Head of Enterprise Risk

Head of Enterprise Risk

What You Will Do

As Head of Enterprise Risk, you will provide strategic leadership and oversight of the Bank’s Enterprise and Operational Risk Management Frameworks, ensuring risks are effectively identified, assessed, monitored and managed across the organisation.

You will play a key role in promoting a strong risk culture, delivering robust risk governance and reporting, and providing independent challenge to support informed decision‑making.

• Overseeing the Enterprise and Operational Risk Management Frameworks, policies and standards, ensuring they remain effective and aligned to regulatory expectations.
• Leading the Bank’s risk governance arrangements, including committee structures, escalation processes and the effective operation of the Three Lines Model.
• Designing and maintaining the Risk Appetite Framework, including risk appetite statements, metrics and reporting.
• Delivering insightful enterprise and non‑financial risk reporting to senior management and risk committees.
• Driving risk policy governance, fostering a strong risk culture and overseeing the Bank’s GRC system and risk MI.
• Leading operational risk inputs to ICAAP and supporting external risk disclosures.
• Overseeing the Bank’s approach to Material Controls under the UK Corporate Governance Code 2024.
• Leading the framework for climate risk management and regulatory compliance.
• Providing risk oversight and challenge for strategic transformation and change initiatives.
• Managing the Second Line Risk Assurance Programme, ensuring effective assurance activity and timely remediation of findings.
• Leading and developing a high‑performing Enterprise Risk team while providing expert advice and challenge to senior stakeholders.
• Any other duties as reasonably required within the role.
• What you will need
• Senior experience in enterprise, operational or non‑financial risk within regulated UK financial services.
• Experience leading a specialist risk team or function.
• Experience owning or overseeing risk frameworks, appetite, governance, controls, reporting and assurance.
• Experience advising, challenging and presenting to senior executives and risk committees.
• Experience leading cross‑functional risk initiatives, programmes or remediation activity.
• Experience interpreting regulatory expectations and embedding practical risk‑management requirements.
• Enterprise and operational risk frameworks, including appetite, governance, controls, reporting, assurance and issues management.
• UK banking regulation and supervisory expectations for enterprise, operational and non‑financial risk.
• Three lines of defence model, including second line oversight, challenge and assurance.
• Risk systems, MI and reporting used to support governance and decision‑making.
• Understand the risks associated with your job and what that means for you, Metro Bank and all our stakeholders.
• Our promise to you
• We will make sure that you are well‑rewarded by providing you a competitive salary, discretionary annual bonus, and a wide range of benefits, including generous holiday allowance, attractive pension scheme, healthcare, life assurance and colleague discounts.
• We will give you the training to ensure you succeed in your role and plenty of internal opportunities to progress your career (around 40% of our recruitment comes from internal promotions!).
• Important Footnote

Diverse teams really are the best teams.

We know that candidates (especially women, research tells us) may be put off applying for a job unless they can tick every box.

We also know that ‘normal’ office hours aren’t always doable, and while we can’t accommodate every flexible working request we are happy to be asked.

So if you are excited about working with us and think you can do much of what we are looking for but aren’t sure if you are 100% there yet… why not give it a whirl?

Good luck!

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