Operational Risk Lead

4 weeks ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom Michael Page (UK) Full time
About the Role

A 12-month fixed-term contract opportunity has arisen for a Senior Risk Management Professional to join a leading corporate and investment bank in London.

As a key member of the Risk team, you will be responsible for developing and implementing quality control policies and standards, managing the resolution of control weaknesses, and overseeing the UK Risk RCSA.

You will also be tasked with coordinating maintenance and updates of the enterprise repository for regulatory requirements and controls, preparing and updating the SMF Living will, and maintaining an inventory of all policies, framework, procedures, and guidelines.

In addition, you will advise the UK Operational Risk team on best industry practices and perform any other work efforts assigned by management.

Key responsibilities include:

  1. Quality assurance (QA) testing program for UK Risk team.
  2. Developing quality control policies and standards.
  3. Establishing, maintaining, and monitoring KRIs/KPIs for UK Risk team.
  4. Managing the resolution of control weaknesses and implementation of improvements to ensure quality delivery, maintenance of the issues and improvements log.
  5. Overseeing the UK Risk RCSA.
  6. Ongoing assessment of department compliance with applicable Bank policies and procedures.
  7. Local Regulatory Compliance Programme management.
  8. Regulatory horizon scanning for relevant publications from PRA, FCA, Basel, or other relevant bodies.
  9. Coordinating maintenance and updates of the enterprise repository for regulatory requirements and controls for the Risk Management Function.
  10. Completing the quarterly Compliance Risk Control Assessment (CRCA) for the function and submitting for review.
  11. Development and administration of key control activities.
  12. Preparing and updating SMF Living will.
  13. Coordinating maintenance and updates of Master Service Level Agreement and monitoring as well as reporting KPIs, Service Level Agreements inventory.
  14. Maintaining and updating UK Risk Charter.
  15. Maintaining an inventory of all policies, framework, procedures, and guidelines, including EUC framework compliance.
  16. Maintaining all job descriptions.
  17. Preparation of quality management information, including risk and controls assessment metric-based dashboard for senior management review and resolution.
  18. Advising the UK Operational Risk team on best industry practices.
  19. Any other work efforts assigned by management.
About You

To be successful in this role, you will have extensive experience working in Operational Risk areas, good knowledge and experience in conducting 2nd line reviews, organisational skills and attention to detail, and banking experience is vital.

A competitive annual salary at VP level, a role based in the City of London, and hybrid working are offered for this opportunity.



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