Albany Beck
Senior Business Manager - Enterprise Risk
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Senior Business Manager – Enterprise Risk Management & Transformation
Location: London – Hybrid
The Role
Albany Beck is looking for an experienced Senior Business Manager to join a major global Investment Bank, supporting a senior leadership function within Enterprise Risk Management.
This is a broad, highly visible role sitting close to senior Risk leadership and spanning strategic planning, business management, performance, financial management, governance, operating model evolution, and organisational effectiveness. You’ll be working across a large and complex Risk environment, helping leadership translate strategic priorities into clear plans, identify what is coming next, and ensure the function is set up to respond effectively.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Lead and coordinate annual and strategic business planning across a major Enterprise Risk function.
- Support forward-looking planning, identifying emerging priorities, regulatory requirements, dependencies, and areas requiring leadership attention.
- Translate strategic objectives into clear plans, priorities, and actionable management activities.
- Own the function’s performance management rhythm, providing senior leaders with meaningful MI and insight.
- Develop executive-level reporting, briefing materials, and analysis to support decision-making.
- Coordinate senior governance forums, ensuring actions, decisions, and follow-ups are effectively managed.
- Support financial management, including budgets, forecasting, resource planning, and analysis of cost drivers.
- Contribute to Target Operating Model, organisational design, and restructuring initiatives.
- Help shape roles, accountabilities, governance structures, and ways of working across the Risk organisation.
- Support communications, training, and capability planning across the function.
- Work across Risk, Finance, HR, Operations, and other senior stakeholders to ensure priorities remain aligned.
- Provide constructive challenge and identify areas where leadership intervention may be required.
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What We’re Looking For
We’re looking for someone who has operated as a Senior Business Manager, Chief of Staff, COO, Business Planning Lead, or equivalent within a complex financial services environment. You’ll ideally bring:
- Strong Financial Services / Banking experience, preferably within a large, complex institution.
- Experience working within Risk, Enterprise Risk, a COO function, or senior leadership office.
- Strong strategic and annual planning experience.
- Proven experience across performance management, MI, and executive reporting.
- Strong financial management, budgeting, and forecasting capability.
- Experience supporting operating model or organisational design initiatives.
- Excellent senior stakeholder management and communication skills.
- The ability to analyse complex information and turn it into clear, commercially relevant insight.
- A pragmatic, hands-on approach with the ability to operate independently and manage multiple priorities.
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Experience across any of the following would be highly advantageous:
- Enterprise Risk Management
- Risk Transformation
- Chief of Staff / COO environments
- Target Operating Model
- Organisational Design
- Regulatory or risk-driven transformation
- ESG or Model Risk
- Management consulting within Financial Services
This is an opportunity to join a large-scale, strategically important Risk environment and work directly with senior leadership across a broad business management portfolio. You’ll have genuine visibility across the organisation, with the opportunity to influence planning, operating model, financial management, governance, and the future direction of the Risk function.
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