Novatus
Senior Manager - Risk & Resilience
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Senior Manager - Risk & Resilience
Senior Manager – Risk, Regulatory & Operational Resilience (Financial Services)
About the Role
Novatus are seeking a versatile, highly skilled, and experienced Senior Manager to lead the delivery of complex risk, regulatory, and operational resilience engagements across Financial Services.
You will:
- Work closely with senior leadership and client executives
- Take full ownership of client engagements, shaping, delivering, and embedding practical, high-impact solutions
- Focus on risk management, regulatory change, compliance, and resilience frameworks
Operating with high autonomy, you will lead multiple workstreams or programmes, act as a trusted client advisor, and drive sustainable regulatory and risk outcomes. Your expertise will be pivotal in ensuring clients navigate evolving regulatory demands while fostering operational excellence.
Additionally, you will:
- Play a key role in growing client accounts, identifying, validating, and enrolling new opportunities
- Support strategic account development
- Contribute to cultural shaping within Novatus, including people development, leadership development, and internal strategy
Key Responsibilities
Client Delivery & Engagement Ownership
- Own the end-to-end delivery of risk and regulatory projects/programmes, managing scope, timelines, commercials, and senior stakeholder interactions
- Serve as a trusted advisor on regulatory expectations, risk management practices, and operational resilience requirements
- Lead the design, enhancement, and implementation of:
- Risk management frameworks
- Governance structures
- Control environments
- Deliver operational resilience programmes, including:
- Scenario testing
- Impact tolerance assessment
- Important business services (IBS) mapping
- Remediation planning
- Support clients in responding to regulatory change, ensuring adherence to evolving regulatory requirements and industry standards
- Conduct deep-dive assessments across:
- Risk
- Compliance
- Controls
- Operational processes
- Translate regulatory requirements into practical, actionable solutions and transformation roadmaps
- Oversee cross-functional teams for successful delivery and sustainable embedding of regulatory and risk initiatives
- Proactively identify and manage risks, dependencies, and issues across engagements
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Risk, Regulation & Resilience Expertise
- Apply deep expertise in risk and regulation to guide clients through complex regulatory environments
- Lead the development of resilience frameworks aligned with regulatory expectations (FCA, PRA, EU standards)
- Support:
- Design and optimisation of Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) frameworks (risk appetite, controls, reporting)
- Regulatory gap assessments
- Compliance reviews
- Remediation programs
- Utilise data and analytics for risk insights, monitoring, and decision support
Business Development & Account Growth
- Build strong client relationships and actively contribute to account expansion
- Identify, validate, and shape new opportunities within existing client accounts
- Collaborate on strategic account plans with Novatus leadership
- Lead:
- Proposal development
- Client pitches
- Thought leadership initiatives
Leadership & People Development
- Lead, coach, and mentor Managers and junior team members, fostering development
- Provide performance feedback and cultivate a high-performing, inclusive team culture
- Actively contribute to building future leadership within the firm
Internal & Cultural Contribution
- Drive and participate in internal initiatives, including:
- Learning & Development
- Market insights
- Innovation and thought leadership
- Support the development of firm culture, values, and collaborative working practices
- Contribute to the improvement of methodologies, tools, and delivery approaches
Why Join Us?
Impact & Growth
- Work across disciplines (no siloed specialisation) to build a broader, versatile skillset
- Solve high-impact, complex challenges where your contributions create tangible change
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Culture & Collaboration
- Flat, visible hierarchy: Collaborate directly with senior leaders and specialists
- Open communication: Your insights are valued, and progress is tangible
- Ownership mentality: Ideal for drivers and builders with a results-focused approach
Rewarding Workforce Benefits
- Private Medical Insurance (includes mental health, dental care, vision, and performance GP access)
- Life Insurance: 4× salary (via Unum)
- Unum’s Help@Hand:
- GP access
- Medical second opinions
- Physiotherapy
- Lifestyle coaching
- Savings/Discounts
- Bereavement counselling & cancer support for you, your partner, and children
- Salary sacrifice childcare & nursery scheme (via YellowNest)
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Enhanced parental leave (maternity & paternity)
- Professional qualification sponsorship
- Accelerated career progression (based on readiness and performance, not tenure)
- Increasing holiday entitlement with tenure
- Flexible hours with scheduled core collaboration time
- Paid volunteering leave
- Gym & fitness discounts
- Bi-annual socials
- Office snacks & drinks
- Interest-based working groups for innovation and collaboration
Optional Statement
Equal Opportunities
Novatus embraces diversity and inclusion. All hiring decisions are based on business needs, role requirements, and individual qualifications, without discrimination. We adhere to fairness and equality across recruitment, compensation, development, and workplace conduct.
- Reasonable adjustments are available for applicants at every stage.
- Inclusive workplace culture — respectful, supportive, and committed to equity.
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