Risk Manager - Peoples Partnership : Job Details

Risk Manager

About People’s Partnership:

At the heart of our not-for-profit organisation is a commitment and a motivation to make the future-saving experience a simple one for our members. We champion fairness and simplicity, not profit-chasing. Imagine a financial adventure where everyone's a winner, fuelled by our exceptional service and brought to life by the fantastic individuals who work for us. We're a diverse employer with a flexible, hybrid working approach, ensuring everyone gets the opportunity to come to work and be the best version of themselves.

What you'll be doing:

The role purpose is to provide 2nd line analysis, challenge and insight of the risk profile and key enterprise risks (including horizon risks) arising within People’s Partnership, together with associated high-quality reporting.

The role will support the Head of Risk Advisory in ensuring adherence to the risk framework, monitoring of associated risk appetites across the group, and the management of the Operational Resilience programme. As part of this role, there will be an expectation that internal and external information sources will be monitored to assist in providing insights to internal risk identification and assessments.

The role will lead on the analysis of risk, control, and incident data and in reporting to governance forums, as well as designing and delivering a regular program of thematic work by the risk function.

• Assist with the delivery of the risk functions business plan.
• Assist with the collation of the required risk management information to monitor KRI’s, performance and exposure of risks across the business.
• Assist with the risk and controls assessment programme.
• Assist the Risk Manager and risk department with other tasks as may be required from time to time.
• Support the timely review of all key internal policies.
• Support the timely review of system permission checks.

What we’re looking for:

• Responsible for analysing risk data produced by the GRC system and from the Risk Business Partners, providing comment on:

• Key risk trends and hotspots
• Key Risk Indicators and monitoring against appetites.
• Internal risk profile relative to industry norms
• Integrity of risk assessments relative to observed incidents, frequency of issues and incidents
• Areas of risk overlap or gaps in risk profile
• Adequacy of action plans and paths to future target state
• Integrity of data relative to agreed Risk taxonomy by identifying instances of mis-categorisation or misidentification

What you can expect from us:

• Extensive experience within a risk function and solid understanding of risk management framework/processes.
• Ability to challenge business stakeholders and counterparts objectively and effectively.
• Ability to analyse complex business and risk issues/situations.
• Exposure to risk management in an investment business, including market and liquidity risk
• Good knowledge and practical use of Microsoft Office applications (e.g. Excel, PowerPoint).
• Ability to demonstrate flexibility and resilience.
• Ability to find innovative solutions, seek improvements and adapt to changing situations.
• Ability to understand, interpret, apply and communicate complex information.
• Credible at Senior Level

Disability Statement

People's Partnership is an equal opportunities employer. We believe everyone has the right to be treated fairly, with dignity and respect. We are committed to treating all our people (and all who apply for a role at People's Partnership) equally and enabling them to perform at their best and demonstrate what they have to offer. We are a disability committed employer, please let us know if you need any reasonable adjustments made to our recruitment process (application, selection assessments where relevant, and interview) to enable you to show us the best "you".