Risk Business Partner in Cheadle

Working Hours: Standard (09:00am-17:30pm)

Department: Group Risk

Office or Field Based: Office Based (Cheadle, SK8 3GW)

Contract type: Fixed Term

Company Description: Fixed Term Contract for 18 months based on site in Cheadle (SK8 3GW) - Monday to Friday. 26 days holiday, and a day off for your birthday (increasing with service to 30 days), plus bank holidays. Free access to company holiday homes. Buy & sell holidays. Discretionary annual bonus plus an additional Shared Reward Bonus. Life assurance and Critical illness cover. Travel season ticket loans and Ride to work scheme. Free local gym access. Local bar / restaurant discounts.

We’re Together. For over 50 years, we’ve helped thousands of people, businesses and professionals unlock their property ambitions with our common-sense approach to mortgages and secured loans. We take the time to understand our customers and our door is always open, so we can often help when other lenders can’t or won’t. Based in Cheadle, Cheshire, our 900 colleagues help our customers throughout the UK, backed by the power of a £7.8 billion loan book.

Job Description: On an 18 month fixed term contract, you will be working within our highly experienced First Line Risk Team and reporting to our Risk Lead. You will be a true trusted business partner working across an 'Operations' portfolio and supporting business change activities alike as we implement a business wide Tech transformation. As part of the 1st Line Risk Team you will support both regulated and non-regulated mortgage business activities providing appropriate training, support, assistance and advice in order to empower effective risk management. You will offer oversight to your business areas in order to determine the level of risk management maturity and if applicable, to identify more targeted areas of further support required such as operational, conduct and compliance risk types.

Responsibilities include (but not limited to) the following:

• Support, train, challenge and oversight of business: RCSAs, Incidents, Root cause analysis.
• Support in maximising the utilisation and benefits of the Group ERMF toolkit in order to manage risk effectively, consistently and transparently.
• Provide risk insight and divisional risk profiles to HODs in order to support/challenge prioritisation and focus on a risk basis.
• Provide consolidated reporting to the centralised 1st Line Risk Report submission to Risk Committees.
• Support the wider business transformation program in the design and development of effective risk controls.
• Triage and submit through governance proposed business risk acceptances as a first line challenge and advisory support.
• Support in the review, definition and execution of business area KRIs, informing early indication of risk exposure for treatment.
• Providing regular feedback and reporting of the maturity and risk profile of business areas.
• Support with the continual development of the 1st Line Risk operating model.
• Support with the conducting of periodic ‘risk assessments’ in order to inform assurance planning.
• Support in the design and delivery of risk training across the business.

Qualifications: Candidates with a blend of the following skills will be highly regarded:

• Experience within a 1st line Risk role.
• Has a passion for true partnering, collaboration and developing strong relationships with stakeholders.
• Has designed effective controls for regulated processes.
• Have designed effective controls within a Financial Services business or similar regulated industry.
• Understands Operational challenges and how to support this from a first line risk perspective.
• Has worked within a three lines of defence model.
• Understanding of risk management and how to effectively document and review RSCAs, incidents, risk metrics etc.
• Has experience in using risk management system solutions.
• Has experience practicing risk against an established enterprise risk management framework.
• Has experience in ‘transformation’ programmes (preferable).

Additional Information: If you feel you have some of the skills mentioned above, but not all, please do still apply and we would be happy to have a further discussion with you in regards to your suitability for the role. Together embraces diversity and inclusion, and are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Not only do we welcome difference – we celebrate it, support it and really value our colleagues for who they are. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills. If you feel you'd benefit from any support or reasonable adjustments during any stage of the recruitment process, please don’t hesitate to let us know when completing your application. This information will be picked up by our team, so we can try and put steps in place to help you be at your best through this process. Please note that all successful applicants will undergo relevant employment reference, financial and criminal record checks.