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Company Description
Legal & General is a leading UK financial services group and major global investor. Weve been safeguarding peoples financial futures since 1836, aiming to build a better society for the long term by investing our customers money in things that make life better for everyone and create value for our shareholders.
Our Group Functions provide the services that all areas of the business need. This requires a talented and diverse team behind the scenes, who enable everyone at L&G to do what they do best.
Joining us means helping to improve the lives of our customers and contributing to the success of the business every day.
Job Description
We are currently recruiting for a Head of Transformation and Change Risk and Business Partner to provide Group Transformation and Change risk management expertise and act as a business partner to the Transformation Office, Group Change, and any other Enterprise-wide Change function acting as the technical expert on Transformation and Change Risk within the Groupwide oversight team in line with requirements.
What youll be doing:
* Policies and Frameworks: Establishing, implementing and maintaining relevant Change Risk frameworks and policies.
* Risk Advice and Opinion: Providing or co-ordinating independent views and opinions to the 1st line senior management on all change and transformation risk matters.
* 2nd Line Liaison: Building strong working relationships with other 2nd line teams including Group Risk, Risk Operations, Advisory, business partners, and assurance.
* Risk Governance: Role model the requirements of the risk governance structure by escalating to risk senior leadership in a timely manner where there is a material change to the businesss risk profile.
* Emerging Risk: Keeping abreast of changes in applicable law and regulation, groupwide policies and frameworks, and business strategy, plans and activities; assess impacts for the Transformation and Change functions; and ensure that changes required to meet regulatory standards are implemented by the business.
* Risk Oversight: Ensuring the 1st line change and transformation teams understand and embed the L&G risk policies and frameworks, including the minimum key controls for change/transformation.
* Consumer Duty: Promoting a positive and open risk culture across the Transformation and Change Office.
* People Management: Taking the lead in all matters with regard to the management of employees, ensuring that management discretion is used in a consistent manner and that the area follows the Groups policies and procedures including the Partnership Agreement to maximise business performance.
Qualifications
Who were looking for:
* Experience working on large, complex, multi-supplier transformation/change projects, either in 1st or 2nd line capacity, providing SME advice, monitoring and oversight in financial sector. This includes being product and technology savvy with the aptitude to risk partner to the TO/Change and IT on their delivery of pragmatic and cost effective solutions.
* Design and implementation of change risk frameworks and use of effective risk management practices to deliver improvements to 1st line change risk management.
* Knowledge of financial services marketplace, relevant products and services, including regulatory environment and impact on change.
* Strong understanding of control design including IT and digital systems for transformation and change.
* Understands managing change risk in line with change risk appetite.
* Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to successfully engage and influence senior stakeholders, including the ability to work with differing levels of stakeholders.
* Strong organisational skills and attention to detail, with demonstrated ability to work independently, oversee multiple projects, prioritise and manage a high volume of workload and reporting deadlines.
* Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to clearly articulate issues and risks and form accurate and non-misleading risk opinions.
* Good presentation, communication and reporting skills.
Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer:
* The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan and valuable share schemes.
* Generous pension contribution.
* Life assurance.
* Private medical insurance (permanent employees only).
* At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2 years service. Theres also the option to buy and sell holiday.
* Competitive family leave.
* Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice.
* There are the many discounts we offer - both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online.
* In 2023, some of our workspaces were redesigned. Our offices are great spaces to connect and collaborate and have your wellbeing at the heart.
Additional Information
Legal & General is a leading financial services group and major global investor, named Britains Most Admired Company in 2023, for the second year running. Rated top in our sector and top for inspirational leadership, we have a strong heritage and an exciting future.
We aim to build a better society for the long term by investing our customers money in things that make life better for everyone.
If you join us, youll be part of a welcoming culture, with opportunities to collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds, views and experiences. Guided by leaders with integrity who care about your future and wellbeing. Empowered through initiatives which support people to develop their careers and excel.
We strive to be open, mindful and inclusive, so are always willing to discuss flexible working arrangements and reasonable accommodations for candidates with specific needs.
If youre open to find out more, wed love to hear from you.
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