Overview
Salary: Up to £175,000 p.a ( dependent on experience)
Are you a senior leader who is looking to be part of a programme that brings two financial services organisations together?
This is a unique opportunity to expand your network, collaborate across sectors and play a key role in the success of this Risk programme.
Our Risk Second Line of Defence’s key purpose is to enable the business to make effective risk-based decisions by considering objectives and priorities, the regulatory environment, robust controls, and governance.
The role will provide leadership for oversight and assurance over the Group’s Integration Programme and its vital we engage an experienced senior subject matter expert (SME).
The SME will foster positive engagement along with developing and maintaining effective working relationships with our stakeholders across the Group Integration Programme and the wider business, its integral we work in a co-operative and constructively challenging manner to achieve this goal.
Key Responsibilities:
- Second line of defence representative for oversight and assurance
- Design and deliver the oversight and assurance model for the Integration programme.
- Assure that the Integration programme delivers change in line with the Group Change risk methodology.
- Develop and produce reporting on the Integration programme Change Risk Profile to the Risk Committees
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support the management of the programme.
- Provide leadership, insight, and critical challenge.
- To provide support and guidance to relevant business areas
Find out more about the fantastic benefits of joining Coventry Building Society here.
Our benefits include:
- 28 days holiday a year plus bank holidays and a holiday buy/sell scheme.
- Annual discretionary bonus scheme
- Personal pension with matched contributions
- Life assurance (6 times annual salary)
- Private Medical Insurance
- Health Screening – Eligible
- You’re entitled to a company car or car allowance.
To be effective in this role you will be able to demonstrate excellent understanding of Change Risk frameworks, oversight and assurance approaches for projects and programmes.
Essential requirements:
- You will have significant relevant experience of working at a senior level within an Operational Risk function.
- Programme Change and Risk experience.
- Programme Management experience.
- Senior leadership level
- Highly effective at both written and verbal communication
- Enterprise-wide outlook, understanding both external and internal environments and how these will impact operational risk management.
Desirable requirements
- Experience in Financial Services
- Mergers and acquisitions (M&A)
We’re one of the largest building societies in the UK and we share a mutual goal across our branches and our offices to improve the lives of others.
We’re officially recognised as a ‘Great Place to Work’ and our benefits go beyond basic pay, with a discretionary bonus scheme, a culture of reward and recognition and comprehensive support for wellbeing.
At the beginning of the year, The Co-operative Bank officially became part of our Group. Together, we have shared values and an ethical approach towards our members, customers, and colleagues.
We’re serious about equality, of race, age, faith, disability, and sexual orientation and we celebrate diversity. By working together, we know you’ll build more than just a career with us.
All together, better.
Flexibility and why it matters.
We understand the need for flexibility, so wherever possible, we’ll consider alternative working patterns. Have a chat with us before you apply to see what the possibilities are for this role.
Proud to be a Disability Confident Committed Employer
We’re proud to offer an interview or assessment to every disabled applicant who meet the minimum criteria for our vacancies. As part of the application process, disabled applicants can opt in for the Disability Confident Interview Scheme. If there are ever occasions where it is not practicable to interview all candidates that meet the essential criteria, such as when we receive a high number of applications, we commit to interviewing disabled candidates who best meet the minimum essential and desirable criteria.
If you would like to opt in to the scheme please contact our recruitment team when you apply via Get in touch – Coventry Building Society (coventrycareers.co.uk)
Location: Coventry-Binley Business Park
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