Benefits of working at Together
* 26 days holiday, and a day off for your birthday (increasing with service to 30 days), plus bank holidays
* Free access to company holiday homes
* Buy & sell holidays
* Discretionary annual bonus plus an additional Shared Reward Bonus
* Matched pension contribution
* Health cash plan plus Private medical insurance
* Life assurance and Critical illness cover
* Travel season ticket loans and Ride to work scheme
* Free local gym access
* Local bar / restaurant discounts
We’re Together. For over 50 years, we’ve helped thousands of people, businesses and professionals unlock their property ambitions with our common-sense approach to mortgages and secured loans.
We take the time to understand our customers and our door is always open, so we can often help when other lenders can’t or won’t. Based in Cheadle, Cheshire, our 750 colleagues help our customers throughout the UK, backed by the power of a £7 billion loan book.
Job Description
As a Risk Manager you will be responsible for overseeing the effective operation of elements of our risk framework and toolkit, to ensure that risks are identified, analysed, mitigated and that they are monitored and reviewed regularly. This covers all risk types (excluding regulatory compliance, legal, financial crime, financial and credit risk) across the group.
As a Risk Manager you will be:
* Working with the business to coordinate and assist the implementation of the Enterprise Risk Management Framework (ERMF) activities, delivering an aligned approach to risk management across the organisation.
* Assist with the development and maintenance of the risk and control self assessment (RCSA) tool and associated aggregation and monitoring dashboard, including the challenge of bi-monthly business RCSA submissions.
* Work with and support RCSA owners, senior leaders and the Executive in understanding the risks we face to our business strategy and operations and how to minimise/mitigate them.
* Assist with managing the risk incident processes, including root cause analysis, and use outputs to inform the identification of emerging risks.
* Execute 3LOD assurance activity, working to define appropriate terms of reference, complete the assurance activity and to produce quality reports.
* Identify, design and implement data led approaches to providing assurance.
Qualifications
Essential:
* Previous Risk Management experience within Financial Services
* Ability to assess risks that may arise and the impacts to the business and find solutions that will work with business stakeholders
* Ability to identify and assess the adequacy of controls frameworks and make appropriate control recommendations
* Excellent interpersonal, team working and communication skills
Additional Information
If you feel you have some of the skills mentioned above, but not all, please do still apply and we would be happy to have a further discussion with you in regards to your suitability for the role.
Together embraces diversity and inclusion, and are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Not only do we welcome difference – we celebrate it, support it and really value our colleagues for who they are. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills.
If you feel you'd benefit from any support or reasonable adjustments during any stage of the recruitment process, please don’t hesitate to let us know when completing your application. This information will be picked up by our team, so we can try and put steps in place to help you be at your best through this process.
Please note that all successful applicants will undergo relevant employment reference, financial and criminal record checks.