At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead records management initiatives and ensure compliance across the bank.
- Company: Join a dynamic bank focused on innovation and collaboration.
- Benefits: Flexible working hours, competitive salary, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Great exposure to senior stakeholders and a chance to drive meaningful change.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by shaping records management in a fast-paced environment.
- Qualifications: MSc in Records Management and experience in financial services required.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
Join us as a Lead Records Management Specialist. Take on a new challenge and use your specialist knowledge to support the wider bank in building and operating records management services that protect both colleagues and customers.
You’ll act as a subject matter expert in records and information management, building it into design early. You’ll be joining an exciting and fast-paced area of the bank, where you can expect great exposure both for you and your work. This role is available as either full time, reduced hours or part time with a minimum of 28 working hours.
What you’ll do:
- Work at a domain level to understand and ensure robust records management is continuously considered and incorporated at every stage, programme increment and feature team delivery throughout the development lifecycle and through to support.
- Collaborate with risk and control teams and participate in defining change, establishing a culture of innovation and strategic thinking that ensures the bank has knowledge of, and opportunities to exploit, the latest developments in your area of specialism.
- Make sure that decisions made are based on robust data, return on investment and value measures that demonstrate thoughtful and intelligent cost management.
- Encourage the identification of ideas and drive the delivery of initiatives that will reduce cost and simplify the bank.
- Build and leverage relationships with colleagues across the bank and third parties to ensure decisions made are commercially focused and create long term value for the bank.
The skills you’ll need:
- Proven experience of supporting complex change to business processes and systems in financial services.
- Ability to find pragmatic solutions to help accelerate delivery.
- Experience of effectively managing direct reports while also influencing and leading cross‑functional teams within a matrix environment.
- An MSc in Records Management or Records Management & Archive Administration, along with substantial experience of working in the field.
- Ability to communicate complex technical and records management principles clearly in business terms, translating issues into measurable outcomes, while effectively engaging and managing stakeholders across the bank.
- Analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Willingness to stay abreast of change and innovation in technology and record-keeping practices.
- Specialist knowledge of creating and managing records retention schedules.
- Thorough grounding in the interpretation of global laws and regulations that build a retention schedule.
- Ability to challenge constructively at a senior level in the bank and hold risk owners to account.
Lead Records Management Specialist employer: NatWest Group
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