Enterprise Risk Consultant - Manchester, United Kingdom - Interactive Investor

Interactive Investor

Verified Company

Manchester, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

WHO WE ARE:
interactive investor is an award-winning investment platform that puts its customers in control of their financial future.

We've been helping investors for over 25 years. We've seen market highs and lows and been resilient throughout.

We're now the UK's number one flat-fee investment platform, with assets under administration approaching £55 billion and over 400,000 customers.

For a simple, flat monthly fee we provide a secure home for your pensions, ISAs and investments. We offer a wide choice of over 40,000 UK and international investment options, including shares, funds, trusts and ETFs.

We also bring impartial, expert content from our award-winning financial journalists, highly engaged community of investors, and daily newsletters and insights.

WHAT WE STAND FOR:

It's simplewe want our customers to feel confident and in control, for interactive investor to go from strength to strength, and for ii to be a workplace where we can all thrive.

Our customer-driven approach and bold values sit at the heart of this. We are honest, straight-talking and transparent with our customers and our colleagues. We are decisive and take ownership of what we say and deliver.

We are ambitious and passionate about what we believe is right for our customers, our teams, ourselves and interactive investor.

KEY RESPONSIBLITIES:

Support the Enterprise Risk Team in fulfilling its 'second line of defence' responsibilities by providing effective support and challenge to ensure business wide adherence to documented policies, control standards, processes and procedures, ensuring the delivery of excellent customer experience in line with required regulatory standards
Provide effective oversight to ensure all material risks have a suitable and wellarticulated control in aCCelerate, or where Risks cannot be treated, ensuring the Risk Acceptance process is followed appropriately
Execute key control assurance programme with the first line of defence, with regular monitoring and oversight, to determine the effectiveness of business control design and performance, identifying areas of strength and weakness
Support the training, development, and ongoing maintenance, of the organisation's Risk Management system, aCCelerate, ensuring its functionality is optimised to enable all areas of the business to use it effectively
Develop and nurture relationships with key stakeholders including all levels of management in the business areas and processes which the role supports
Produce and review regular monitoring MI (KRIs, KCIs, Control Dashboards etc.) to ensure stakeholders and senior management have sufficient visibility and awareness of areas of strength and weakness and can make informed management decisions as required
Support the continued development and documenting of, and ensure continued adherence to, an end to end Risk Event process, ensuring a robust Root Cause Analysis is determined and documented and that any control failures identified have a mitigating plan in place
Provide oversight and challenge of business continuity plans to ensure that all critical processes that support the delivery of key products and services are identified and recovered in the event of a business disruption
Support the delivery and embedding of a strong risk culture across the organisation, including developing and presenting training material on all relevant tenets of the Enterprise Risk Management Framework. This will include assisting in activities to support the Risk Champion Network in place across ii.
Identify, and support with implementation of, improvement opportunities in relation to identifying, assessing, and managing risks, including appropriate escalation methods and robust risk event management from reporting to closure
Supporting in development and creation of timely and accurate regular Risk reporting for Executive and Board Risk Committee and other forums as required
Use the Training and Competence scheme to maintain the appropriate knowledge, skills and expertise to carry out the role competently

Requirements:

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

Strong communication skills; both written and verbal and ability to adjust to different audiences
Able to build and maintain positive relationships with a range of stakeholders
Ability to pick up knowledge of business functions, their key objectives and critical processes, ideally gained in a Financial Services business or similar highly regulated business
Well organised with strong administrative skills and attention to detail
Able manage own workload and use initiative to take on tasks within remit
Able to create regular risk reports for committees and adhoc requests. Will need moderate Excel skills and be comfortable with extracting and manipulating data.
Able to analyse data, draw themes and conclusions to include in reporting or as part of assurance/oversight activities
Risk management knowledge understanding