseas. You will oversee risk assessments and due diligence activities relating to third parties and high-risk business activities, ensuring that appropriate controls are in place and remain effective. You will also contribute to compliance reporting, monitoring and assurance activities, helping to provide clear insight into programme effectiveness and emerging risk areas.
The successful candidate will be an experienced compliance professional with excellent stakeholder management skills and a pragmatic, solutions-focused approach. You will be comfortable managing people, advising colleagues at all levels, balancing regulatory requirements with business needs, and communicating complex issues in a clear and engaging way. In return, you will have the opportunity to make a meaningful impact within a globally respected organisation, helping to protect and enhance the reputation of one of the world's leading academic and educational publishers.
We operate a hybrid working policy that requires a minimum of 2 days per week in the Oxford office.
About You
Essential:
Appropriate professional qualification in compliance, risk, law, accounting or a related field.
Breadth and depth of understanding of Global Compliance programmes and principles.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with strong organization and presentation abilities.
People management experience.
High ethical standards, sound judgment, and a robust understanding of the business.
Pro-active decision-making skills with the ability to identify key issues/risks within business activities and to take the initiative to solve them pro-actively through developing adequate procedures.
Excellent advocacy and influencing skills, able to engage stakeholders at all levels.
Ability to work effectively as part of a Global Compliance team, and engage with stakeholders at all levels of the organisation
Willingness to travel.
Desirable:
Strong awareness of the UK Bribery Act, Criminal Finances Act and failure to prevent fraud requirements under the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act, and the requirements of the key sanctions regimes).
Relevant experience in multinational organisation.
Benefits
We care about work/life balance here at OUP. With this in mind we offer 25 days’ holiday that rises with service, plus bank holidays and Christmas closure (3-days) and a 35-hour working week. We are open to discussing flexibility in respect to working patterns, dependent on role. We also have a great variety of active employee networks and societies.
We help make your money go further by contributing to your pension up to 12%, offering loans and savings schemes through our partnership with Salary Finance, in addition to travel to work schemes and access to a wide range of local discounts.
This role comes with the added benefit of private medical insurance and a management bonus.
Please see our Rewards and Recognition page for more information.
Queries
Please contact
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We are committed to supporting diversity in our workforce, and ensuring an inclusive environment where all individuals can thrive. We seek to employ a workforce representative of the markets that we serve and encourage applications from all.
