Graduate Financial Risk and Assurance Officer

This Housing Group is a modern, dynamic, and flexible social business, aiming to deliver high quality, value for money services. They are proud of their people and what they achieve, making a positive impact on everyday lives.

As a not-for-profit organisation, they reinvest surpluses back into the local community by building new homes, improving existing homes and supporting community initiatives.

Their Values underpin all that they do, and they are looking for an individual that can demonstrate a commitment to **Working Together, Making Things Better**and **Doing The Right Thing.**

**JOB TITLE: Graduate Financial Risk and Assurance Officer**

**DEPARTMENT: Finance & Risk**

**PURPOSE OF ROLE**:
To support the Head of Risk and Assurance in providing a robust, independent, and objective risk oversight and controls assurance of all aspects of the Group’s business. To assist the Head of Risk and Assurance in providing the Executive Team and Board withassurance on regulatory compliance across the Group.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Responsible for gathering information for the quarterly risk update report, acting as a business partner to the Executive Team and Leadership team to review early warning indicators and risk appetite metrics.
- Develop and maintain a controls assurance register to monitor assurance on the effectiveness of the internal controls across all three lines of defence.
- Responsible for collating information for the production for the monthly compliance report for Executive Team and Board.
- Responsible for co-ordinating internal audit visits and follow up reviews with operational managers.
- Provide support to the Head of Risk and Assurance to manage the risk reporting timetable and reporting to the Executive Team, Audit & Risk Committee and Board.
- Partner with operational business managers to ensure that inherent and residual risk calculations are accurate and risk mitigating actions are effective.
- Oversee integrity of the data in the centralised risk register to maintain a second line of defence.
- Responsible for annual renewal of insurance, together with claims monitoring and reporting on claims to Audit & Risk Committee and Health and Safety Committee.
- Support the review and development of Rooftop’s Fraud Policy and procedures, maintaining Rooftop’s fraud register, reporting to Audit & Risk Committee, and submitting the annual return on fraud to the regulator
- Provide support to the Head of Risk and Assurance on the production and maintenance of business continuity plans, ensuring they are comprehensive, up to date, tested, reflect best practice and appropriate for the risks faced by the organisation.
- Responsible for supporting effective team budgets, as agreed by the Head of Risk and Assurance, in accordance with agreed policy and procedure, ensuring value for money and maximising efficiency.
- Undertake projects or tasks as requested by the Finance Director or Head of Risk and Assurance.

**Person Specification**:

- Relevant degree
- Experience of working to tight timescales
- Ability to grasp new areas of responsibility quickly.
- Confidence in forming effective working relationships with a broad range of people, including working as part of a team.
- Ability to draw accurate and informative conclusions from detailed information without losing the sight of the bigger picture
- Ability to think ahead and demonstrate effective problem-solving skills.
- Excellent listening, written and oral communication skills including the ability to adapt oral and written communication methods and styles to suit the audience.
- Customer focussed, externally and internally
- IT literate - Microsoft Office.

**Desirable**:

- Institute of Risk Management Certificate
- Experience of working in the same or similar role
- Experience of the principles of risk management

**HOURS OF WORK**:37 hours, Monday to Friday.

The work can be carried out between 8.00am and 6.30pm with line manager agreement and in accordance with role responsibilities and business need.

**PAY & BENEFITS**

**28,000 rising to 32,000**

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Pension SHPS CARE pension scheme.Matching employer contribution upto9%.

Life assurance Next of kin or nominated person to receive a financial sum of threetimesannual salary,upon deathinservice.

Healthplan Group funded health cash plan, which includes a range oftreatments. Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) provides 24-hour freeconfidential phone helpline for employees and families at the sameaddress.

Exceptional Contribution Award Annual performance award for exceptional contribution. Awards are2%, 5%or10%of salary.

**Car parking**

Mostlocationshaveon-siteparkingorallocationparkingnearby.

**Professional membership fees**

Annual professional membership fee paid if relevant and requiredfortherole

**Occupational sick pay**

Paid from day one of employment. Level of entitlement is based onservice.

**Gym and health club membership discount**

25% off discounted membership fees

**Cycle to work scheme**

Facility to purchase a bike and equipment, with up to 50% savingson National Insurance and income tax,dependentonsalary.

**PERKS**

Online discount for shops, supermarkets, cinema, insurance, andholidays

**New home leave**

2days’ paid leave to support with a housemove.

**Familylife**

Maternity, paternity, parental leave, adoption leave and pay, and flexible working requests.

**Bereavement leave**

Upto 3 days’paid leave to support with a family bereavement.

**Volunteeringscheme**

15 hours paid volunteering leave, per leave year (pro rota).Must be matched by a commitment from the employee’s annual leave.

**Reservistleave**

5 days’ paid leave to attend compulsory training for non-regularforces.

**Leadership and Management Development Program**

A bespoke program for leaders and managers, ranging from insights profiling to effective leadership and people management.