Senior Risk Manager - Controls Assurance

In this role your duties will include, but not necessarily be limited to, the following:

• Responsible for a portfolio consisting of business units within Business Bank and accountable for relationships with GM's/GM-1 or delegates.
• Ensures assurance and monitoring programmes are aligned to and support the Group Risk strategy and Compliance target areas
• Provide 2nd line assurance over high and medium rated operational risks and compliance obligations
• Provide 2nd line assurance over the delivered risk (i.e. to-be controls) of high rated projects
• Deliver assurance opinion for designated portfolio, working collaboratively with relevant colleagues.
• Influence enterprise leaders to embed risk monitoring & control practices.
• Commitment to co-ordinate, maintain and deliver the annual assurance plan as approved by Divisional Risk and Compliance Committees
• Review all review reports issued to stakeholders to ensure alignment with Risk and Compliance Assurance Manual requirements and delivery of appropriate insight and conclusions.
• Develop and maintain customer relationships to General Manager level.
• Identify issue and report trends, including root cause analysist of issues to support input in quarterly General Manager and divisional Risk and Compliance Committee reports.
• Leads, develops and sustains a high-performing Controls Assurance team
• Act as a people leader for team; providing frequent feedback and professional guidance, delivering annual appraisals, ongoing coaching, providing individual career development opportunities.
• Oversees and manages individual assurance activities when necessary, delivering an assurance opinion in final report.
• Leads the external audit and Group Audit relationships to achieve a coordinated and integrated programme of assurance.