Description
Position:
Operational Risk Officer
Job type:
Contract
Skills:
Governance, Operational Risk, Communication skills
Location:
This role will be based in Swindon, Wiltshire, which is commutable from Cirencester, Gloucester, Oxfordshire, Bath, Bristol, Reading, Berkshire, Newport, Cardiff
Rate:
£450 per day
Outsource UK are actively seeking to recruit a Operational Risk Officer for a contract based with our key financial services Client, that we are working with as a first tier supplier.
The Client:
-Leading & forward thinking financial services organisation
-Branches throughout the UK
-Design their own products
-Customer focused
The Job:
Working as an Operational Risk Officer on a key project, the jobholder will be required to undertake a variety of tasks including:
- Implement the Group's agreed policy and methodology for identifying and assessing operational risk and determining the effectiveness of controls throughout the Division.
- Provide direction, advice and guidance to the senior management team on the business area's current operational risk and control environment, with specific accountability for identifying the risk impacts arising from proposed changes to business activities, processes or from broader environmental factors.
- Act as the business area's focal point, and recognised expert in operational risk oversight, management and control design. Develop and co-ordinate the implementation of local operational risk oversight arrangements, policies and processes.
- Coordinate the operational risk event reporting process and identify/investigate causes of significant control or policy breaches, on behalf of the Operational Risk Unit.
- Develop and produce appropriate operational risk and control information as required by the senior management team, ORU, Internal Controls Team and other internal risk and control functions.
- Coordinate development and delivery of a training and awareness programme to embed operational risk practice across the business area.
- Provide specific support in developing and implementing quantitatively based operational risk concepts necessary to meet our regulatory related operational risk strategy.
Skills Required:
The successful candidates must have:
- Good knowledge of the Financial Services sector, with a sound understanding of the clents's overall business.
- Good appreciation of governance issues, operational risk management concepts and methodologies, coupled with practical experience of implementing operational risk and control management processes (for example in a role managing an operational unit).
- Excellent facilitation, communication, influencing and conflict management skills.
- Awareness of the current regulatory regime within which the clients operates.
Outsource UK Ltd is working on behalf of this client as a recruitment consultancy. Outsource UK Ltd is an 'Award Winning' specialist IT and Engineering Recruitment Firm providing a customised consultative service for contract, interim and permanent roles.
Please keep in touch by emailing Rebecca Inns for further information on the above position or 'Apply Online'.
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