Audit & Risk Manager

Join Our Team as an Audit and Risk Manager
Location: Remote

Details: Permanent, Full-time, 35 hours per week

The Business Improvement & Technology directorate was formed in January 2026, bringing together Technology & Business Systems with Compliance, Quality, Audit and PMO. This new directorate has an exciting purpose to drive real, meaningful change across the organisation. It will play a key role in improving how we work, maintaining compliance, shaping and strengthening our technology, systems, and data to deliver quality services, demonstrate our impact and enable strategic planning & delivery.

The Assurance and Compliance function leads health and safety, risk, and compliance at Rethink. It provides expert advice, supports the Executive Team in managing strategic risks, reports to governance bodies, and oversees audits and improvement actions to ensure continuous improvement.

Role Overview:

Join our Business Improvement and Technology Directorate, where you’ll help drive smarter ways of working and support Rethink’s digital growth. In this role, you’ll play a key part in our audit and risk management framework, identifying control gaps, improving processes, and helping the organisation run more effectively. You’ll work closely with senior leaders, giving you great exposure and the opportunity to make a real impact.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Lead Rethink’s audit and risk activity, ensuring focus on key strategic risks and high-quality delivery
• Manage the full internal audit cycle, from planning and fieldwork through to reporting and follow-up
• Identify control gaps, inefficiencies, and opportunities to improve processes and ways of working
• Develop clear, practical recommendations to strengthen internal controls
• Oversee the risk management framework, including the corporate and directorate risk registers
• Support senior leaders to manage risk effectively and improve organisational performance
• Monitor compliance with regulatory requirements and industry best practice
• Produce clear, insightful reports for the Executive Team and Audit & Assurance Committee
• Strengthen organisational assurance, improve risk visibility, and support better decision-making across Rethink

What we’re looking for:

• Proven experience in audit, risk management or compliance
• Professional qualifications such as Certified Internal Auditor (CIA), Associate Chartered Accountant (ACA), Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA)
• A strong understanding of internal control frameworks, e.g. ISO 31000
• Excellent analytical skills with the ability to translate complex data into actionable insights
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage and influence stakeholders at all levels
• A proactive mindset with the confidence to challenge the status quo
• Proficient IT skills in Microsoft applications

We look forward to receiving your application!

Why Work With Rethink Mental Illness?

At Rethink Mental Illness, we believe that when you feel supported, you can make the biggest difference. That’s why we offer a range of benefits to help you thrive:

• Inclusive Culture: Join staff networks that champion diversity and inclusion.
• Wellbeing Support: Access our Wellbeing Hub, Employee Assistance Programme, and the Unmind mental health app.
• Recognition & Rewards: Enjoy discounts, cashback offers, and celebrate achievements through our PULSE platform.
• Flexible Working & Generous Leave: Starting at 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays and your birthday off), with options to buy or sell extra days.
• Learning & Development: Grow your career with structured onboarding and training opportunities.
• Financial & Family Support: Contributory pension scheme, enhanced family leave, and travel benefits like season ticket loans and cycle-to-work schemes.
• Referral Bonus: Earn up to £300 for introducing someone to our team.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion 

Diversity is important to us, and we appreciate difference through difference, inclusiveness and belonging. It gives us a deeper understanding of the world, our society and the diverse communities we’re working with. By including everyone, we are able to draw on the unique experiences and expertise of our people to help shape and enrich our workplace and improve our services. One way we are doing is through our valued staff networks which play a critical and highly valued role in keeping us focused on creating a diverse, inclusive and engaged employer.  We recognise and support staff networks and support groups for our ethnically diverse and LGBTQIA+ colleagues. We are also proud to have been awarded Disability Confident Employer status and are a signatory to the Business in the Community Race at Work Charter. 

We aim for our workforce to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve; for those who work for us to feel heard, valued and feel they belong; and for our work to help tackle wider mental health inequalities. We therefore actively encourage and welcome applications from everyone, including applicants with lived experience of mental illness, those who are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer or Questioning, Intersex, Asexual and any other gender identity not expressed here (LGBTQIA+); people who are neurodiverse, have a health condition, or a disability or hidden disability and people from an ethnically diverse background - regardless of your age, religious or spiritual belief, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, political view or socio-economic status.

Becoming a truly anti-racist organisation 

We have an ambition of become a truly anti-racist employer, campaigning organisation and service provider - and in our efforts to influence policy and wider societal factors impacting on mental health set out in our anti-racist statement . We have designed a multi-year anti-racist programme of work contained in our Race Equality Action Plan which demonstrates our intention to hold ourselves accountable and be judged on our progress on becoming a truly anti-racist organisation.