Risk Management Specialist

3 weeks ago

Swindon, Swindon, United Kingdom Openwork Full time
Senior Risk Manager Opportunity

Join Openwork, a dynamic and fast-paced business with huge ambition, as a Senior Risk Manager. This is a hybrid role, with 2 days per week in our Swindon office.

About the Role

As a Senior Risk Manager, you will support the Director of Group Risk in developing and maintaining the Group risk framework to inform strong risk-based decisions. You will provide guidance and counsel to the Senior Management Team and Executive, enhancing the risk culture across the business. Your responsibilities will include:

  • Producing risk assessments and reports for the Senior Management Team, Executive, and Board Committees
  • Supporting the Group Risk Director in ensuring the risk and control frameworks of the Group and its businesses are operating effectively
  • Building and maintaining effective relationships with stakeholders
  • Driving ownership and understanding of the benefits of risk management across the business
  • Innovating and developing new risk approaches, utilising industry and subject knowledge and contacts
  • Leading the production of risk assessments and opinions for key business decisions, change initiatives, and strategic initiatives
  • Maintaining the Group risk database, acting as lead administrator for user access and queries, and development of new functionality
  • Working with the business on maintaining risk and incident logs and escalating emerging issues as appropriate
  • Building and developing models to analyse and quantify the key risks facing the business
  • Assisting in managing the relationship with the outsourced internal audit function
What We Offer

We offer a competitive salary, car allowance, bonus scheme, pension scheme, critical illness cover, income protection, death in service, and 25 days holiday + bank holidays, with the opportunity to buy up to an additional 10 days. You will also have access to a range of flexible benefits, including private medical insurance, dental insurance, and more.

Requirements

To succeed in this role, you will need:

  • Extensive experience working in risk or compliance in either a first line or second line capacity
  • Experience of working in a range of risk types (mixture of enterprise risk, operational risk categories, or across financial, operational, and compliance)
  • Experience in the financial services world would be preferred
  • Preferable experience producing stress testing or in scenario analysis techniques
  • A strong understanding of risk management concepts and practical application
  • Knowledge of the financial services industry or similar service industry propositions
  • Awareness of a good range of products within the retail financial services sector
  • Understanding of the purpose and approach to the ICAAP process
  • Understanding of FCA regulatory policy and priorities
  • Excellent problem-solving skills and logical thinker
  • Well-developed communication skills to negotiate and influence internally with colleagues at all levels
  • A confident risk professional who is comfortable with working at all organisational levels and can command the respect of colleagues to demonstrate the benefits of risk management
  • Understanding the issues involved in running a business and the trade-off between risk and reward
  • Able to provide clear, pragmatic advice to other colleagues at all levels of the business
  • Effective business writing - keeping the complex simple
  • Ability to effectively assess priorities and deadlines
  • High self-confidence and motivation
  • Interpretive thinker to create/develop innovative solutions
  • Attention to detail and strong analytical skills including the ability to draw accurate conclusions from limited / incomplete data sets
  • Ability to visualise and articulate complex concepts to varied groups of stakeholders in a concise and structured manner
About Openwork

We are a dynamic, fast-paced, and growing business with huge ambition. We value individuality and are committed to building an inclusive culture and environment that truly recognises and celebrates our colleague's individual differences and identities. We believe everyone can make a difference and your race, religion, disability, and gender will never be a barrier. At Openwork, we have a strong ethic of care for each other where you can balance a successful career with your commitments and interests outside of work.

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