Our client is an award-winning bank with a range of specialist mortgages, savings accounts and business finance solutions. They're looking to recruit an Enterprise Risk Manager to be based from either their London, Reading, Cardiff or Manchester office where there is a hybrid working policy in place. The role will pay a competitive basic salary, annual bonus and comes with a range of excellent benefits.
You will lead the development, implementation, maintenance and ongoing enhancement of our clients Risk Appetite and wider risk reporting and MI (for those reports and MI coordinated within the ERM team).
What is expected of the Enterprise Risk Manager?
Risk Appetite
- Owning the updates to the Risk Appetite Framework/Policy and related templates/presentations to committees.
- Ensuring compliance with the requirements of the Risk Appetite Framework/Policy.
- Embedding Risk Appetite within our client, ensuring that it is appropriately adopted by principal risks, business functions and first / second line.
- Collaborating across teams for accurate, complete, and effective monitoring of risk appetite.
- Ensuring appropriate level of control is applied to the setting, monitoring, reporting and escalation of risk appetite metrics.
- Regularly reviewing and challenging Board-approved risk appetite, including coordinating with other areas, such as finance, as part of the annual financial planning cycle.
Strategic and Emerging Risks
- Lead on the Strategic and Emerging Risk process including reporting to committees and FirstRand.
ICAAP
- Act as the ERM point of contact for ICAAP, including any ERM reporting requirements.
MI and Reporting
- Developing centralised Risk reports and MI (generally MI and analytics based on unstructured data).
- Work with stakeholders to develop and enhance reports and MI produced to ensure it is easy to understand and meaningful.
- Work with colleagues within ERM and more broadly within the Risk function to continually enhance the reports and MI produced and look for ways to better integrate data sets from various sources to provide a more complete view of risk.
People Management
- Effectively manage own and team workload and priorities
- Develop team members providing opportunities for growth
What we look for in an Enterprise Risk Manager?
Technical knowledge
- Strong experience in producing MI and reporting in similar organisations and be familiar with financial services, ideally with a clear perspective on risk management (5 years+).
- Excellent organisational skills with project management capability. Able to deliver in a pragmatic and focused manner.
- Numerate, with a clear understanding of commercial drivers that underpin business performance.
- Strategic thinking capability and experience.
Building Relationships / People
- Able to build and develop ongoing relationships at a range of levels across the business. Including the ability to lead small teams on specific tasks.
- Preferably have experience in coaching and supporting team members enabling them to grow.
Critical Thinking
- Attention to detail, effective planning and organisational skills and demonstrable ability to work under own initiative is essential.
- Have a naturally curious and inquisitive approach to work, proactively questioning the status quo where appropriate.
Effective Communication
- Excellent communication (written and verbal) skills with the ability to effectively engage and influence business stakeholders including senior stakeholders.
- Excellent organisational and influencing skills.
Management of data
- Advanced Excel, PowerPoint and Word skills.
What the Enterprise Risk Manager will receive
- Competitive salary
- Annual bonus
- Aviva Digital GP
- Bus And Tram Benefit
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Eyecare Voucher & Display Screens/Desk Set-Up
- Flu Jab Vouchers
- Group Income Protection
- Life Assurance
- Metrolink Annual Pass & Clipper Ticket
- Microsoft Discounts
- Private Medical Insurance Shopping Discounts
- Toothfairy
- Your Workplace Pension
InterQuest Group is acting as an employment agency for this vacancy. InterQuest Group is an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of age, disability, gender, religion/belief, race, marriage, civil partnership, pregnancy, maternity, sex or sexual orientation. Please make us aware if you require any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.