Senior Risk Business Partner

This is a fantastic opportunity for you to join the Line 1 Risk team in the Customer & Conduct Department and establish a career in Risk, Governance and Compliance. Customer & Conduct are a first line team that sit across EUI Ltd. The Risk team are focused on supporting risk management processes and promoting consistency in risk management and Group Standards.

We are looking for a Senior Risk Business Partner to lead a team of Risk Partners, whilst working very closely with specific departments in the business to support their risk management.

Effective, structured management of risk and governance will be a key factor to the continued success of the department(s) you’ll be supporting. Your role will drive the maturity of 1st line risk across EUI through the delivery of risk advice at SMF level, drive continuous improvement across the risk community practices and guidance and lead the embedding of RCSA across EUI.

The overall objective for the role is to lead EUI to improve and mature existing risk management practices, ensuring we secure fair customer outcomes and meet regulatory requirements, whilst exceeding customer and financial targets. It is an enabling role for the rest of the business with focus on customer excellence and value creation, with this role providing the essential risk and governance wrapper.

The successful candidate will partner closely with our UK Customer Teams to support them in the delivery of our customer strategy, marketing and customer insights, proactively supporting them in managing their risk and governance responsibilities. Although risk and governance processes exist, we are looking for someone to identify opportunities and make recommendations for improvement, as well as lead and upskill across 1st Line EUI.

The role will also need to collaborate closely with other Admiral governance departments, including but not limited to EUI Risk, Compliance & Regulatory Advice teams, IT as well as any third parties the areas manage. As this is a fairly new role, you will get the opportunity to shape the scope of the role, responsibilities and activities going forwards and be an advocate of the changes being made.

• As a Senior Risk Business Partner you will work in partnership with the relevant department (e.g. product or operational) to drive and embed first line risk activity from a centralised team, through process mapping, risk reviews, controls testing and reporting. Developing insights into how risk is being managed in the department and how it aligns to Admiral Strategy.
• Take Ownership of the development and maturity Risk Registers and supporting reviews, for example Risk & Control Self-Assessments (RCSA), ensuring all risks and controls are identified, consistently assessed, and have effective ownership.
• Develop relationships with stakeholders at all levels across EUI promoting best practices and continuous improvement setting future standards and challenging Exco where appropriate.
• Drive innovation in the risk management practices and procedures, in order to transform how risk is managed and mitigated across EUI.
• Challenging the resolution of risk events across EUI, ensuring customer outcomes are achieved and root cause established, with thematic trends analysed and used to drive improvement in the control environment across EUI.
• Support the interpretation of compliance and regulatory requirements relevant to the UK Customer Teams
• Ensure policy requirements and internal standards are met, identifying any shortfalls, and ensuring appropriate actions to address.
• Support management with SMF / Certified Manager responsibilities through the provision of risk management information, risk committee governance and insight into the operational effectiveness of controls.
• Lead and develop your team of risk partners setting out the capability for the future.

• Prior experience of managing risks, controls and governance processes within the Financial Services industry.
• Proven ability to interrogate/analyse MI and make recommendations linked to desired customer, regulatory and business outcomes.
• Determination, resilience…