Assistant Risk & Assurance Manager

Department: Assistant Risk & Assurance Manager
Location: Soho, London (Hybrid – minimum 3 days in office)
 

About the Team

PPL’s Finance team manages the planning, organising, auditing and accounting for the company’s finances. They are responsible for all incoming and outgoing payments, including making over 150,000 payments to performers and recording rightsholders annually.

What you’ll be doing:

The Assistant Risk & Assurance Manager will play a key role in delivering the organisation’s internal audit and assurance activities and driving a more risk aware culture across the organisation. The role will support the Senior Risk & Assurance Manager in delivering the annual audit plan and strengthening the risk and control environment, while taking end‑to‑end responsibility for individual audit assignments and providing pragmatic, independent assurance and advisory support to the business

Key Responsibilities:

• Take end‑to‑end ownership of allocated internal audit assignments, from scoping through to reporting and follow‑up.
• Develop risk‑based audit scoping documents, identifying key risks, controls and areas of focus.
• Design and perform audit testing, including controls design and operating effectiveness testing, using appropriate sampling and testing methodologies.
• Identify control weaknesses, root causes and practical, proportionate improvement actions.
• Deliver regular controls testing across key financial and operational processes by assessing the design and operating effectiveness of key controls, identifying gaps, deficiencies and control failures.
• Support the continuous improvement of controls testing methodologies, templates and approaches.
• Track and follow up management actions arising from controls testing, escalating concerns where remediation is delayed or insufficient.
• Support the enhancement of the risk management framework, providing challenge and insight informed by audit and controls testing results.
• Contribute to the maintenance and quality of the corporate and departmental risk registers, ensuring risks and controls are clearly articulated and aligned.
• Identify and communicate themes, trends and emerging risks arising from audit and controls testing activity.
• Provide independent and pragmatic advice on control design for new processes, system changes and projects.
• Act as a trusted advisor and business partner to stakeholders, supporting strong delivery while ensuring appropriate risk assessment and control implementation is being carried out.
• Produce high‑quality internal audit and controls testing reports that clearly articulate findings, impacts and recommendations.
• Present findings to senior stakeholders, facilitating constructive discussion and agreement of actions.
• Support with regular senior management and external Finance and Audit Committee reporting as well as presenting on findings as required.
• Coach and support the Risk & Assurance Analyst on assurance techniques, documentation standards and judgement.
• Contribute to strengthening risk awareness and capability across the organisation through guidance and constructive challenge of key stakeholders, including the Risk Champions.

Key Requirements:

• Solid experience delivering internal audits (end‑to‑end, including scoping, testing, reporting and action tracking) and controls testing within a complex organisation.
• Demonstrable experience assessing controls design and operating effectiveness.
• Experience producing clear assurance conclusions and recommendations based on testing evidence.
• Experience engaging with senior stakeholders and providing constructive challenge.
• Strong technical auditing skills with the ability to apply judgement pragmatically.
• Excellent analytical skills with the ability to identify root causes and meaningful improvements.
• Strong written communication skills, with experience producing high‑quality reports.
• Confident verbal communication and presentation skills with senior stakeholders.
• Ability to manage multiple assignments and deliver work to agreed timelines.

Why work at PPL?

When you join us at PPL, you’ll become part of a community united by a love for music and a mission to make a difference, by championing music rights. Some key perks include:

• Hybrid working and Flexible working hours
• Work from anywhere in the world for up to 2 weeks per year
• Early finishes on Fridays in the summer months
• Private medical insurance, life assurance and health cash plan
• Annual allowance to claim back funds spent your favourite music activity
• Free healthy breakfasts and fresh fruit every day
• Exclusive retail and gym discounts to boost your wellbeing
• Season ticket loans
• Regular socials and music industry related events
• Annual bonus (non-contractual)

Equity, Diversity and Inclusivity at PPL:

At PPL, we believe in fairness and in creating a work environment that respects all lived experiences. We are proud to represent musicians and performers from every section of society and are committed to cultivating a workplace where feel welcome and happy in a safe and trusted space.