Senior IT Systems Risk Specialist

HOURS: Full-time - 35 hours per week

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites listed above.

ABOUT THIS OPPORTUNITY

We're on an exciting journey and there couldn't be a better time to join us. We're putting in place a fresh operating model for non-financial risk management across the Group, empowering our people to take end-to-end accountability for managing the risks that they face!

This will include giving our senior leaders and Risk Owners advice on their risk appetite decisions, safely, and at pace.

To ensure our strategic transformation on this scale, we need you to have a breadth and depth of knowledge in current tech, and be passionate about its application and how we manage its risks; prepare to disrupt the norm in the pursuit of the best possible customer and staff experience.

You'll have deep operational risk knowledge and provide thought leadership, insight and oversight that supports the implementation of the second line of defence and executes its roles and responsibilities. You'll lead our approach to implementing risk policy, appetite, and control objectives to enable the delivery of customer, regulatory and business strategic outcomes.

What will you be doing?

Influencing and consulting on Operational Technology Risk & Control:

• Managing and driving the close relationship between Risk and Control owner teams and being their Operational Risk Specialist business partner, consulting them on key operational tech risk and control matters.
• Providing pragmatic advice to support data-lead and well-informed key risk decisions and trade-offs (balancing commerciality and risk appetite), being bold to 'call it', and influence senior decision makers.

• Managing the development and implementation of a risk and control oversight plan to assess compliance to relevant laws, regulations, industry standards and controls.
• Supporting Risk and Control owners to address control deficiencies and identifying remedial actions following operational risk events and breaches.

• Identifying and developing key risk indicators (KRIs) to enable appropriate monitoring and assisting with the development and implementation of effective, ongoing data-led operational Risk control objectives to meet the needs or risk and control owners, control specialist teams, Audit and external regulators.
• Regularly monitoring and validating the effectiveness of the design of control measures to ensure they are achieving the control objectives.

WHAT YOU'LL NEED

• Detailed knowledge key technology risks, ideally ones facing financial services groups, with a proven ability to shape and drive the strategy and implementation of a company's Technical Risk Operational Risk.

• Experience in effectively interpreting new operational risk regulations and emerging technology innovations (inc. AI, Digital Ledger Technology, Quantum) and anticipating the impact of changes and act accordingly.

• Effective and timely decision-making skills that keeps the organisation moving forward whilst skilfully balancing difficult trade-offs.
• Assimilating different sources of data and complex information to effectively problem-solve and make relevant conclusions and recommendations.

• Having deep knowledge of relevant laws, regulations and industry best-practice and using that knowledge to establish the risk appetite, policies, control objectives and performance indicators around technology risk within a large organisation, whilst continuously monitoring and reporting on these.

• Being a strong, influencing communicator with a track-record of inspiring others by building close working partnerships and gaining followership and commitment to future action through personal integrity, collaboration and Inclusive leadership within Technology Risk Management space.

ABOUT WORKING FOR US

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation 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, neurodiversity or culture and we 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!