Senior Manager Control Design and Optimisation
SALARY: From £80,206
LOCATION(S): Chester, Cardiff, Leeds or Manchester
HOURS: Full time
WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an office site
About this opportunity
We are looking for a dynamic, motivated, and forward-thinking senior manager to join the Consumer Lending Chief Controls Office. In this role, you will:
- Lead key initiatives to improve our non-financial control environment.
- Embed control by design and advance control automation within Consumer Lending.
- Support Consumer Lending in identifying opportunities to simplify, optimise, and automate controls using innovative technology.
- Support Consumer Lending in achieving strategic goals and delivering faster, more efficient services for our customers.
We are committed to building a high-performing team where each colleague is valued, supported, and empowered to become an expert in their field. Our goal is to ensure every team member understands their role within the broader Group strategy, contributing to the safe and effective management of non-financial risk in Consumer Lending.
About us
As the Group embarks on one of the UK's most significant financial services transformations, our internal risk transformation focused on instilling a robust risk and control culture has never been more crucial. We're on an exciting journey and there couldn't be a better time to join us.The investments we're making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities, and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive.
What you'll need- Leadership: Ability to inspire and lead a team towards achieving strategic goals.
- Communication: Strong verbal and written communication skills to convey complex ideas clearly.
- Strategic Thinking: Capability to think ahead and plan for future control needs and improvements.
- Problem-Solving: Aptitude for identifying issues and developing effective solutions.
- Collaboration: Working effectively with other areas and stakeholders.
- Adaptability: Being flexible and open to change, especially in a challenging environment.
It would also be great if you have:
- Risk and Control Management: Robust understanding of the Risk and Control Management Framework with practical control management knowledge and experience.
- End to End Risk and Control mapping - Delivering prescribed outcomes by working with established control design, mapping, monitoring and testing approaches.
- Control by Design (CbD) - An understanding of the Control by Design Methodology.
- Platform Change Framework (PCF) - Knowledge of PCF and how change is delivered within the Group.
- RCSA - Experience using the RCSA system and working with risk and control owner teams.
About working for us
Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organization that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.
We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.
We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.
And it's why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.
We're disability confident. So, if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.
We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
- A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
- An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance
- Share schemes including free shares
- Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
- 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top
- A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
If you're excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We'd love to hear from you.