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Senior Client Assurance Manager
Apply locations Bristol (Harbourside) time type Full time posted on Posted 5 Days Ago time left to apply End Date: February 23, 2025 (9 days left to apply) job requisition id R7204
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About the role
As the Senior Client Assurance Manager at Hargreaves Lansdown (HL), you will be responsible for organising the workload and activity for Assurance team within our Client function. You will be working with the leaders across Client to embed risk and control activity, as well as championing a risk culture. You will also be involved in making the risk maturity program operational, and driving compliance with relevant policies and standards, while working closely with second- and third-line functions to align and coordinate wider risk and control activity.
What you’ll be doing
* Managing a team to deliver the risk maturity programme of work, along with embedding a culture of risk-based decision making to enhance business performance.
* Embedding frameworks and supporting the development of robust risk and control management practices.
* Organising regular and routine RCSA activity, including continual development of RCSA quality.
* Evolving strategy and tooling to capture and track remediation activity including regulatory initiatives.
* Working with peers, head of client assurance and optimisation and 1GRC teams to ensure risk events are being managed appropriately within Client teams. Including adherence to SLAs and root cause analysis provision.
* Shaping the alignment of key activities with required controls across Client, wider than risk maturity. Controls testing.
* Embedding initiatives to continually enhance Risk culture through all activity – including overseeing Client controls for procurement and conflicts.
* Developing the review of controls and the ICS. Integrating this into wider assurance activity in first line.
* Embedding compliance risk standards and governance within the Client function and escalating any issues or incidents to the relevant stakeholders.
* Working with the Risk, Compliance Monitoring and Internal Audit Teams to facilitate the audit and review process for Client, working collaboratively across Operations and Digital risk teams to ensure consistency where required.
* Enhancing reporting, including risk profiling as part of Client Assurance developments – to include root cause and lessons learnt.
* Organising the maintenance of relevant L2 risk appetite metrics, ensuring efficient sourcing of data and commentary for reporting and working with the senior governance manager for committee and MI production.
* Process mapping and optimisation.
About you
* Experience in risk and control / assurance management, in the financial services sector.
* Knowledge of enterprise risk management, frameworks and regulations.
* Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, both oral and written.
* Ability to influence and negotiate at all levels.
* Experience of managing a high performing team, with a proven ability to guide, inspire and motivate a team.
* Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, and ability to use data and insights to drive change and improvement.
* Highly organised approach and able to prioritise and manage the workload for self and others.
* Proactive, resourceful and ability to use initiative.
* Reporting and presentation skills, with ability to use various tools and systems.
* Good interpersonal skills and ability to work collaboratively as part of a team.
Interview process
The interview process for this role will consist of an introductory call, a competency-based interview and a task.
Working schedule
This role is based in our Bristol head office, BS1 5HL. This is a permanent full-time role, 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday. We have returned to the office, however for this role we offer a hybrid flexible working pattern of working in the office and at home.
Salary
The base salary for this role is up to £80k per annum depending on experience.
Why us?
Here at HL, we’re the UK’s number 1 investment platform for private investors, based in Bristol. For more than 40 years we’ve helped investors save time, tax and money on their investments.
To achieve our mission, we believe we have a workplace like no other, with constant learning, dynamic teams, and a great ethos. We're steered by core values that promote service, quality, innovation, and opportunity in everything we do.
What's on offer?
* Discretionary annual bonus and annual pay review
* 25 days holiday plus bank holidays and 1-day additional Christmas closure
* Option to purchase an additional 5 days holiday
* Flexible working options available, including hybrid working
* Enhanced parental leave
* Pension scheme up to 11% employer contribution
* Income Protection and Life insurance (4 x salary core level of cover)
* Private medical insurance
* Health care cash plans - including optical, dental, and outpatient care
* Health screening programme
* Help@hand - confidential support including mental health counselling and remote GP
* Wellhub - unlimited access to fitness provider and wellness coach sessions
* Variety of travel to work schemes with bike storage and shower facilities
* Inhouse barista and deli serving subsidised coffee and sandwiches
* Two paid volunteering days per year
This role may also be available on a flexible working or part time basis – please ask the Recruitment & Onboarding team for more information.
Hargreaves Lansdown is an inclusive employer that values diversity in its workforce. We encourage applications from all individuals without regard to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or age.
Please note, we are unable to provide employment sponsorship to candidates.
About Us
Hargreaves Lansdown is the UK's number one platform for private investors. Our purpose is to empower people to save and invest with confidence, and today, we are trusted with more than £120 billion by over 1.7 million clients.
We are a secure, FTSE-listed company, based in the heart of Bristol now with over 2,000 colleagues. We believe we have a workplace like no other, with constant learning, dynamic teams and a great ethos. We're steered by our core values that promote service, quality, innovation, and opportunity in everything we do.
For more information about careers at HL and to see all our vacancies, please visit our careers website.
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