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.