Senior Talent Partner Nationwide Building Society
We’re navigating significant change at Nationwide. It’s an exciting time as we evolve to a new future that sees us accelerate delivery of our strategic aims, value to our members and engage colleagues around new ways of working.
At the same time, we are investing in the Operational Risk Oversight team in the second line of defence. We are increasing the capacity, seniority, and capability of the team to ensure we continue to add customer value by investigating, challenging, and influencing across the Society.
As Senior Manager - Risk Oversight (Technology), this role is a fantastic opportunity to support, challenge, and influence the technology strategy through liaison with Chief Information officers, architects, and risk partners. Technology underpins all business and member services so understanding and managing Technology risk, control, and policy effectively is a critical part delivering services to customers.
For this job you'll spend at least two days per week, or if part time you'll spend 40% of your working time, based at either our Swindon or London office.
What you'll be doing
Providing effective leadership and oversight on operational activities and change initiatives within the Technology sphere of accountability, such as the multi-year “Technology Strategy”, and wider across the society; to ensure that not only technology risks have been fully considered but also how other risk categories could be affected by the technology strategy.
You will play a crucial role in the development of a strategic technology oversight plan that will drive assurance on the adequacy and effectiveness of risk management across the technology estate to mitigate key operational, regulatory and conduct risks.
Leading your team’s oversight in various ways to suit the oversight activity. This could include “close and Continuous” oversight, and undertaking risk and control based “formal oversight reviews” if required. Using your experience of technology to seek out weaknesses in the environment for remediation by first line, before incidents occur.
Maintaining high value relationships with a sufficient depth of technical and business understanding of their area, project impacts, priorities and risks. You will ensure that the key risks and controls are sufficiently prominent and accounted for. This will cover all levels and capabilities from Architects, business analysts, 1st line risk partners and product owners.
Collaborating with partners across the three lines of defence to simplify and strengthen technology risk management practices for the benefit of the Business and Society overall.
Assessing business area compliance against the Enterprise Risk Management Framework (ERMF) requirements. The EMRF includes business and regulatory requirements on risks, controls, policies and scenario analysis.
Deputising for the Head of Operational Risk Oversight (Technology) and other senior members of the team as required.
About you
As a minimum requirement, you'll have/be:
* A demonstrable track record of either working within, any of the three lines of defence for technology management or you will have operational experience of managing complex platforms or networks, with a strong understanding of cloud. Working within or oversighting Technology Frameworks such as COBIT or ITIL, within financial services, professional services or a regulator.
* Strong critical thinking, and you’ll comprehend and assimilate information rapidly, breaking down complex problems and providing support and challenge to risk owners in a clear and understandable way to suit different audiences.
* Experience of working on a regular basis with exco -1 level stakeholders.
* Experience of leading and nurturing a high performing team.
* A strategic thinker with the ability to see the bigger picture and seamlessly connect insights across the organisation.
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The extras you'll get
There are all sorts of employee benefits available at Nationwide, including:
* A personal pension – if you put in 7% of your salary, we’ll top up by a further 16%
* Up to 2 days of paid volunteering a year
* Life assurance worth 8x your salary
* A great selection of additional benefits through our salary sacrifice scheme
* Wellhub – Access to a range of free and paid options for health and wellness
* Access to an annual performance related bonus
* Access to training to help you develop and progress your career
Seniority level
* Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Information Technology
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