At Linnaeus, we truly value our Associates and if you are thinking of moving on from your current role or looking to challenge yourself in a new opportunity, we would love to be able to see what we may have for you within the family, so don't hesitate to reach out.

We are proud to be able to share with you the endless possibilities for internal transfers across Linnaeus and associated groups within the Mars family such as Antech and Anicura.
 
All applications are handled with confidentiality.

Your role and responsibilities

Reporting to the Internal Controls and Governance Manager, you will play a vital role in the continual development of the risk and controls environment at Linnaeus.

Your role will involve:

• Performing risk-based assessments of internal controls
• Designing and embedding controls to mitigate risks and improve process efficiency and effectiveness
• Ensuring adherence to the group-wide controls framework
• Ensuring adherence to key external laws and regulations, including Corporate Criminal Offences Act.

Key responsibilities:

• Ensuring compliance with Mars Internal Controls Excellence (ICE) framework
  • Assisting the business with closing any controls gaps
  • Completing Internal Controls reviews within Central Support and at our hospitals and practices
  • Following up recommendations to ensure control deficiencies are remediated.
• Supporting and education all levels of the business on the importance of risks and controls
• Supporting the development of new policies and procedures
• Maintaining (and creating as needed) control documentation including process flowcharts, and risks and control matrices
• Reviewing compliance with policies
• Performing assessments against specific external regulations
• Following up of External and Internal Audit recommendations

Benefits

• 5 weeks holiday + bank holidays + Birthday Leave
• Career progression opportunities
• Staff discount schemes
• Life Assurance
• Enhanced sickness pay
• Enhanced equal family leave
• E-car salary sacrifice scheme
• Employer contribution pension scheme  
• Wellness program including:
  • Employee assistance program
  • Eyecare voucher scheme
  • Free annual Flu jab
  • Cycle to work scheme
• Recruitment referral reward scheme

About us

Linnaeus is a forward-thinking partnership of highly respected primary care and referral veterinary practices across the UK and Ireland, comprising some of the best veterinary professionals in the industry.

We are all individual but two important things bring us together; a commitment to excellence in everything we do and our passion to make A BETTER WORLD FOR PETS.

At Linnaeus we carefully select the practices we partner with to ensure the highest levels of patient care across our group. Together we provide a growing community of like-minded veterinary professionals who are passionate about what they do. We work with different types of practices, in every field of veterinary medicine, including small animal, farm and equine.

We also have our Five Principles which form the foundation of how we do business today and every day and we put these at the centre of every decision we make.  This means:

• We are committed to Quality of work and contributions to society. 
• We embrace our Responsibility (as individuals and a company) to act now. 
• We base decisions on Mutuality of benefit to our stakeholders. 
• We harness the power of Efficiency to use our resources to maximum effect. 
• We have the financial Freedom to make our own decisions, unrestricted by motivations of others.

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At Linnaeus, we are committed to supporting the physical and mental health of all our Associates. We have an amazing team of Mental Health First Aiders (MHFA) across our practices and central support office in addition to a confidential Employee Assistance Programme which is available for everyone.

Please click 'APPLY' to register your interest in this role, alternatively, if you wish to discuss the internal transfer process in more depth before applying, please contact your internal Talent Acquisition Team at [email protected]