Risk and Governance Manager

Role:                                                Risk and Governance Manager

Location of Employment                  159-161 Upper Sheriff Street, Dublin 1

Reporting to                                   Chief Finance Officer

Contract                                          Permanent

Salary                                             €56,823 - €73,536 per annum

Probation                                        6 months

Pension                                           Available on completion of probation

Hours                                               35 Hours per week

Leave                                               22 days (+ closed 3 designated days Christmas week)

 

           

Clúid Housing is the largest approved housing body (AHB) in Ireland, providing over 9,800 affordable, high quality homes to people in housing need. Our vision is for a society where everyone has a great place to live. This will be achieved by providing quality housing and services to enable people to create homes and thriving communities.

 

Clúid Housing is an equal opportunities employer and proud to have been recognised as a top employer in Ireland. At Clúid Housing we firmly believe that our success is down to our dedicated and growing staff body working in every corner of Ireland. Our company is made up of talented people who bring enthusiasm, confidence, expertise, professionalism and respect to our business. Our staff consistently work towards achieving our vision of creating a society where everyone has a great place to live. 

Our employees benefit from a great working environment, great learning opportunities, a supportive management team and an extensive benefits package:

•            Competitive Remuneration

•            Excellent & Continuous Training

•            Development Opportunities

•            Flexible Working Arrangements

•            Access to an Employee Assistance Programme

•            Excellent Employee Benefits

 

If the above appeals to you, then keep reading.....and remember Clúid Housing is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

 

Finance & Treasury Department

The Finance & Treasury Department is led by the Chief Finance Officer (CFO) and this is split into seven sections

•            Transactional Finance

•            Financial Reporting & Business Partnering

•            Treasury

•            Corporate Finance

•            Risk Assurance

•            Procurement

The Finance Department provides a range of services in support of Clúid’s primary mission “providing quality housing and services to enable people to create homes and thriving communities”. It is led by the Chief Finance Officer and supported by the Head of Finance, Head of Procurement along with a new Head of Corporate Finance and Treasury role.

 

Risk & Governance Manager Role

Risk & Governance Manager will be responsible for implementation and management the Risk Assurance Framework and governance pillar for the business. Working across the organisation the role will work with risk holders, increasing understanding of risk, controls and improving their risk management. The role will provide support to the Audit & Risk Committee members providing a resource for undertaking deep dives to assess assurance provided and report to ARC.

 

Role: Risk & Governance Manager

Role Overview:

Reporting directly to the CFO, the role will be responsible for implementation and management the Risk Assurance Framework and Governance pillar for the business.

 

Reporting to: Chief Finance Officer

 

Job Description

Main Responsibilities

Risk Management

•            Monitor, assess, and recommend solutions to emerging risks both within the organisation, the sector, political and economic environment

•            Apply understanding of internal audit standards, policies, and local regulations to provide timely audit assurance

•            Management of the annual internal audit planning process, and relationship with external providers

•            Conduct operational, compliance, financial, and investigative audits; including process reviews, segregation of duties reviews, procedures reviews, and other global controls reviews

•            Prepare audit reports and work papers to ensure adequate documentation exists to support the completed internal audit and conclusions

•            Identify, recommend, and resolve improvements to processes and controls

•            Timely monitoring and escalation, if required, of the implementation of recommendations

•            Develop and maintain relationships with senior management and key stakeholders across the business

•            Responsible for implementing the risk assurance strategy along with policies.

•            Ensure that the departmental processes and controls are being effectively implemented through appropriate design, focus, direction and control of inherent risks, detection risks, and control risks

•            Manage and coordinate the company risk register, leveraging the bow-tie risk and Three Lines of Defence methodologies

•            Lead company building and business insurance renewal, risk assessment of cover, monitoring operational activity, advising internally, and liaising with the broker.

•            Leading on quarterly claims review and supporting claims learning across the organisation

•            Undertake regular checks on compliance with insurance policy requirements, report findings and advise on action plans

•            Lead on Risk reporting to Operations, Executive, Audit & Risk Committee and Board teams in line with meeting calendars

•            Support business to design and implement process controls in their departments.

•            Lead independent internal testing of processes and controls to provide audit assurance to ARC and Board

•            Providing horizontal oversight of all risk issues and events through designing and implementing reporting and governance routines

•            Providing qualitative and quantitative analysis on risk issues and events to the business to drive risk-based decisions to strengthen the control environment

•            Coordinating self-assessments / attestations to ensure timeliness and completeness as well as monitor any remediation required

•            Third Party Risk Management reviews

•            Support enhancement and testing of anti-money laundering and anti-fraud policies and controls, to protect company assets

•            Assist departments to build process maps with sufficient controls, authorisations, and routine monitoring in place

 

Governance

•            Provide corporate governance support to company secretary within role responsibilities

•            Assist with compliance with relevant statutory and regulatory corporate governance matters

•            Lead on finance statutory regulatory returns

•            Promote and embed a strong Risk Culture across the organisation

•            Stay up to date with any local laws and regulatory changes, and ensure those requirements are communicated and implemented across the business

•            Support the implementation of ESG framework and reporting as required

•            Assist in maintaining, improving, and building out a governance framework and reporting

•            Conducting independent governance effectiveness reviews and assessments.

•            Delivering training and development support to business on topics such as governance, risk, regulatory and legal requirements developments

Other

•            Ad-hoc projects, including research of finance and accounting problems, gather information to support analysis and provide audit support

•            Manage the planning and implementation of process improvement and change management initiatives for the Finance department

•            Accountable for the preparation of Executive and Board risk and internal audit papers

•            Communicates regulatory, financial information and complex strategic issues in a clear, concise, and relevant manner to assist & guide decision-makers in property transactions

 

Corporate Responsibilities

•            Ensuring all activity is aligned to Clúid’s values and contributes to the mission of supporting the development of thriving communities

•            Adhering to all Clúid policies and procedures at all times

•            Exercising discretion at all times

•            Fulfilling all care and high standards regarding both Clúid’s and your own health and safety obligations

 

General

•            Adopt an approach of continuous learning and personal development

•            To positively promote the Association in all activities

•            Any other duties which are consistent with your role

 

Clúid Housing Core Competencies

•            Leadership

•            Caring

•            Responsibility   

•            Collaboration

•            Customer Centric

•            Sustainability

 

Departmental Competencies

•            Attention to Detail

•            Financial & Regulatory Acumen

•            Analytical & Problem Solving Skills

 

Person Specification

Key Skills           

Candidates will be shortlisted on the basis of illustrating in their application that they fulfil the following criteria. Examples that demonstrate the ability to fulfil the criteria should be included as well as the above competencies.

Education / Qualifications         

•            Degree level - Essential 

•            Qualified accountant and/or Risk management qualification - Essential                          

 

Knowledge / Skills         

•            I.T. skills to higher level including excel - Essential                         

•            Risk management and control environment knowledge - Essential                          

•            Attention to detail - Essential                  

•            Problem solving skills - Essential              

•            To plan and organise at organisation and personal level - Essential             

•            Ability to adapt to new IT systems -Desirable                    

•            Excellent communication skills, verbal, written, report writing, presentation - Essential              

•            Strong analytical & statistical skills - Essential     

•            Strong influencing skills - Essential                        

 

Experience        

•            Experience of working in a property orientated environment or similar SME - Desirable               

•            Experience of working in a team environment- Essential                            

•            Experience of working with senior management - Essential          

 

•            Experience of developing and managing Risk assurance - Desirable             

 

The closing date for applications to be returned for this role is Sunday 4th December 2022 at 11:59 pm.

It is anticipated that Interviews for the position will be held on Friday 16th December 2022.