IT Systems Risk Specialist Manager

Lloyds Banking Group
Edinburgh
6 months ago
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Description

JOB TITLE:IT Systems Risk Specialist

SALARY:£62,874 - £69,860 per annum

LOCATIONS:Bristol, Birmingham, Chester, Edinburgh, Halifax, Leeds or Manchester

HOURS:Full-time – 35 hours per week

WORKING PATTERN:Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites listed above.

ABOUT THIS OPPORTUNITY

We’re putting in place a fresh operating model for non-financial risk management and we’re seeking an IT Systems Risk Specialist to join our Centre of Excellence. In this role you’ll be supporting robust risk management aligned with the Group’s Enterprise Risk Management Framework (ERMF). This will include giving our leaders and Risk Owners businesses advice on their risk appetite decisions, safely, and at pace.

You'll contribute to implementing risk policy, appetite, and control objectives to enable the delivery of customer, regulatory and business strategic outcomes. Prepare to challenge conventions to create the best possible experience for both customers and staff!

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING

Risk and control

Contributing to the implementation of a risk and control oversight plan to assess compliance to relevant laws, regulations, industry standards and established controls.

Providing pragmatic advice to support informed key risk decisions and trade-offs (balancing commerciality and risk appetite), being bold to ‘call it’, and influence senior decision makers.

Reporting & Monitoring

Performing continuous monitoring and reporting of the Group’s exposure relative to risk appetite, highlighting any significant deviations. Identifying and developing key risk indicators and key performance indicators to enable appropriate monitoring.

Driving automation for risk and control measurement, monitoring, and reporting. Collaborating with technology, data, and analytics teams to escalate issues and define action plans, all in pursuit of sustainable risk management

Policy & Governance & Regulatory compliance

Contributing to the design and implementation of risk policies, control objectives, and appetite to enable the Group to meet regulatory and operational risk objectives, providing consistent, fair outcomes for customers and ensure compliance with control specialist teams, audit and external regulators.

Continuous review and enhancement of risk policies & appetite through the identification & assessment of emerging & growing risks, ensuring policies and appetite reflect new opportunities or threats.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED

We welcome applications from candidates with a range of experiences and backgrounds. To thrive in this role however, you’ll need to demonstrate the below skills in your CV and application.

IT Systems Risk & Control

Existing deep operational expertise aligned to IT Systems Risk in a highly regulated environment, ideally within Financial Services, and knowledge of the latest operational risk frameworks and of technology asset lifecycle management,

Policy, Governance & Regulatory Compliance

Knowledge of relevant laws, regulation, industry standards and established practice in technical subject area; and proven ability to establish relevant risk policies and appetite, designing effective control objectives and performance indicators, and experience in continuous monitoring and reporting on group exposure.

Future vision and understanding of emerging technology and risks

Demonstrable curiosity, understanding and track-record of effectively interpreting emerging technologies shaping the risk landscape (inc. AI, Digital Ledger Technology, Quantum) and anticipating the impact of changes and act accordingly.

Decision-making & problem-solving

Effective decision-making, with evidence of skilfully balancing trade-offs while understanding business strategy and opportunity risks and assimilating different sources of data and complex information to effectively problem-solve and make relevant conclusions and recommendations.

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Relationship building

Strong communication skills in building effective internal and external partnerships and work collaboratively with all other lines of defence.

ABOUT WORKING FOR US

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.

We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity, neurodiversity or culture and we welcome applications from under-represented groups. We’re disability confident, so if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance

Share schemes including free shares

Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping

30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top

A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

If you’re excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We’d love to hear from you!

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person. 

We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.

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