Description
This role sits within a centralised assurance team. We are seeking a self-driven individual to join our Enterprise Risk team.
Reporting to the Enterprise Risk Manager the Business Partner will have a focus upon supporting Enterprise Risk and control activities providing consultancy services, guidance, and insights.
Working within the 2nd line, supporting our Executive Management team and Senior Leaders as they identify, assesses, and monitor, risks and controls.
Direct activities
- Provide advice to enable the business to conduct risk management processes, including risk identification, assessment, management, and monitoring of risk.
- Facilitate workshops with Executives and senior leaders.
- Drive the identification, development, and documentation of the key controls for Principal Risks. Ensuring that they are developed to the appropriate standard.
- Ensure representative child risk (and control) landscapes are identified for Principal Risks.
- Deliver periodic and time sensitive reporting to risk leads and heads of department.
Indirect activities
- Support formal reporting to the Executive Team, Audit and Risk committee and occasionally into the Board.
- Collaborate with fellow Risk Business Partners in the delivery of risk workshops
- Assist / guide managers across the organisation, to ensure that the right quality of risk and control information is in the system at the right time, to be positioned for periodic testing.
Analysis and Insight
- Collaborate with the broader team to improve insights and data provision.
- An understanding of the concepts of horizon scanning and emerging risk.
Building Capability and Culture
- Strong stakeholder skills, to develop effective relationships with key contacts (Executive Management, senior management, risk professionals and risk champions) within the ESO. Enabling the developing maturity of 1st and 2nd line risk assurance activity.
Technical / Specialist Skills and Experience:
- A deep understanding of the energy sector - in terms of structure, regulatory environment and the short and long-term issues affecting the industry
- Deep experience and knowledge of Risk Management including tools, processes and systems. Coupled with the ability to break these down, so that those who are not risk and control specialists can comfortably contribute.
- Business change experience, including effective communications, business engagement and stakeholder management
- Experience of working with ServiceNow
- Good people management and interpersonal skills.