Risk and Controls Specialist
Are you looking for a new challenge with a focus on product risk to both customer and business alike?
My client is a European FTSE listed financial services business with a reputable brand. The business promotes development within each department and strives for high performance and meritocracy throughout it's business units.
The opportunity sits within a brand new area of the business which has been grown and developed over the past year to help monitor new retail products that are integrated and sold to customers. Internal Governance ensures a strong risk and control environment is maintained, adopting process and control reviews to analyse risks and evaluate control effectiveness, undertaking deep dive or other targeted reviews, coordinating with key business stakeholders, and carrying out other activities, as directed by the Head of Internal Governance and Control. Therefore this role predominantly focuses on understanding and mitigating risk on retail products that are sold to the customer.
Due to risk based nature of the position. It is highly desirable that the successful candidate comes from an audit (external or internal) or controls based background with a strong understanding and previous experience of banking retail products.
Experience/Requirements (UK or UK related experience is essential)
- 2:1 degree or equivalent together with excellent GCSE A-Level grades
- 3 years+ experience of working in an assurance / control-related function, e.g. Risk, Audit, Compliance, ideally in the financial services sector
- Industry and regulatory awareness, with good understand of Retail banking products services
- Experience of developing and implementing risk-based methodologies
- Excellent analytical skills and attention to detail, being able to draw insightful and summarised conclusions
- Experience in managing small teams, ensuring tools are in place to achieve team goals
- Strong communication skills with confidence to build effective working relationships, while challenging the business to ensure right customer outcomes are achieved
- Highly motivated individual with ability to work autonomously and in a pressured environment
Unfortunately my client does not accept applications in need of UK sponsorship
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