Job Description

• To own the responsibility for the in situ 2nd line Risk Framework and associated policy, processes, references and standards.
• Bespoke support to the Chief Risk Officer & Risk Management function as required by governance protocols
• Main focus of the role is to provide proficient support for the Risk Framework to an auditable standard.
• This will include notary stand-in to maintain document validity.
• Risk Framework. Maintain and update the Risk Framework methodology and process documentation in-line with current industry best practice and future supervisory requirements including; risk and control assessment, incident management, KRI’s, risk appetite and taxonomy.
• Policy Management: Maintain and update the Vocalink risk policies in line with current industry best practice and future regulatory requirements to the correct supervisory standard.
• Provide close support to supervisory governance requests, programmes and audits.

All activities involving access to our assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, company is responsible for information security and must:

• Abide by company’s security policies and practices;
• Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
• Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with company’s guidelines.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Significant experience in UK financial governance
• Significant experience in UK payments or financial technology
• Specific expertise in risk management to include policy, process and reporting methodology.
• Able to lead and direct those around you in order to meet a team or collaborative goal
• Character is values lead and intrinsically of a sufficient quality to maintain a professional relationship across the business
• Consistently display positive, professional and approachable behaviors – displaying the company ethos.
• Confident briefing to senior, executive and board level audiences.
• Excellent communication skills - uses all relevant channels and resources to communicate effectively and proactively
• Able to work with no supervision, appropriate skill set to support remediation effort
• Team working – ability to build and maintain effective working relationships with a wide range of people.
• Work co-operatively with others as part of a team
• Organization and detailed planning ability is essential.
• Demonstrate strong disciplines with regard to accuracy and quality of output