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Operational Risk Manager - Insurance/Financial Services - Southwest - Hybrid - Excellent Bens
Are you a Risk Manager who has a background in the Big 4/advisory business, looking for a role in industry? Or do you work for an insurance provider and looking to work in a smaller, transforming and friendly business. Where you and the customer are at the heart of everything they do?
A fantastic opportunity has arisen for an Insurance Risk Manager to join the risk team, reporting directly into the SMF4, Chief Risk Officer.
PURPOSE OF THE POSITION
- To support the Chief risk officer to provide specialist risk management advice and support for the business
- Ensuring the risk and control frameworks of the organisation are managed, maintained, updated, and are operating effectively.
- To manage risk within the company by ensuring that the company’s risk framework meets its regulatory obligations.
- To reinforce good conduct and the organisation’s brand values across the business.
Managing Projects
- Support in the contribution of the organisation’s business plan and delivery of strategic framework as required.
- Champion and support in managing change by promoting a challenging and flexible environment.
- Lead and manage projects as required by the organisation
EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS
- Significant financial services experience and sound knowledge of the financial service’s regulatory environment.
- Must have previous experience of operating at a manager level within a financial services risk function, ideally insurance.
- Considerable knowledge and experience of best practice risk management and governance frameworks, methodologies, and emerging practice in a UK financial services context
- Proven market and product expertise in individual income protection and private medical insurance an advantage
- Strong commercial insight, understanding of the long-term strategy with the technical ability to exercise oversight over risk, compliance, and control arrangements.
PERSON PROFILE
- Strong interpersonal and organisational skills
- Leadership skills, including the ability to manage risk and control activities in a complex financial services environment.
- Skilled communicator with the ability to motivate others.
- Problem-solving and decision-making skills, with the ability to analyse complex information to identify the key issue/action and drive resolution.
- Previous experience of initiating and delivering positive change through displaying role model values and behaviours
- Maintain own professional development.
- Can demonstrate excellent results through people.
- Able to work at a fast pace and manage interruptions.
