Risk & Governance Consultant

Job Description

At abrdn, our purpose is to enable our clients to be better investors.

Clients worldwide trust us to find future-fit investment opportunities to deliver the outcomes they want. Our technology and insight help empower them to make better decisions, while the powerful partnerships we build help to enhance the expertise that we offer. And by enabling clients to invest responsibly, it helps us to build a better world.

About the role:

Risk & Governance consultant that is functionally aligned to UK Adviser business. The role holder will be responsible for the independent second line risk and governance activities including reporting for the Executive & Boards, supporting the CRO.

This role has responsibility for proactively supporting and delivering improvements to the Risk Governance activities and practices associated with our functional delivery of independent oversight and reporting to the Group CRO, Executive and Boards. This includes Subsidiary Board Reporting and management of Subsidiary Board Risk Appetites. The role scope is considered enterprise risk wide.

Key Responsibilities:

• Proactively support Risk Governance Activities and practices associated with our functional delivery of independent oversight and reporting to the Group CRO, Executive and the Boards.
• Take ownership of the Governance cycle through to subsidiary Board papers ensuring all reporting completed on time and with correct input from R&C partners.
• Optimise the Risk Reporting operating model through driving improvements and efficiencies including Power BI, collaborating with the team to ensure reporting shows a holistic view of the risk insights and intelligence across the team.
• Independently own and maintain Board Risk Appetite operational processes and required Board reporting, working closely with Metric owners across the Group and the Adviser Business. Collaborating with Group Framework on the Group PLC appetite refresh and ensuring consistency.
• Support the annual Board Risk Appetite review process, including workshops with the Adviser business and preparation of related Board reports.
• Operational and administrative support to Chief Risk Officer in maintenance of the Risk Governance Framework, including associated actions.
• Support strategic risk advisory activities that arise, that don’t directly align to the business i.e. strategic / transformational activities of the firm.

Contribution to the team and functional objectives and activities:

• Enhance knowledge and understanding on the use of the Enterprise Risk Management Framework, supporting our objective of raising awareness of and being advocates of the effective management of risk in achieving abrdn’s strategic objectives.
• Providing insightful analysis through thematic reviews and analysis of risk and compliance information and outputs from the use of the enterprise risk management framework, delivering a holistic view of the risk profile of the Adviser Business.

Contributing to Risk & Compliance team functional objectives and team activities:

• Build effective and collaborative relationships across the Global Risk & Compliance function to support delivery of team and functional objectives.
• Supporting the production of relevant management information.
• Promoting and encouraging a risk culture that underpins abrdn’s values and drives risk awareness and accountability within the business.
• Supporting the wider team and R&C function in the delivery of functional activities where required and where appropriate.

Skills and Experience:

• Sound understanding of the principles of risk management with knowledge of the ERMF and activities of a Risk & Compliance Function preferred.
• Effective communication & stakeholder engagement skills; ability to articulate complex concepts in an effective way.
• Strong ability to facilitate collaborative working within and across teams.
• Innovative problem solver, with the ability to simplify complex issues and innovate to deliver clear useable solutions.
• Ability to deliver in a proactive and collaborative manner for the benefit of relevant stakeholders, working independently with initiative where required.
• Degree qualified or equivalent professional experience.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer. Therefore, if you have a disability and would like to apply to one of our UK roles under the Disability Confident Scheme, please notify us by completing the relevant section in our candidate questionnaire and one of our team will reach out to support you through your application process.

Our benefits:

There’s more to working life than coming home with a good salary. We have an environment where you can learn, get involved and be supported.

When you join us, your reward will be one of the best around. This includes 40 days’ annual leave, a 16% employer pension contribution, a discretionary performance-based bonus (where applicable), private healthcare and a range of flexible benefits – including gym discounts, season ticket loans and access to an employee discount portal. You can read more about our benefits here .

Our business:

Enabling our clients to be better investors drives everything we do. Our business is structured around three distinct areas – our vectors of growth – focused on our clients’ changing needs. You can find out more about what we do here .

We’re committed to providing an inclusive workplace where all forms of difference are valued and which is free from any form of unfair or unlawful treatment. We define diversity in its broadest sense – this includes but is not limited to our diversity of educational and professional backgrounds, experience, cognitive and neurodiversity, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, religion or belief and ethnicity and geographical provenance. We support a culture that values meritocracy, fairness and transparency and welcomes enquiries from everyone. If you need assistance or an adjustment due to a disability please let us know as part of your application and we will assist.

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