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About the role
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our Corporate Functions Risk team as a Risk & Controls Lead. You will be responsible for supporting and embedding all risk and controls activity across the Corporate Functions. This includes enhancing the functions’ risk maturity through ensuring compliance with required policies and standards, improving risk awareness & risk culture and production of key risk reporting.
What you’ll be doing
- Facilitate the RCSA process across all corporate functions, including continual development of RCSA quality.
- Support with the delivery of risk maturity activities, monitoring and reporting progress against action plans, and escalating concerns.
- Support the embedding and enhancement of Risk Culture across the corporate functions.
- Maintain the administration and reporting of risk appetite metrics, providing commentary and working with key stakeholders to take action as required.
- Support all areas in managing their risk events and conducting root cause analysis
- Work with the Corporate functions to evolve their control environment in support of their risk profiles
- Support the development of risk and control reporting to various SLTs across the corporate functions, providing insight and thematic analysis as well as identifying changes in the various risk profiles.
- Using Risk Experience to provide training and education across the corporate functions on all parts of the ERMF as necessary to evolve understanding.
- Deputise for Senior Risk Manager as required at SLTs, with 2nd & 3rd Line and at Risk Maturity Working Groups.
About you
- Prior experience within Risk and Controls, preferably within the Financial Services Industry.
- Strong knowledge of enterprise risk management, risk frameworks and regulatory requirements.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, able to build effective relationships at all levels, skilled at influencing, negotiating and managing challenging conversations with ease.
- Ability to work, and be resilient, in a fast paced and changeable environment.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills with ability to distil complex concepts into common language.
- Proactive and motivated to drive continuous improvement across the risk framework and business areas
Interview process
This will be a 2-stage interview process, consisting of competency and behavioural questions, and an assessment task.
Working Schedule
This role is based in Bristol head office, BS1 5HL. We offer a hybrid flexible working pattern allowing flexibility of working from home and working in the office.
Why us?
Here at HL, we’re the UK’s number 1 investment platform for private investors, based in Bristol. For more than 40 years we’ve helped investors save time, tax and money on their investments.
To achieve our mission, we believe we have a workplace like no other, with constant learning, dynamic teams, and a great ethos. We're steered by core values that promote service, quality, innovation, and opportunity in everything we do.
What's on offer?
- Discretionary annual bonus*and annual pay review
- 25 days* holiday plus bank holidays and 1-day additional Christmas closure
- Option to purchase an additional 5 days holiday**
- Flexible working options available, including hybrid working
- Enhanced parental leave
- Pension scheme up to 11% employer contribution
- Income Protection and Life insurance (4 x salary core level of cover)
- Private medical insurance*
- Health care cash plans - including optical, dental, and outpatient care
- Health screening programme
- Help@hand- confidential support including mental health counselling and remote GP
- Wellhub - unlimited access to fitness providers and wellness coach sessions
- Variety of travel to work schemes with bike storage and shower facilities
- Inhouse barista and deli serving subsidised coffee and sandwiches
- Two paid volunteering days per year
* dependant on role level
** only available to select during our annual benefits window, in November each year
Hargreaves Lansdown is an inclusive employer that values diversity in its workforce. We encourage applications from all individuals without regard to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or age.
This role may also be available on a flexible working or part time basis – please ask the Recruitment & Onboarding team for more information.
Please note, we are unable to provide employment sponsorship to candidates.
