Yorkshire Building Society
Governance & Enablement Lead
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Governance & Enablement Lead
Play a pivotal role in embedding effective governance within Yorkshire Building Society. This is a high-impact role combining hands-on delivery engagement, governance leadership and decision-support capability, with strong exposure to senior stakeholders. You’ll enable confident, timely decision-making while driving consistency, control and quality across delivery.
About the role
The Governance & Enablement Lead is accountable for embedding and operating the change delivery governance framework within a portfolio, ensuring delivery is controlled, compliant and supported by high-quality insight.
- Own and embed the enterprise change governance framework across your assigned portfolio, ensuring consistent application of standards, controls and delegated authority, and providing assurance to senior stakeholders on governance effectiveness.
- Lead governance forums and reporting to enable effective decision-making, including designing and operating Steering Committees, producing high-quality materials and articulating clear options, risks and trade-offs.
- Partner across delivery, reporting and risk functions to ensure joined-up governance, strong control adherence and consistent, high-quality insight across milestones, risks, issues, dependencies and financials.
About you
You are a highly credible governance and delivery professional, with strong experience operating in complex change environments and a focus on enabling effective, controlled delivery through high-quality governance and insight.
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- Proven experience operating portfolio-level governance and reporting within a complex delivery environment, with strong understanding of frameworks, controls and assurance in practice.
- Strong technical capability in governance forums, reporting, dashboards and decision-support material, with the ability to translate complex delivery data into clear, actionable insight.
- Proven ability to influence and coach delivery teams and senior stakeholders in a regulated environment, embedding governance standards and enabling effective, timely decision-making.
About us
At YBS we don’t have shareholders, we have members. We care about people and that includes you. So here, you’ll be respected for who you are, you’ll be able to bring your whole self to work, and you’ll have everything you need to build a long and rewarding career.
- Flexibility. We offer a range of flexible working options without unsocial hours, which can help you find a healthy work-life balance. Whether it’s finishing early for an appointment or fitting your studies and hobbies in around your working hours, we can help make it work for you. We’re happy to talk flexible working and you can reach out to us anytime to discuss this during the recruitment process.
- Development. We want you to feel challenged here. Whatever your ambitions, we’re committed to helping you develop your skills and move ahead in your career journey. From day one, we’ll set you up for success with a brilliant induction and full training plan, all designed to get you up to speed quickly.
- Inclusivity. We’re passionate about creating an inclusive environment where everyone is welcome and able to be themselves. If you’ll go the extra mile to help our members, you’ll fit right in and feel you belong here.
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About our Benefits
We offer lots of fantastic rewards that you can make the most of in and out of work, including:
- Holiday. You’ll get 25 days plus Bank Holidays, as well as the option to buy up to a further 5 days.
- Bonus. At YBS we work collaboratively and share in our success together, so when we reach our goals we’re all rewarded with an on target bonus of 7% of eligible pay (with the opportunity to earn up to a maximum 15%).
- Pension. We know how important it is to save towards the future, that’s why we’ll contribute up 11% into your YBS pension.
- Healthcare. Health and wellbeing are an important part of life at YBS, when you join us you’ll have access to a range of health benefits to suit your life including private medical insurance, dental and healthcare plans.
- My Benefits. When you join YBS you’ll have access to our self-service benefits portal, where you can access a range of retail, hospitality and health discounts.
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If you’re excited about this role and want to be part of the YBS team, click apply now to send us your application.
Want more information?
If you have any questions about this role, please contact careers@ybs.co.uk
Please note: This advert will close 27th July
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