Risk Assessment Lead

**Who we are**

Vanquis helps people who are excluded by mainstream banks take control of their financial situation. Whether they’re new to credit or need a hand rebuilding their credit file to manage life better, we make sure our services are straightforward and suitable for them to succeed.

We’re here to put people on a path to a better everyday life, not just our 1.7 million customers but our colleagues too. And we’re proud of the difference we make.

**You and your team**

As a Risk Assessment Lead at Vanquis you will be responsible for educating and influencing COO leadership, management and suppliers on key regulatory developments and risk exposure.

Under the direction of our Senior Risk Assessment Manager, you will work to ensure that regulatory change is implemented promptly and correctly, and that initiatives that have an impact on the COO's risk assessment and control design are given top priority and are executed flawlessly.

**In your day to day role you will**
- Drive Risk Assessment best practice and adherence to Group Standards.
- Through research and attendance at key industry meetings be the source of key internal and external information in order to lead on emerging external and internal risks impacting COO.
- Lead on risk assessment and requirements for Regulatory Projects.
- Lead on risk impact assessment and new control design from changes to Risk Profile from Change Projects impacting COO.
- Manage a stakeholder network effectively to deliver results in a collaborative way, whilst maintaining the integrity of the overall function and COO

**What you’ll bring to the team**

Working in Risk and Control at Vanquis you will work to reduce risk exposure through excellent risk assessment and control design. To be successful in this role, the following skills and experience is required:

- Have an in depth knowledge and expertise of Risk Management within financial services.
- Good knowledge of the set up and routine operations within COO.
- Excellent knowledge of 3rd Party providers to COO including contractual set up, governance and routine operations
- Brilliant stakeholder manager and building strong relationships.
- Excellent at assessing large volumes of information and presenting key points concisely
- A proven track record in risk assessment and impactful influencing
- To be highly experienced on regulatory and industry engagement and participation on working groups.

**Why Vanquis?**

Our colleagues are the most important part of delivering our purpose to put customers on a path to a better everyday life. If it wasn’t for their amazing efforts, ideas and energy we wouldn’t be the successful business that we are today. So we offer an attractive, competitive salary and benefits package for everyone including:

- Competitive base salary and rewards
- Discretionary bonus scheme
- 25 days holiday entitlement - with one day accrued for each year of service (to max 30 days)
- Defined contribution pension scheme
- Extensive opportunities for personal and career development
- Flexible and dynamic working policies
- A range of initiatives offered through our Sports & Social and Social Impact Programmes
- Perks at Work - A perks platform offering over 30,000 unique discounts
- Free tea, coffee and fruit
- Discounted gym membership
- Subsidised on-site restaurants

**Find out more**

Check out our social media channels find out more about everyday life at Vanquis - and don’t forget to follow us while you’re there

LinkedIn: Vanquis Bank
Facebook: Vanquis Careers
Glassdoor: Vanquis Bank

Good luck

**#MakeWorkMeanMore**

We know that by having a better, more inclusive culture and a diverse group of colleagues, we can support our customers and each other in the best way possible. We also believe this goes a long way to helping us live our purpose and defines why we’re here in the first place: to help put people on a path to a better everyday life.

We’re an equal opportunities employer and we want people to join us no matter how they identify, their sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability or age.

We think that if you can Be Yourself in the workplace, you’ll do your best work and enjoy being part of the team. And as a business we get to benefit from that and to celebrate all the wonderful things that diversity brings.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Benefits**:

- Company events
- On-site parking

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday
- No weekends

Supplemental pay types:

- Performance bonus
- Yearly bonus

Work Location: Hybrid remote in CHATHAM