Head of Risk - Abbey Wood, United Kingdom - Gamma Telecom

Gamma Telecom

Verified Company

Abbey Wood, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

Main purpose of role:

Gamma is evolving its risk management practices, integrating all risk activity into a single framework, ensuring decision making is aligned with our risk appetite.

You will be accountable for ensuring we operate effectively and deliver risk management services to the Group. You will be agile, show resilience and be able to influence work practices and control implementations across the business.

Key skills and responsibilities:

Oversee the Risk Management team, ensuring they are engaged, supported and challenged within their role.
Embedding the Risk and Control frameworks within the Group
Be responsible for offering guidance and advice to Gamma teams. Where required you will support the business develop risk response plans.
Have the autonomy to embed all risk measuring activities and you will be accountable for improving the quality of processes internationally up to Director level.
Work with the business to identify control requirements and plan ways to improve weaknesses.
Have an understanding of governance and control frameworks e.g. 3LOD, PCI, ISO, SOX and how they relate to internal control management
Represent Gamma in external forums to learn and develop your function

Skill

Responsibilities
Problem solving

Ability to understand and analyse a wide set of problems and manage ambiguity faced by you and the team
Supporting non risk employees understand risk and how it relates to their role and the wider business objectives
Developing innovative and relevant risk management activities and controls to ensure Gamma is working within agreed tolerances

Decision making

Accepting or rejecting risk management plans and control management activities up to Director level
Developing the Risk Team and ensuring they have relevant objectives, development and challenge

Innovation

Developing the framework management activities
Managing and developing the Integrated Risk Management platform
Developing the Risk Business Partner model within the team, ensuring all Business Units are supported.

Communication

Represent the function at various business critical committee and forums to ensure risk is represented and considered
Help build awareness of the risk management function, ensuring it is easy to do business with and acting as a respected centralised service for the Group.

Interpersonal

Risk reporting to various levels of the business up to Director level
Be a positive reflection of how Risk can influence and improve business processes
Drive a self starting mentality within the team

Financial

Approval of Employee expenses up to £750 against Gamma policy

Key relationships:

Act as senior liaison for all functions within Gamma with regards to risk
Ensure Risk Managers are assigned an area of responsibility (acting as Business Partners)
Support Audit and Governance understand which controls require inspection
Supporting the Procurement Director regarding third party risk management activities.
Ensure active participation with the wider security industry, nurturing relationships to share learning and best practice with each other.

Experience and skills:

Essential

Desirable

Education/Qualifications

None
Bachelor's degree (or vocational equivalent)
Certified Risk Professional

Experience

Overseeing and maturing a risk framework
Leading and developing a team of Risk Professionals
Working within a technology driven organization
Developing and delivering internal controls into an organization, including testing
Telecommunications industry experience
Riskonnect experience

Skills/Knowledge

Risk and control management
Control design and development
Ability to set a department level strategy, aligning to the Directorate and Business strategy
Stakeholder identification, assessment and effective management
Presentation skills (verbal and written)
Exposure to various relevant technologies

Aptitudes/Attributes