Senior Risk

New role subject to consultation

Contract type: Permanent

Hours: Full-time, 35 hours

Location: Head Office, Nottingham (Hybrid working, minimum 2 days per week)

We're building a new First Line Risk & Compliance team — and we need an inspiring Senior Manager to help shape it from the ground up. You'll lead and develop a small team, guide how we embed strong risk behaviours across the organisation, and play a pivotal role in creating a confident, empowered first line that truly owns and manages its risks. If you thrive on influencing culture, supporting leaders, and turning complexity into clarity, this is an opportunity to make a real, visible impact.

Here's a taste of what you will be doing as a Senior Risk and Compliance Manager at Nottingham Building Society:

• Leading and developing a high-performing first line risk & compliance team, shaping capability, confidence and culture.
• Acting as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, helping them understand risks, make well-informed decisions, and role-model strong risk behaviours.
• Driving the establishment and maturity of the new First Line Risk & Compliance function, ensuring clear roles, proactive engagement, and effective ways of working.
• Turning complex regulatory requirements into simple, practical guidance that helps the business operate safely without slowing it down.
• Championing a strong, consistent risk culture — supporting teams across the organisation to own their risks, strengthen controls and learn from issues.
• Leading insight-driven risk reporting that brings clarity, highlights themes, and strengthens governance.
• Guiding incident and issue management, ensuring high-quality root cause analysis and a focus on continuous improvement.
• Supporting major change and transformation programmes to ensure risks are understood early and managed well.
• Building trusted, collaborative relationships across the first and second lines to ensure alignment and confident decision-making.

About you:

• Strong knowledge of financial services regulatory requirements, with the ability to translate complex rules into practical, business-ready controls that genuinely help the business operate confidently and safely.
• Proven leadership experience — able to develop talent, shape a new team, and foster a positive, proactive risk culture rooted in partnership rather than policing.
• Outstanding stakeholder and relationship skills, with the credibility to influence senior leaders, coach teams, and build trusted, collaborative partnerships across the organisation.
• A strategic mindset with strong attention to detail, able to spot patterns, themes and emerging risks, then turn insights into actions teams can actually use.
• A calm, solutions-focused approach, especially during incidents or high-stakes decisions, bringing clarity and confidence to complex situations.
• Integrity, curiosity and a passion for growing risk capability, helping colleagues feel empowered, not burdened, by good risk and compliance practice.

Reward & Benefits:

• A fair and competitive salary evaluated against market data, annual discretionary bonus scheme, Car Allowance, Medicash healthcare scheme, 29 days annual leave plus.