Risk Strategic Advisor

Handelsbanken; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000

Job description

Risk Strategic Advisor - Part time, 2 days per week

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Job Introduction

The Risk Strategic Advisor - part time - two days per week. The Risk Function (UKR) is a key part of the Bank’s 2nd line of defence. It owns the Bank’s Risk Framework and manages the relationship with our prudential regulator, the PRA. This helps keep the Bank delivering its strategy within the levels of Risk tolerance set out by our Board. It also enables risks to be identified, mitigated and reported at all levels of the Bank consistently. The team aid this by designing and delivering appropriate tools, frameworks, models and data and providing advice, oversight and assurance to keep things working effectively. This supports the Low Risk objective to help maintain above average Return on Equity. This is due combining a low tolerance for risk with risk intelligent approaches to create capital, liquidity, credit and operational cost efficiency and to support the financial and operational resilience of the Bank in times of Economic challenge or Bank specific crisis.

The role holder will advise the Chief Risk Officer on significant strategic matters relating to risk across the Bank.

Main Responsibilities

The overall goal for the Risk Strategic Advisor is to:

1. Advise on maintaining positive relationships with the PRA
2. Help advise on Group consistency
3. Help advise on Board oversight approaches and senior stakeholder relationships
4. Support the good risk culture of the business
5. Provide external context and insight to recommended risk approaches
6. Advising on regulatory approaches and communications, particularly relating to Operational Risk, Technology Transformation, Change and Operational Resilience
7. Advising on the oversight approaches for complex technology transformation programmes, bank-wide change frameworks, setting Board level risk tolerances and supporting risk indicators.
8. Advising on maximising the potential value from a future GRC solution.
9. Advising on Board oversight of Technology transformation and change risk and Board level risk acceptance approaches
10. Providing external context and advice on enhancing existing group service arrangements and improving Service Management Model between the Group and the UK for IT and non-IT services.
11. Advise on improving sophistication of Bank’s scenario testing capabilities from Operational Resilience perspective, specifically focussing on severe scenarios such legacy IT failure, Third Party failure and Cyber-attacks.
12. Advising on approaches to aggregate risks across the Bank and formalise Bank wide ownership of risks
13. Sound boarding on key risk matters and help shape presentations to the Board.
14. Operates in line with the Bank's Risk Management framework (including sub-frameworks) and relevant risk and compliance policies and procedures, ensuring appropriate and timely escalation of any concerns to their line manager.

Ideal Candidate

• Hold significant senior relevant experience in ideally a Tier 1 bank
• Have a detailed understanding of Risk Frameworks and approaches
• A comprehensive understanding of industry best practice
• Experienced mentoring senior colleagues
• Experience interacting and creating Board level content

Company Information

Handelsbanken is a relationship bank with a decentralised way of working, a strong local presence thanks to a nationwide network of branches, and a long-term approach to customer relations. Each Handelsbanken branch operates as a local business enabling it to make decisions at a local level and provide a bespoke service. The focus is always on the need of the individual customer and not on the sale of specific products.

The Bank is deeply committed to embedding good equality and diversity practice into all of our activities. This is so that we are an inclusive, welcoming and inspiring place to work that encourages everyone to apply, regardless of socio-economic background, age, disability, pregnancy and/or parental status, race (including colour, nationality, and ethnic or national origin), veteran status, marital and civil partnership status, religion or belief, sex, gender reassignment or sexual orientation.

Check our Handelsbanken website for further information.

What is in it for you?

• We have a wide range of learning and development available, empowering and enabling our colleagues to take ownership of their own development.
• Competitive Salary and an extensive range of benefits is provided, including private medical insurance, income protection and life assurance.
• A market-leading pension contribution of 15% paid by the bank, which can be invested in a wide range of funds (including ESG and Shariah funds).

Application next steps

Your journey with us begins once you have submitted your application. One of our Handelsbanken recruiters will be reviewing your details and will later organise a phone conversation if you match the role requirements. If there is a mutual fit, we will extend an invitation for you to participate in an interview.

How can we support you to be your best self? Our Talent Acquisition team will be happy to provide support e.g. if you need additional time to prepare for an interview or you have any requirements for any part of the interview/hiring process – just let us know by email [e-mail].

This advert will be live for a minimum of two weeks. However, please note that after the two weeks, the closing date could change at any time depending on the number of responses received.