Head of Risk

1 month ago


Potters Bar, United Kingdom Irish Life Full time

**Location**:Potters Bar, GB**Company**:CLFIS Limited**Description**:
**Please note this position is being recruited under the SMCR regime.**

**This position can be located either within our London (City) or Hertfordshire (Potters Bar) Office.**
- Canada Life UK looks after the retirement, investment and protection needs of individuals, families and companies. We help to build better futures for our customers, our intermediaries and our employees by operating as a modern, agile and welcoming organisation.- Part of our parent company Great-West Lifeco, Canada Life UK has operated in the United Kingdom since 1903. We have hundreds of respected and supported employees committed to doing the right thing for our customers and colleagues.- Canada Life UK is transforming to create a more customer-focused business by providing our customers with expertise on financial and tax planning, offering home finance and annuities propositions, and providing collective fund solutions to third party customers.**Job purpose**:

- A direct report of the Chief Risk Officer (CRO) and a key leader across Canada Life UK (CLUK) and in the Risk & Compliance function.
- This role is responsible for the oversight of non-financial risk across CLUK, advising the CRO and Director of Compliance on these risks, including drivers of regulatory compliance risk.
- This role provides key support to the CRO in ensuring that there is appropriate risk management across the business aligning strategy, risk appetite, and guaranteeing good customer outcomes. The role holder will encourage, advocate and lead an appropriate risk culture across CLUK to meet the needs of the full range of stakeholders (including Board, executive, Lifeco group and regulators).
- This role is primarily responsible for the oversight of non-financial risks in all our operations, people and legal functions, including change programmes, and acts as the Risk and Compliance partner for those functions covering the full CLUK risk universe. Working across the Risk & Compliance function, it shares insight with other risk and compliance business partners contributing to the oversight of non-financial risk in insurance, investment, and wealth functions. A key relationship for this role is with the Head of Compliance Effectiveness & Oversight to whom it will provide conclusions from non-financial risk oversight for consideration as drivers of conduct, customer, and regulatory compliance risk. To align with the embedding of customer focus and consumer outcomes as part of CLUK’s strategy, this role provides a balanced combination of risk and compliance oversight across CLUK.
- The role holder will lead a team of operational specialists focusing on operations, customer risk and IT (including cloud technologies).
- This role will hold regulatory responsibility for risk and compliance functions within Canada Life Platform Ltd. The role holds a dotted reporting line to the Director of Compliance to support the exercising of the CLUK compliance mandate and development of compliance opinion.

**Duties**:
**1) Risk and Compliance Leadership Team**
- Member of the Risk and Compliance leadership team supporting the CRO in leading the Risk and Compliance function, the engagement with the full range of stakeholders, including regulators, and in providing excellent quality appropriate and relevant reporting to the Executive and CLUK boards and committees.**2) People Leadership**
- Recruit, motivate and manage direct reports in line with our corporate values, and ensure similar from them for their teams, in the achievement of the business and individual objectives, including the provision of operational, regulatory and technical risk guidance. This specifically includes leading a team of Risk and Compliance business partners focused on operations and IT, including cloud, people and customer.**3) Risk Management Framework**
- Champion the three lines of defence model for risk management across Operations, People and Legal functions.- Ensure the implementation of the Great West Life ERM framework across the relevant divisions overseeing compliance with relevant regulations and that they meet the wider expectation of regulators, and follow good practice relative to peer companies. This will include implementation, embedding and maintenance of:
- Risk strategy, consistent with the business strategy and business objectives
- Risk universe
- Risk appetite framework
- Risk and Compliance policies
- Risk and Compliance oversight and assurance, including regulatory and reputational
- Risk identification, assessment, measurement, monitoring and reporting
- Risk and Compliance mandate requirements

**4) Business Partnering**
- Lead risk and compliance engagement with and oversight of Operations, People and Legal functions. This covers oversight and challenge of the nature of risk exposures, capital requirements and governance and their subsequent impact on CLUK across the whole risk universe. Specific accou


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