Job Description

The Risk & Assurance Officer will play a key role in supporting the Strategy and Business Intelligence Manager and Strategy and Risk Business Partner in the coordination and administration of the association’s approach to risk management, internal audit, regulatory performance standards and statutory/regulatory returns.

The successful candidate will be a motivated self-starter who is confident to work with stakeholders of all levels within NCH. With excellent communication and interpersonal skills, you will influence stakeholders and educate them on best practice initiatives. You will be highly organised and manage the risk management process across NCH, empowering risk owners to make informed decisions.

Specifically, the Risk and Assurance Officer will:

• Coordinate the administration of the risk management framework by supporting risk owners to be accountable for and manage their risks.
• Support the strategy and risk business partner to administer the association’s risk register, keep it updated with risk assessments provided by risk owners, ensuring risk assessments are up-to-date by liaising with risk owners and collating their response and making this available to colleagues across the association
• Support the strategy and risk business partner to administer the internal audit programme: liaising with internal auditors support with the smooth running of internal audit with managing calendar invites and schedule of works and coordinating and monitoring the implementation of management actions in response to internal audit recommendations in accordance with deadlines set.
• Diaries key events during the strategic planning cycle and coordinate meetings to support the strategy and business intelligence manager in engaging with key stakeholders.
• Coordinate and support the managers in undertaking risk reviews to identify and assess risks and the necessary controls to mitigate those risks.
• Monitoring and supporting with creating reports on the implementation of key risk controls, for the strategy and business intelligence manager to present at Audit & Risk Committee, senior managers and leadership team.
• Coordinate the monitoring processes to test the effectiveness of risk controls, identifying areas of concern and undertaking testing of the operation of controls in those areas, escalating any concerns to the strategy and business intelligence manager.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities