Risk and Controls Director
- London
- £200,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Ensure risk and control frameworks are fully aligned to the Board strategic objectives and drive ownership, transparency and robust decision making through effective governance, risks and controls management.
- Build and maintain organisational and operational resilience across t.
- Develop and promote the current strong risk stewardship culture across the organisation to provide timely identification and management of risk/control issues.
- Support the Board to define risk appetite and monitor compliance.
- Design, implementation and oversight of enterprise risk management
- Ensure risk and control defence management operates effectively across the organisation and support the outsourced Internal and External Audit activities.
- Responsibility for management of the Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) framework, ensuring best practice is adopted.
- Monitor and assess the risk horizon for new/emerging operational and regulatory risks.
- Proven senior management experience at C-level in Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) over preferably in payments, fintech or retail banking financial services.
- Significant professional experience in managing a team of ERM specialists.
- An understanding of Governance, Risk and Regulatory Compliance policies, controls and best practice.
- Experience of Risk frameworks and the management of enterprise risks across a dynamic business with a good understanding of technology and service delivery management.
- Experience of recovery and resilience planning incorporating risk assessments, threat modelling and cyber security incident management.
- Proven leadership skills including performance management and improvement, measurement of KPIs, situational leadership, issue resolution, negotiation and motivating others
- Demonstrable experience in a stakeholder-facing role to Board level.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and work streams simultaneously.
- Demonstrate experience in identifying, classifying and managing risks across an organisation.
- Ability to adapt to a fast-moving IT landscape and keep pace with the latest thought-leadership and technologies
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; interpersonal and collaborative skills; and the ability to communicate security and risk-related concepts to technical and non-technical audiences