Head of Enterprise Risk - Potters Bar, United Kingdom - eFinancialCareers

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Potters Bar, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Description

Canada Life UK looks after the retirement, investment and protection needs of individuals, families and companies.

We help to build better futures for our customers, our intermediaries and our employees by operating as a modern, agile and welcoming organisation.

Part of our parent company Great-West Lifeco, Canada Life UK has operated in the United Kingdom since 1903. We have hundreds of respected and supported employees committed to doing the right thing for our customers and colleagues.

Canada Life UK is transforming to create a more customer-focused business by providing our customers with expertise on financial and tax planning, offering home finance and annuities propositions, and providing collective fund solutions to third party customers.

Job Purpose

The CLUK Enterprise Risk Management Framework (ERMF) pulls together all the core risk management components and the HoER is responsible for implementing, maintaining and evolving it.

A member of the Risk & Compliance leadership team and reporting to the Headof Risk & Governance, the HoER supports the CRO in ensuring that CLUK's ERMF drives effective and appropriate risk management across the business to align with strategy and risk appetite, encourages an appropriate risk culture and meets the needs of the fullrange of stakeholders (including Board, executive, Lifeco group and regulators).

The role is responsible for the development and maintenance of the ERMF to reflect current and emerging risks and developing best practice in risk management, built on risk process outputs in the first and second lines of defence

The HoER will lead a team of risk specialists focusing on the framework development, risk governance, risk reporting and oversight of non-financial risk.

This team works across the whole of CLUK to support the effective use of the ERMF by advocating, trainingand providing oversight on the ERMF.

Key Accountabilities

A senior member of the risk and compliance management team supporting the CRO in leading the risk function, the role will engage with the full range of stakeholders, including regulators, providing quality, appropriate and relevant reporting to the Executiveand CLUK boards and committees.
Responsible for the development of CLUK ERMF (based on the Great West Life ERM framework) to provide appropriate methodologies and processes for ensuring strong risk management and governance across the UK Division in line with strategy, risk appetite andregulatory environment. This will include design and maintenance, advocacy and oversight of embedding of CLUK ERMF aligned with UK division accountabilities
Responsible for the second line of defence aspects of key risk identification, monitoring and reporting activities across UK Division. Working with the risk and compliance business partners and teams as necessary ensure that core risk management processesand tools are effective, fit for purpose and appropriately used across the first line of defence. These include;
Risk & Control Self-Assessment (RCSA)
Risk Events & Losses
Policy Framework
Non-Financial Risk Appetite

Responsible for ensuring that robust mechanisms & processes are in place to support effective risk oversight & assurance, including:

Coordination of periodic "deep dive" assessments of key business processes
Identification and assessment of Emerging Risks
Standards for providing and monitoring Risk Opinions
Act as the CLUK expert on all aspects of the CLUK ERMF, championing the three lines of defence mode to enable continued use and development of the framework and embedding of risk culture across CLUK - driving best practise risk management across CLUK
Responsible for second line oversight of operational risk modelling and reporting across the UK Division, ensuring that effective and consistent processes are in place to facilitate operational risk scenario generation and assessment

Key components include:

Ensuring that the 1st line of defence have appropriate limits in place for measuring and escalating local operational risk events
Collation and reporting of operational risk exposures across the UK Division, including appropriate analysis and commentary
Input to and challenge of operational risk modelling, including the linkage between operational limits and operational capital requirements, and assessments of control limitations

Desired Knowledge / Experience / Skills

Extensive experience in the life insurance industry.
Comprehensive knowledge of risk governance practices and processes, as part of a wider enterprise risk management framework and associated regulations, including Solvency II.
Experience in overseeing the management of operational risks and the various approaches to monitor, model and report on operational risks.
Experience of embedding and maintaining an enterprise risk management framework.
Experience of "second line of defence" risk oversight activities.
Ability to manage and motivate a team with varying levels of experience.
Strong communication skills, demonstrating a clear and articulate standard of written and verbal communication in a complex environment, tailored for all levels of management.
Attention to detail.
Strong influencing skills, with experience of engaging with senior management in order to get desired outcome.
Good interpersonal/networking skills, with the ability to maintain a variety of relationships with multiple stakeholders.
Proven track record at delivering reporting requirements under tight time pressure.
Relevant risk management qualification (desirable)

What you'll like about working here

As a Canada Life UK colleague, you'll receive a competitive salary and comprehensive reward package including income protection, private medical insurance and life assurance, along with a generous pension and bonus scheme.

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