Join us as a Business Controls Partner, Trade Reconstruction, VP
- If you have a risk management or regulatory background and are looking for a new challenge, this could be the ideal role for you
- You’ll partner with the business and Risk function to identify, assess and manage the risks within the agreed risk appetite, using our risk framework to inspire a team of business and customer control partners, and make sure that the team objectives are achieved
- Hone your project management and people leadership skills in this fast-paced and varied role, with an emphasis on career progression
- We’re offering this role at vice president level
In this key role, you’ll have an opportunity to make a vital contribution to driving a generative culture of risk awareness and recommend solutions to operations’ risk issues within the businesses. You’ll strengthen the level of ownership within the business, identifying and calling out areas of weakness and sharing best practices.
We’ll look to you to deliver a robust risk governance framework in line with the operational risk handbook, as well as supporting and delivering relevant risk activity to build credible and realistic plans to move and sustain a control environment certification rating within risk appetite.
Day-to-day, you’ll be:
- Escalating emerging risks in a timely manner, making sure actions are quickly defined and owned
- Developing and delivering a strong risk awareness across the business, contributing to the prioritisation, design and implementation of the operational risk principles into the business
- Implementing a robust governance framework that engages all relevant stakeholders to enable effective decision making and make sure that all aspects of risk management are delivered
- Supporting primary accountable risk owners and responsible risk leads in their identification and assessment of the policy framework
- Coaching and supporting colleagues across the bank to improve understanding and embed a culture of intelligent risk taking
- Educating teams on the policy framework and the roles and responsibilities framework
- Creating a culture of continuous improvement, increasing efficiency and productivity through great people leadership, coaching, engagement and development of skills
We’re looking for a highly skilled leader with experience of Policy Framework. With a strong understanding of our operating processes, you’ll need general and project management skills involving complex people, process and technology issues, along with a proven understanding and practical application of risk management principles. You’ll also need well developed knowledge of our businesses and associated products, processes and technologies.
On top of this, you’ll bring:
- Strong senior stakeholder management skills
- A well-developed network of contacts with a clear track record of delivery
- Influencing and conflict resolution skills, with the ability to view the impact of issues from a wider or macro perspective
- The ability to think creatively when resolving problems and identify alternatives where established procedures may not exist
- The ability to assess a mid-market mark with excellent Excel skills
- Basic product knowledge and associated nomenclature such as knowing the difference between a straddle and a strangle or an FX Swap to a XCCY Swap
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45Job Posting Closing Date:
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What We Do
We’re a business that understands when our customers and people succeed, our communities succeed, and our economy thrives. As part of our purpose, we’re looking at how we can drive change for our communities in enterprise, learning and climate. As one of the leading supporters of UK business, we’re prioritising enterprise as a force of change. We’re focusing on the people and communities who have traditionally faced the highest barriers to entry and figuring out ways to remove these. Learning is also key to our continued growth as a company in an ever changing and increasingly digital world. By setting a dynamic and leading learning culture, our people prosper, and our customers are given the tools to continue to improve their financial capability and confidence. One of the biggest challenges we all face in our future is climate change. That’s why we’ve put it right at the core of our purpose. We want to champion climate solutions with financing and entrepreneurial support, fully embed climate into our culture and decision making, and be climate positive by 2025. We’re committed to using our purpose to break down barriers, drive change and ultimately create a great place to work.
