Michael Page
Senior Risk & Controls Analyst
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Senior Risk & Controls Analyst
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Risk & Controls Analyst to join a growing and ambitious organisation, reporting directly to the Head of Internal Audit & Risk. This role offers significant ownership and visibility, allowing you to shape the risk and control environment whilst driving meaningful business improvement.
Client Details
You will play a pivotal role in developing and enhancing the organisation's Governance, Risk and Compliance framework, partnering with stakeholders across the business to strengthen controls, improve reporting and influence better decision-making.
Our client is an extremely ambitious family office, growing at rapid pace through an exciting number of acquisitions and aggressive growth plans. Operating within a regulated environment, they are committed to maintaining a robust control framework, whilst also maintaining a pace of protected growth and revenue generation due to the constant evolution of the business.
The organisation offers the opportunity to work closely with senior leadership, contribute to strategic initiatives and gain exposure to a broad range of risk, compliance and governance activities - with genuine buy in to assurance activities from the family.
Description
- Own and continuously enhance the organisation's Risk and Control Framework, including risk registers, control libraries and risk self-assessments.
- Manage and improve the Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) platform, ensuring data integrity, effective workflows and user engagement.
- Design and strengthen controls that effectively mitigate risk and support business objectives.
- Monitor key risk indicators, control effectiveness and emerging risks, escalating concerns where appropriate.
- Produce insightful risk reporting and dashboards for senior management, committees and Board-level stakeholders.
- Support regulatory compliance activities and assess the impact of emerging regulatory developments.
- Act as a key liaison between management, audit, compliance and external stakeholders.
- Analyse risk and operational data to identify trends, control weaknesses and improvement opportunities.
- Drive remediation activities through to completion, ensuring accountability and timely resolution of issues.
- Deliver training and guidance to stakeholders to increase adoption and understanding of risk management practices.
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Profile
- Experience within risk, controls, operational risk, governance or a related discipline within an industry or practice environment
- Experience designing and implementing internal controls
- Previous experience administering a GRC platform and supporting risk management frameworks.
- Understanding of risk and control methodologies such as COSO, Three Lines Model or similar.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities with the ability to interpret complex information.
- Experience improving processes, controls and reporting environments.
- Excellent communication skills with the confidence to engage and influence stakeholders at all levels.
- Professional qualifications such as IRM, ICA or equivalent would be advantageous.
- Experience within a regulated environment, particularly financial services, would be highly advantageous.
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Job Offer
- Salary circa £55,000 per annum
- £6,900 annual travel allowance
- Annual discretionary bonus of up to two months' salary
- Primarily remote role with occasional UK travel (candidates will preferably be midlands based as so as to be geographically central)
- 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Private Medical Insurance (family cover)
- Life Assurance at 5x salary
- Group Income Protection
- Group Critical Illness Cover
- Car discount scheme
- Significant exposure to senior leadership and the UK board
- Opportunity to take ownership of a critical risk management framework
- Broad and varied role offering excellent development within risk, governance and compliance - working within a constantly evolving organisation
- Clear opportunity to enhance technical and stakeholder management skills
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