Payments Infrastructure Risk Senior Manager (UK Remote)
Location: Remote – Can be based anywhere in the UK
Contract: Permanent
Full spec, salary and package details available on request
Are you an expert in payments with a strong understanding of the UK payments landscape? A leading bank is looking for a Payments Infrastructure Risk Senior Manager to play a key role in shaping risk strategy, ensuring ,robust and resilient systems and processes for payment activities, ensuring effective controls over all aspects of the Payments landscape and delivering insightful oversight.
This is a fantastic people-centric organisation to work for. They have a strong reputation for fostering a collaborative and supportive environment to work in, and a healthy work life balance and well-being of employees is important to them which is reflected in their market leading benefits package.
Responsibilities include to:
* Lead the design and delivery of Payments Infrastructure risk strategy within the second line of defence.
* Provide high-quality reporting and insights to the Board, Leadership Team, and external regulators.
* Set and drive risk mitigation strategies to reduce exposure across payment systems and processes.
* Oversee risk monitoring and assurance plans to ensure compliance and resilience.
* Independently challenge the first line of defence, ensuring risks are identified, measured, and mitigated.
* Keep up to date with regulatory changes and industry best practices, ensuring proactive risk management.
* Act as a senior advisor, influencing key stakeholders and supporting managers in risk execution.
What we're looking for:
* Proven experience in payments risk management within financial services. This may be from a risk role or a payments role giving you a strong understanding of the inherent risks and how to manage them
* Deep knowledge of the UK payments industry and its regulatory environment.
* Expertise in payments-related risk areas, including technology, cyber, change risk, and operational resilience.
* Strong stakeholder management, influencing, and advisory skills at senior levels.
* Experience in audit, assurance, and process redesign (Six Sigma, Agile methodologies beneficial).
* Strategic mindset with the ability to identify and implement process improvements.
If you’re excited by this opportunity to drive payments risk strategy at a high-profile bank, we’d love to hear from you. Apply today – early applications are encouraged for this business critical role!