Risk Management Officer - London, United Kingdom - NHS Counter Fraud Authority

NHS Counter Fraud Authority

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

4 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

The Counter Fraud Authority has offices in London, Coventry and Newcastle and there is the opportunity for office based, hybrid or home working based at any of these locations.

In addition to the advertised salary working in the London area will attract High Cost Area Supplement where appropriate

The NHS Counter Fraud Authority (NHSCFA) is the national body responsible for all matters relating to the prevention, detection and investigation of economic crime across the NHS.

Further information about our work and annual plan for delivering this is available on our website.

Interviews will be held 5th/6th/7th March 2024.

The purpose of the role is to support the Risk Management Lead in providing corporate support, advice and guidance to the Executive and Senior Management Team in the area of risk management, as well as to provide challenge to business unit leads in respect of operational risks.

The post holder will be responsible for ensuring compliance with the organisation's risk management framework, in particular, facilitating the appropriate recording, assessment, scoring and update of strategic and corporate risks.

They will oversee operational unit risks challenging managers and actionee assessments, updates and the need to escalate risks to corporate status where appropriate.

They will assist the Risk Management Lead in reviewing the organisation's risk registers, as well as being responsible for ensuring the management and update of strategic and relevant cyber and forensic computing risks that feed into the Board Assurance Framework (BAF) report.

The postholder will also work closely with the Corporate Affairs Manager and Head of Corporate Support to promote and ensure a proactive organisational approach to risk management.

This will include attending external cross governmental risk meetings, internal business team meetings, performance and assurance panels and integrated business planning meetings and assisting in the development of internal workshops, training and e-learning modules.

Discuss and draft analysis reports and assessments to the Risk Management Lead on factors that could impact the organisation's risk profile, identifying escalating risk factors and/or those with potentially poor controls/ weak mitigating actions and lines of defence

Provide SMT with critical analysis and hands on support to monitor and update strategic and threshold corporate risks on MRT/Verto, in addition to expert challenge on controls and mitigation, advising on how to articulate the best course of action to manage the risk.

Provide expert input into the writing of the organisation's risk management policies and risk appetite statement.

Proactively undertake gap analysis assessments of 'controls and assurances' and where necessary develop action plans to address these. Regularly conduct horizon scanning for emerging risks.

Ensure that processes for risk identification and escalation are working effectively undertaking audits as appropriate to review compliance.

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