Business Unit: Group Risk
Salary range: up to circa £93,000 per annum DOE + red-hot benefits
Location: UK Flexible
Contract Type: Permanent
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Our team
You'll be part of our Operational & Resilience Risk Team, which covers Operational Risk, Operational Resilience, Payments Risk, Technology & Cyber Risk and Change Risk. You'll report into the Head of Technology & Cyber Risk and support them in the delivery of strategic objectives across Technology Risk.
What you'll be doing
- Designing the technology change risk oversight plan, in conjunction with the wider Technology & Cyber Risk team, to support the overall technology strategy for the Bank. Keeping abreast of the changes occurring in the industry on technology risk and information security matters and be aware of wider trends that could have an impact.
- Leading 2nd Line advice on technology related risk for the highest risk new and in-flight programmes, using a wide network of Executive and other stakeholders across the Group.
- Ensuring all technology related risks and issues arising from change are identified, assessed, managed and reported, with any delivered risks being reflected in the technology risk profile, and ensuring ongoing monitoring of risk appetite limits, providing oversight and challenge to change policies, processes and systems so these are achieved.
- Managing elements of the risk framework and its continuous development. Accountable for ensuring the second line of defence conducts fit for purpose management of technology change risk in line with the framework.
- Leading Risk's oversight of the technology related aspects of all business change including review of business cases, accurate risk assessments, alignment to strategy and how change improves the technology risk profile, identifying any key dependencies and challenges in delivery of strategic outcomes. Whilst providing focused pieces of thematic work covering aspects of the project lifecycle, agreeing actions and reporting to senior management.
- Leading the provision of expert opinion, direction, guidance and support in the oversight and independent challenge of Business Units to ensure that technology change related risks are identified, documented, measured, monitored and mitigated in line with the Change Risk Framework.
- Contributing to the production of high quality and insightful Executive and Board reports and support the Risk Executive in external reporting to Regulators. Along with ensuring technology related issues arising pre and post live date from key change initiatives are monitored and actioned through insightful MI reporting.
We need you to have
- Significant experience in technology and/or cyber risk management within Financial Services.
- Extensive experience within the Financial Services industry, ideally across various roles.
- Broad knowledge of Risk Management disciplines and the three lines of defence model in place across the Group.
- Highly developed stakeholder management skills and the confidence, facilitation and influential skills to deliver at senior management and executive level.
- SME in the principles and application of technology and change risk management.
- Experience in producing high impact reports, extracting key themes, for a variety of stakeholders, ensuring key messages are presented appropriately for the audience, with business relevance and organisation impact.
It's a bonus if you have but not essential
- Professional qualification e.g Prince2, Agile, CISA
- Extensive Change Management experience, covering different elements of a risk management framework.
Red Hot Rewards
- Generous holidays - 38.5 days annual leave (including bank holidays and prorated if Part–Time) plus the option to buy more.
- Up to five extra paid well-being days per year.
- 20 weeks paid, gender-neutral family leave (52 weeks in total) for expectant parents and those looking to adopt.
- Market-leading pension.
- Free private medical cover, income protection and life assurance.
- Flexible benefits include Cycle to Work, wellness and health assessments, and critical illness.
And there's no waiting around, you'll enjoy these benefits from day one.
Feeling insatiably curious about this role? If we're lucky to receive a lot of interest, we may close the advert early and would hate you to miss out.
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