1st Line Risk Lead

• Risk Expertise: Deep understanding of risk management and how to apply it to build a proactive, forward-thinking risk culture.
• Stakeholder Management: Confident working with senior stakeholders, clearly communicating risk issues and collaborating across teams, including 2nd and 3rd line governance.
• Pragmatic Problem-Solving: Able to balance technical risk knowledge with business goals, working towards shared risk, consumer, and commercial outcomes.

• Starting salary from £49,700 - £60,000, depending on experience
• Monday to Friday, no weekends!
• 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays and an extra 'You' day off for important occasions or just a day for you!
• Fully supportive team throughout

• You'll provide clear guidance on risk and compliance to stakeholders to support delivery of business priorities
• You'll develop and maintain robust governance frameworks (in line with the Risk framework) to ensure that a strong control environment exists with risk and control accountabilities clearly defined
• You'll support the delivery of control actions across the department working with the Senior Risk Manager to ensure controls are effective and actions delivered in line with target actions
• You'll champion best practice governance through continual process enhancement and improvement
• You'll support the annual attestation programme of work for core processes, providing 1st line challenge to the core process owners
• You'll provide specialist Risk Management support and challenge to the FCIM function leading to the identification and assessment of risks and risk controls across the function, required to meet strategic goals.
• You'll do risk and loss event identification, management, resolution and reporting, including provision of support to members of FCIM
• You'll support the embedding of a risk aware culture and better risk ownership amongst the business
• You'll engage with both internal and external stakeholders on all risk matters
• You'll coordinate and oversee the delivery of all actions associated with FCIM risk
• You'll maintain the Risk Register and Risk Mitigation Action Log for FCIM related risks
• You'll work with 2nd and 3rd line Governance teams to continuously enhance ways of working and support the evolution of our governance frameworks and decision making

• You've demonstrable Risk Management and experience at an appropriate level
• You've knowledge of Financial Services market and regulatory framework
• You've knowledge of General Insurance products
• You've used and understand the Protecht risk management system

• You've some knowledge of risk management techniques
• You're a great communicator, both verbal and written
• Organisation and timekeeping are second nature to you, balancing your workload effectively
• You've excellent stakeholder management, with the ability to build relationships at all levels
• You've business skills around problem solving and root cause analysis
• You've the capacity to think across a range of business functions and systems

• You've a positive attitude towards change and continuous improvement
• You can generate ideas and solutions and uses them to solve problems
• You've got strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to adopt a logical approach to resolving problems, identifying key issues, underlying trends, and interrelationships
• You've an ability to deal with any business concerns or relationship issues
• You can demonstrate persistence, resilience, and tolerance for stress in the face of obstacles
• You're self-motivated and enthusiastic
• Teamwork makes the dream work! You've the ability to work on your own initiative and as part of a team
• You've a flexible approach to work and adopts a positive attitude
• You strive to drive business improvements to contribute to the success of the business

First Central Insurance & Technology Group