Enterprise Risk Manager

Hybrid Working - 2 days a week on site
£400pd Inside IR35
Cardiff / Manchester / Southampton
emagine is a high-end professional services consultancy and solutions firm specialising in providing business and technology services to the financial services sector, we power progress, solve challenges and deliver real results through tailored high-end consulting services and solutions.

We have created a culture of openness and integrity by building genuine and strong relationships and partnerships, enabling us to be uncompromising in our dedication in delivering the optimal service for our clients. Our commitment is not just towards our clients but we aim to foster a positive and equitable working environment with our consultants and colleagues which stems from our core values: Confident, Dedicated, Responsible, Genuine.

The Enterprise Risk Manager plays a pivotal role in strengthening the organization's Enterprise Risk Management Framework (ERMF) and advancing the maturity of risk management practices across the Bank. This role focuses on embedding effective risk management processes, ensuring consistent application of governance standards, and supporting the Bank's strategic risk objectives.

Key Responsibilities
In this role, you'll play a key part in driving the maturity of the Bank's risk management framework and ensuring that strong governance practices are embedded across the organisation. Your main responsibilities will include:

• Supporting the development, implementation, and ongoing improvement of core enterprise risk processes, including risk policy management, risk appetite, and risk taxonomy.
• Acting as a trusted Subject Matter Expert (SME) in enterprise risk management — providing guidance, challenge, and assurance on the effective application of the ERMF.
• Contributing to the design and delivery of the Bank's risk data and management information (MI) strategy, ensuring accurate, insightful, and timely reporting.
• Setting and maintaining clear standards for aggregating and escalating risk matters to senior governance forums, including the ERC, BRC, and Board.
• Producing, analyzing, and continuously improving risk MI and reporting for senior stakeholders.
• Researching and applying industry best practices to enhance the ERMF and strengthen the Bank's overall risk maturity.
• Managing the Bank Risk Policy repository, leading the annual review cycle, and coordinating related communications.
• Owning the quarterly Risk Culture Dashboard, ensuring consistent and insightful reporting.
• Acting as Secretary to the Top Risk Working Group, ensuring the Bank's principal risks are effectively captured and communicated.
• Tracking and reporting on policy exceptions and risk acceptance requests, ensuring robust documentation and oversight.
• Supporting the SMF attestation process for the Group Chief Risk Officer (CRO).

Key Requirements

• Proven experience in enterprise risk management within financial services or a regulated environment.
• Retail Banking Experience is required
• Strong analytical and logical reasoning skills, with the ability to interpret and work with large datasets.
• Sound understanding of corporate governance principles and risk frameworks.
• Familiarity with GRC (Governance, Risk, and Compliance) systems.
• Excellent organisational, decision-making, and written communication skills.
• Attention to detail with a proactive and methodical approach to problem-solving
• Prior experience leading enterprise-wide risk initiatives or framework enhancements.
• Strong interpersonal and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and challenge constructively.
• Commitment to continuous improvement and operational excellence.

Our People
The ideal consultants will share our values and be aligned with our ways of working and as your career progresses, you can expect to work across all areas of the project lifecycle, from strategy to implementation. This will provide you with a broad base of experience from which to build an outstanding career.

The ideal consultants will share our values and be aligned with our ways of working and as your career progresses, you can expect to work across all areas of the project lifecycle.

We pride ourselves on;

• Providing our people with a supportive culture, rooted in our values and driven by our purpose.
• Promoting a culture of inclusion, collaboration, well-being, and learning and development.
• Providing increased agility and flexibility within our hybrid working model
• Investing in employees' growth through ongoing training and development
• Autonomy to take ownership of projects, making decisions and demonstrating individual expertise
• Providing an transparent performance and career management experience.

Our consultants are integral to delivering successful consulting engagements, addressing our clients' most pressing business challenges, and build lasting value in disciplines such as:

• Solve sophisticated, ambiguous business, change and technology problems, bringing structure and meticulous analysis and planning, acting, and taking decisions with little strategic direction
• Build, develop and sustain trusted senior client relationships in the C-suite by remaining highly attuned to client needs
• Drive, enable and support the business, partnering with our leaders, clients, and consultants across our practices to take the best of emagine to our clients through opportunity identification/qualification, solution development/presentation

Interested?
At emagine, we are committed to building an international and diverse team by embracing our different backgrounds.

If you are up to the challenge and would like to find out more, get in touch with us immediately, our internal recruitment team is always keen to hear from dynamic individuals that are looking to further their career and explore their full potential.

"emagine is an equal opportunity employer, and employment practices are based strictly on merit. It is the policy of the Company to give equal opportunity in employment regardless of sex, sexual orientation, marital status, race, age, disability, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, religion or ethnic origin"