Risk Partner - Banking/Financial Services

Qualifications:

• Must be CA/CISA/DISA

Business Partnering & Strategic Insight:

• Partner with senior leaders on business strategy, risk and governance, providing constructive challenge.
• Identify key, emerging and changing risks and translate them into clear business recommendations.
• Escalate material risks, control gaps and compliance issues.

Risk & Control Oversight:

• Ensure effective implementation of risk and control frameworks, policies and standards.
• Review and challenge risk assessments, controls, remediation and issue closure.
• Identify gaps and opportunities to strengthen risk maturity.

Governance & Reporting:

• Prepare concise, insight-led reports for senior management, Risk and Board committees.
• Analyse risk, control, incident and assurance data to highlight trends and key concerns.
• Coordinate with Risk, Compliance, Legal, Audit and regulators on governance and assurance matters.

Data & Continuous Improvement:

• Improve risk data, MI and reporting through analytics, visualisation and automation.
• Support risk tools, reporting standards and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Promote strong risk and control culture through coaching and best-practice sharing.

Key Skills & Technical Expertise:

• Strong stakeholder management, influencing, judgement and constructive challenge.
• Strong analytical, communication and problem-solving skills with commercial awareness.
• Knowledge of enterprise/operational risk, controls, governance, regulation and risk data.

Experience:

• Significant experience in Risk, Compliance, Controls, Audit or similar roles within a regulated environment.
• Experience advising senior stakeholders, assessing controls and managing remediation/assurance.
• Exposure to transformation, risk modernisation and senior management/Board reporting.