Business Risk Partner, Customer

Join us as a Business Risk Partner, CustomerPartner with senior business leaders to identify, assess, manage and report risk, supporting strategic objectives within risk appetite and a robust control environmentYou’ll provide insight, constructive challenge and practical support across risk appetite, control effectiveness, governance, regulatory change and business transformationBuild valuable relationships across the organisation while helping shape a strong, proactive and commercially focused risk cultureWhat you’ll doIn this role, you’ll partner with Business Banking (BB) & Commercial Mid-Market (CMM) leaders to support safe and sustainable growth through effective management of customer outcome, conduct and control risks.Your work will focus on:Building strong relationships across the Three Lines of Defence and specialist teams, enabling effective risk conversations and collaborative problem-solvingMaintaining a clear and forward-looking view of the risk profile, connecting themes across controls, issues, events, governance and management informationProviding constructive challenge on business activities, products, services and change initiatives to support sustainable growth and customer outcomesLeading or supporting the remediation of risks outside appetite, control weaknesses and audit or regulatory actions, making sure sustainable solutions are implementedPartnering with BB & CMM to identify, assess and manage customer outcome, conduct and control risks, supporting business objectives within risk appetiteSupporting first-line oversight of customer outcome and conduct risks, including Consumer Duty, Improper Products and Services, and Customer Mistreatment and Service Failures, helping secure effective controls, governance and customer outcomesWorking with the Complaints lead to address underlying risk and control issues, so remediation is effective, accountability is clear and lessons learned are embedded into business-as-usual activityThe skills you'll needWe’re looking for someone with Significant experience in business risk management, conduct risk, Consumer Duty, customer outcomes, complaints, product governance and control management within financial services. You’ll bring strong understanding of the EWRMF and practical experience applying risk appetite, RCSA, control effectiveness, issue management and risk event frameworks. Experience operating within a complex regulated environment, translating policy, regulatory and framework requirements into practical business outcomes and informed risk decisions is also essential.You'll play an important role in fostering a proactive risk culture, driving simplification and strengthening risk and control practices across the business.You’ll demonstrate:The ability to identify emerging and interconnected risks, draw insights from risk data and translate complex information into clear business recommendationsExperience influencing senior stakeholders, providing constructive challenge and building trusted business relationshipsStrong analytical, written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to produce clear risk reporting and governance materialsA proven track record of simplifying processes and driving continuous improvement across risk management practicesExperience using complaints insight, customer outcome MI, issues, events, control testing and business data to identify root causes, themes and required management actionHours35Job Posting Closing Date:11/09/2026Ways of Working:HybridSummaryLocation: Birmingham; Manchester; Edinburgh; LondonType: Full time