Your Role
Irwin Mitchell is dedicated to developing an enterprise risk management (ERM) framework to provide insights and drive actions across the firm. This framework helps stakeholders identify, assess, and mitigate risks, protecting value and uncovering opportunities for value creation.
As a Senior Risk Analyst, you will work with the Head of Risk, Resilience, and Internal Audit to identify, assess, and mitigate risks, conducting risk assessments, and developing risk management strategies. Key tasks include analysing risk data, preparing reports, and collaborating with various departments to implement risk controls. Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and effective communication of complex risk concepts are essential.
The role involves working with all areas of Irwin Mitchell, including those regulated by the SRA and FCA.
What You'll Be Doing
1. Support the ongoing development, management and embedding of IM’s Enterprise Risk Management Framework
2. Lead risk forum activity, discussions and actions to better identify, assess and migrate risk
3. Maintain the suite of risk register and provide insight and analysis of key risks and risk aggregation
4. Build relationships with risk leaders to drive appropriate risk migration activity
5. Undertake risk and control assessment and support risk evaluation exercises
6. Prepare insightful risk reporting for key governance committees and regular management information
7. Support the Resilience team in risk management providing insight to develop the business continuity and resilience framework
8. Support the Internal Audit team to build an accurate and complete risk and control profile that can be used to perform assurance activity
About You
9. Strong experience and technical understanding in Enterprise Risk Management and support the rollout of ERM frameworks
10. Collaborative personality that leads change and brings people together
11. Gravitas to manage and influence a wide range of stakeholders across the IM
12. Experience in leading risk stakeholder meetings to understand key risks and risk management practices
13. Stakeholder management skills and the ability to communicate and influence senior management in the organisation
14. Management of the risk event
15. Has an appropriate qualification in Risk Management
16. Practical experience of ERM
17. Previous experience of working in a legal/professional services environment is desirable
18. Logical and clear thinker
19. Professional manner
Our Benefits - What We Can Offer You
20. 25 days holidays as standard plus bank holidays - You can ‘buy’ up to 35hrs of extra holiday too.
21. Generous and flexible pension schemes.
22. Volunteering days – Two days of volunteering every year for a cause of your choice (fully paid)
23. Westfield Health membership, offering refunds on medical services alongside our Aviva Digital GP services.
We also offer a wide range of well-being initiatives to encourage positive mental health both in and out of the workplace and to make sure you’re fully supported. This includes our Flexible by Choice programme which gives our colleagues more choice over a hybrid way of working subject to role, team and client requirements.
We have been ranked in the Best Workplaces for Wellbeing for Large Organisations for 2024!
Our responsible business programmes are fundamental to who we are and our purpose. We’re committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace where our colleagues can flourish, and we have established a number of inclusion network groups across our business to support this aim.
Our commitment to Social Responsibility, community investment activity and tackling climate change is a fundamental part of who we are. It’s made up of four strands: Our People, Our Community, Our Environment and Our Pro Bono.