TEKsystems
Senior Risk & Controls Specialist (Evergreening)
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Senior Risk & Controls Specialist (Evergreening)
Senior Risk & Control Specialist (Evergreening)
Job Title: Senior Risk & Control Specialist (Evergreening)
Location
Sheffield, UK
Job Overview
This role focuses on Technology Snr Risk and Control Specialist, ensuring appropriate Technology risk management. The specialist will protect the organisation by capturing and managing risks, understanding potential sources of loss (e.g., Financial, Customer) in a cost-effective manner with a specialist focus on Evergreening and Technology Risk Management.
Responsibilities
Core Responsibilities
- Operate the Global Evergreening Control, including the design, execution model, and continuous improvement to ensure effectiveness and audit-readiness.
- Drive end-to-end implementation of the evergreening framework:
- Set adoption standards.
- Define success measures, track delivery.
- Remove blockers.
- Ensure closure of gaps through agreed remediation plans.
- Provide oversight of framework implementation, monitoring adoption progress, identifying risks and gaps, and driving remediation or escalation as necessary.
- Act as the senior point of accountability for stakeholder alignment, including securing decisions, negotiating trade-offs, and maintaining commitment from business and technology leaders.
- Lead governance updates in RCMs (Risk Control Matrices)/RCMMs (Risk Control Management and Monitoring), escalate issues where necessary, and ensure actions have clear owners, Deadlines, and measurable outcomes.
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Key Accountabilities
- Accountable for timely identification and remediation of Evergreening control gaps, including formal escalation when delivery is at risk.
- Accountable for ensuring control evidence remains complete, consistent, and audit-ready.
- Accountable for clear communication of residual risk, control performance, and emerging themes to senior Technology and Risk leadership.
Requirements
Experience & Mindset
- Demonstrated ownership mindset: setting direction, driving closure, and holding stakeholders accountable for delivery.
- Ability to lead through influence in a matrix environment, including making hard calls and appropriate escalation.
- Experience in shaping governance narratives for senior leadership, turning complex risk/control data into decisions and actions.
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People & Leadership Skills
- Experience in:
- People leadership.
- Functional leadership (e.g., leading virtual teams, mentoring, capability uplift).
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills at senior levels.
Domain Knowledge
- Knowledge of regulatory requirements for Operational Resilience (e.g., BSI ISO 22318, ** Cinema Operating Standards (COS)**).
- Bachelor’s degree (or demonstrable experience in) Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field.
- Advanced degree or relevant certifications (e.g., CRISC, CISM, CISA) are preferred.
Skills
- Risk & Controls
- Control framework
- Technology Risk
- Evergreening
- Risk Management
- Technology Risk Management
Additional Information
Job Type: Contract Rate/Salary: £500.00 - £600.00 GBP daily
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