Interim Head of Enterprise-wide Risk Management - Connells Group HQ : Job Details

Job DescriptionConnells Group have an exciting role with Risk and Compliance for a Interim Head of Enterprise-wide Risk ManagementYou will be based in our Milton Keynes or Leighton Buzzard office.Job Purpose and ObjectiveTo manage and facilitate the effective delivery of a robust Enterprise-wide Risk Management (ERM) framework, and provide oversight and direction for the management of risks (within risk appetite as set out by the Connells Limited Board) across the Group.You will be responsible for:

• To embed and continually improve the ERM framework across the Group so that:
• Risks are identified, updated and managed within all Group entities
• Appropriate risk reports and MI packs are submitted to relevant Group Boards/Committees and to the parent company (SBS).
• Ensure that management across the Group understand the ERM framework and their responsibilities within it.
• Ensure a comprehensive understanding and adherence to risk management standards, processes and procedures.
• Act as a source of technical expertise on risk matters for others across the Group.
• Ensure risks are robustly anticipated, mitigated and managed.
• Perform risk assessments and deep dive reviews of Group entities (and functions, where appropriate) and activities across the Group through facilitated workshops and analysis.
• Provision of training to aid the identification, assessment, management and recording of risks at all levels.
• Respond to and manage emerging issues through the mechanisms of the framework.
• Maintenance of the Board Control Manual.
• Manage [one] Risk Analyst and [three] Risk Managers and develop their skills and capabilities in order to deliver effectively.
• Develop and maintain effective and collaborative working relationships with internal stakeholders to ensure that a strong culture of risk management is embedded across the Group.
• Work closely with key stakeholders across the Group and with 2^nd and 3^rd line teams at SBS to ensure an agreed and co-ordinated approach to risk management.
• Keep abreast of best practice and external developments in the area of risk management and ensure that learning is applied.
• Identify and escalate at the earliest opportunity any significant risks and issues to the Group Risk & Compliance Director
• Deliver action tracking of SBS Internal Audit and Compliance actions.
• Attend Committees as agreed with the Group Risk Compliance Director.
• Ad hoc support as directed by the Group Risk & Compliance Director.

Your experience and skills will include:

• Experience of managing or implementing risk frameworks, ideally in a Financial Services environment.
• Ability to use a wide range of analytical tools and well as project planning techniques.
• Ability to understand the commercial and organisation impacts on the risk profile.
• Excellent interpersonal and influencing skills and the credibility to work well with Directors/ Senior Management and to liaise with regulators/ authorities.
• Excellent attention to detail and ability to deliver high quality written work and reporting.
• Ability to assess the impact and relevance of issues and articulate them in a clear and precise manner whilst ensuring a commercial approach is maintained.
• Highly self motivated with ability to prioritise time and work and to react to urgent situations.
• Relevant professional qualification.

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