Risk Management Specialist

3 weeks ago

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

Join Openwork as a Senior Risk Manager and take on a key role in supporting the Director of Group Risk in developing and maintaining the Group risk framework. This is a hybrid role, with 2 days per week in our Swindon office.

About the Role

As a Senior Risk Manager, you will be responsible for providing guidance and counsel to the Senior Management Team and Executive in the execution of their responsibilities. You will also enhance the risk culture across the business by providing independent oversight, assurance, and challenge of risk management practices and control performance in the 1st line.

Key Responsibilities
  • Produce risk assessments and reports for the Senior Management Team, Executive, and Board Committees
  • Support the Group Risk Director in ensuring that the risk and control frameworks of the Group and its businesses are operating effectively
  • Build and maintain effective, collaborative relationships with stakeholders
  • Drive ownership and understanding of the benefits of risk management across the business
  • Innovate and develop new risk approaches, utilising industry and subject knowledge and contacts
  • Lead the production of risk assessments and opinions for key business decisions, change initiatives, and strategic initiatives
  • Maintain the Group risk database, acting as lead administrator for user access and queries, and development of new functionality
  • Work 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
Requirements
  • 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
What We Offer
  • Salary - up to £80,000
  • Car allowance - £5,486
  • Bonus scheme - on target bonus -15%
  • Pension scheme - contribute up to 5% of your salary and Openwork will match you and put in an extra 5%
  • Critical illness cover
  • Income protection
  • Death in service
  • 25 days holiday + bank holidays, with the opportunity to buy up to an additional 10 days
  • A range of other flexible benefits to include private medical insurance, dental insurance, and much more
About Openwork

We're a dynamic, fast-paced, and growing business with huge ambition. The Openwork Partnership values and respects individuality and we are committed to building an inclusive culture and environment which truly recognises and celebrates our colleague's individual differences and identities - just like our financial advice, for us, it's personal. 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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