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Yorkshire Water Graduate Scheme – Graduate Risk and Compliance Graduate

 

 

 


Salary & Benefits

 


Starting salary: £32,000, rising to £37,000 by end of year 2 


Extras: £2,000 signing bonus, annual bonus, 25 days holiday + bank holidays + wellness day 


Pension: Up to 12% company contribution 


Life assurance: 4x pensionable salary 


Permanant substantive role offer upon completion of programme subject to performance 


Flexible Benefits Package 


Includes health cash plan, critical illness and dental insurance, life assurance flex (with partner cover), retail discounts, online GP access, cycle-to-work scheme, gym membership savings, and more. 

 

 


Location: West Yorkshire with requirement for flexible travel across Yorkshire & Humber. 

 


Work type  37 hours per week between a working window of 8:00am-6:00pm Monday – Friday 

 

 


Why Yorkshire Water? 

 


Yorkshire Water delivers essential water and wastewater services to over 5.4 million people. But we’re more than taps and toilets—we protect the environment, support communities, and help shape Yorkshire’s future. 


From tackling climate change to planning for droughts and floods, we’re solving some of the biggest challenges facing our region and we need talented graduates to help us do it. 

 

 


Your Graduate Programme 

 


Our two-year programme offers you five placements across your allocated business area, complemented by a choice of placements to suit your personal development needs in core functions such as Finance, Health & Safety, People, and Procurement, enabling you to have a balanced understanding of the business. You’ll gain hands-on experience, technical and leadership training, and support from mentors, managers, graduate alumni, and our Early in Careers team to support you from the day you make the decision to join us. 


By the end of the scheme, you’ll be ready to step into a permanent role and make a lasting impact. 

 

 


Your Team 

 


Our Audit, Risk & Compliance team aim to protect and enhance Yorkshire Waters long term resilience and compliance. We act as trusted advisors to the business, to protect, enhance, and deliver value by helping the business to do the right thing. 


Our whole team covers a range of disciplines including Internal Audit, Risk Management, Insurance, Compliance and Assurance. Across the disciplines we  engage with a range of functions and stakeholders across Yorkshire Water.  


We help the business to identify and assess the range of compliance obligations and risk’s that we need to manage. We also provide independent assurance to help the business to learn and do the right thing. All of this is really important in assisting our leaders and board members in their roles of leadership,  oversight and challenge. In a regulated industry, and with a huge responsibility to our customers and the environment, there’s a lot to do. 


We’re looking for Graduates with a desire to specialise across Risk and Compliance, and we have an ambitious agenda to enhance and improve our risk and control environment that you can contribute to. 

 

 


Your Role: 

 


As a Risk & Compliance Graduate, you will 

 


Join our Risk & Compliance teams to support programmes that strengthen our risk and control environment, such as improving risk registers, enhancing risk management frameworks, or advancing compliance and assurance initiatives. 


Support the identification, evaluation, and ongoing management of risks—both emerging and existing—on the corporate risk register. 


Support facilitation of risk management workshops and training sessions, embedding best practices throughout the organisation. 


Review and test the effectiveness of controls, identifying gaps and recommending improvements to reduce risk exposure. 


Help maintain the Compliance Database to ensure regulatory standards are met. 


Support review of our Principal Risk and our Risk Appetite positions, with benchmarking and insight and consideration of corporate strategy, to help the team to provide effective risk advice and update to leaders. 


Ensure that risk information is accurately reflected in business reports and dashboards and assist in preparing compliance assessments and reports for senior leadership and the Board. 
Assist with the group insurance programme administration and recommendations; balancing risk insight together with risk treatment options for consideration. 

 

 


What you’ll need to be successful: 

 


A minimum 2:1 Bachelor’s degree.  


Enthusiasm, curiosity, and a drive to succeed. 


A willingness to learn and adapt in a fast-changing industry. 


UK Driving Licence and access to own vehicle 


Excellent communication skills; able to engage with colleagues at every level, able to translate complex technical terms into easy to understand explanations, ability to summarise for senior leaders and board level reports, and an ability to draw out risks, controls and actions from the knowledge of others 

 

 


Key Dates 


Assessment Centres: 17th November 2025 –5th December 2025 


Start date: 14th September 2026 

 


We’re proud to serve Yorkshire and are committed to building a diverse, inclusive workforce that reflects our communities. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds. 

 


Successful candidates will undergo pre-employment checks, including a Basic Disclosure via a third-party provider. Some roles may also require Counter Terrorist or Security Check clearance. 

 


Kelda Group reserve the right to close applications early, so we recommend applying as soon as possible

What's in it for you?

Career enhancement and development, colleague well-being and a genuinely positive work experience for all are key priorities. We are continuously evolving and improving our ways of working and you will support us in achieving our vision of 'taking responsibility for the water environment for good'.

If you feel this opportunity is suitable and you match the skills required, then please apply on line and complete the application process.

Kelda Group reserve the right to close this position before the published closing date, should the need occur. We therefore advise that you complete and submit your application as soon as possible.

The Kelda Group provides water and sewerage services to domestic and business customers across the UK, managing the following subsidiary companies: - 

Yorkshire Water, is the main subsidiary company providing water and sewerage services to 4.7 million people and 130,000 businesses in the Yorkshire region. Its activities are regulated by the Water Services Regulation Authority, Ofwat Loop Customer Management Ltd specialises in delivering customer service support to Yorkshire Water that includes billing, debt recovery and incident management. Employing more than 600 people, Loop have built up an impressive list of industry awards and achievements since being created in 2000 and is currently listed in the Sunday Times Top 100 list as being one of the best companies to work for.

Kelda Water Services (KWS) manages Kelda's non-regulated water and waste water contract operations. It is now the second biggest player in the UK market for outsourced clean and waste water services.

Kelda Water Services Retail offer quality, integrity and partnership but it is never just about the technologies behind our solutions in water. It is about the structure, delivery and even the financing of those solutions, and about giving our customers a level of convenience they never knew was possible.

KeyLand Developments Limited (KeyLand Developments) is responsible for managing, developing and disposing of the group's surplus property assets, either on its own or in partnership with outside organisations.

Kelda Group values equality, diversity and inclusion we believe that everyone should be treated with respect. We welcome applications from all individuals, regardless of gender, marital status, parental status, sexual orientation, race, colour, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, religion or belief and trade union membership.

Kelda Group reserve the right to close this position before the published closing date, should the need occur. We therefore advise that you complete and submit your application as soon as possible.

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