Senior Risk Manager

About The Role

Are you a strategic thinker with a drive for supporting the successful and secure delivery of business objectives within a Financial Services context? Come and join our high-performing Risk Management Team, which plays a crucial role in protecting and progressing business outcomes, and is recognised as an engaged and insightful centre of excellence across the organisation.

We have a fantastic opportunityfor a confident, hands-on Senior Risk Manager with strong stakeholder relationship and influencing skills, who can work as a trusted business partner with senior management and the Executives to drive and embed operational risk management. This role reports into our Operational Risk Director within the second line risk management function. This is a fantastic chance to step into a high-impact leadership role, where you'll provide oversight and constructive challenge across the organisation, and help to ensure robust risk management practices continue to be embedded throughout the business.

With support from the rest of the team, you'll be a champion of risk management excellence, using your experience and best practice to drive appropriate, risk-considered outcomes. The successful individual will have a strong desire to work autonomously, be focused on delivering desired outcomes, and have a natural inclination to identify opportunities to simplify and increase efficiency and effectiveness through continuous learning and improvement.

We offer a hybrid working model - you'll work both from home and from our Bournemouth office.

Key Responsibilities

• Working as a trusted Operational Risk subject matter expert, providing effective support, oversight and challenge of senior leaders and Executives to ensure that material risk issues are identified, assessed and effectively managed through a robust control environment, to manage material risk exposures within risk appetite tolerance.
• Partnering with senior leaders to embed a strong risk mindset into strategic decisions and everyday operations.
• Participating and leading on assurance deep-dives/reviews to provide risk management insights and recommendations to management, the Board, and the regulators.
• Demonstrating extensive experience of Risk and Control Self-Assessment (RCSA) and risk event management, with the ability to build a strong understanding of the current and emerging risk profile and control environment of the business areas you support.
• Regular reporting of the LV= risk profile using data and insights to support perspectives, recommendations and escalations where necessary to Board and Executive Risk Committee governance forums.
• Working on continual improvement of the Risk Management Framework (RMF) and its components for LV= in accordance with market and regulatory requirements.
• Supporting the business as an operational risk expert, keeping up to date with industry best practice and regulation to coach, educate and influence across the business to ensure top level risks are effectively owned and managed by the responsible Executive Committee member.
• Building cross-functional 'partnership'-style relationships and providing guidance and direction across a broad range of line one senior managers and business subject matter experts through effective collaboration and to deliver appropriate risk-managed outcomes.

About You

• Strong hands-on financial services operational risk management oversight experience, with an excellent understanding of Risk Management Frameworks (RMF) and best practice.
• Experience working with a broad range of business areas at all levels to improve the control environment. Experience of partnering Technology, Third Party Management, Business Change, Products and Finance would be desirable.
• Skilled at influencing senior leadership through clear, evidence-based second-line perspectives that support continuous improvement in risk practices.
• Confident in engaging with business stakeholders to offer professional second-line insight and guidance that enhances risk awareness and accountability.
• Thrives in fast-paced environments and able to navigate complexity and trade-offs.
• Excellent report-writing, presentation and compelling communication skills to deliver and communicate complex concepts, insights and findings in a structured, impactful and actionable manner that is supported by data and evidence.
• Strong organisational abilities and the ability to act independently, take the initiative and drive through to an agreed outcome.
• Proven ability to develop and operate at all levels of an organisation, with a recognition of diverse perspectives and the ability to work with these perspectives to make appropriate progress.
• Responsive and resourceful - navigates ambiguity and competing demands with confidence, using sound judgment to prioritise and act decisively.

Rewards & Benefits
This role is a Band C in the LV= Structure.
At LV= Life and Pensions, you'll go above and beyond to do the right thing for our customers. We'll reward your hard work with an attractive, competitive salary and benefits package, which includes:

• 30 days' holiday.
• The opportunity to buy or sell up to two days of holiday.
• An annual bonus scheme based on company and personal performance.
  Flexible benefits, including a cycle to work scheme, personal accident insurance, critical illness cover, private medical insurance, and dental insurance.
• Competitive pension scheme - LV= Life and Pensions will double-match the amount you pay, up to 14% (subject to National Minimum Wage requirements).
• Group Life Assurance of four times your basic pay to your dependents (you'll have the option to increase this to 8 x cover).
• Group Income Protection, if you enroll into the pension scheme and reach 5 years of service.
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) service for support when you need it.
• Virtual GP service.
• Shared parental leave.
• Up to 20% discount on our life products for you and your immediate family.

About Us

We're proud of our inclusive culture at LV= and, as an equal-opportunity employer, we continually work to remove unconscious bias from our recruitment process. We value our colleagues for what they bring to our team regardless of any protected status or characteristics they may have. Talk to us about flexible working as part of your application; if it's right for you, our members and customers, and our business, then we'll do everything we can to make it happen. We're also open to conversations about flexible working as part of your application - if it's right for our customers, our business and for you, then we'll do everything we can to make it happen.

Please note that we are unable to offer Skilled Worker Visa Sponsorship for this role. Therefore, you must ensure that you are eligible to work in the UK without our sponsorship in order for your application to be considered.