The Vacancy
TPT Retirement Solutions is looking for an experienced senior risk professional to lead the development and implementation of our Group-wide risk management standards. This is a key leadership role, providing strategic risk advice, oversight and assurance across TPT, our propositions and our Trustee clients.
What you’ll be doing
Own and evolve TPT’s Risk Management Playbook, policies and supporting materials, ensuring risk management practices are clearly defined, understood and embedded.
Lead our Risk Advisory and Risk Assurance services, providing independent challenge, oversight and assurance to strengthen controls and support effective risk management.
Act as a senior risk adviser to the Board, Executive Team, Committees and Trustee clients, providing clear advice and constructive challenge on significant and emerging risk matters.
Provide risk oversight for strategic initiatives, business change and new propositions, ensuring risks are identified, assessed and managed in line with risk appetite.
Define and oversee risk reporting and Key Risk Indicator frameworks, providing timely and forward-looking insight into current and emerging risks.
Champion risk capability across TPT by developing education and awareness programmes that strengthen understanding, accountability and effective risk management at all levels.
Help embed a positive, risk-intelligent culture that supports informed decision-making and confident risk-taking.
Skills, Experience and Qualifications:
You’ll bring extensive senior-level risk management experience, ideally gained within an occupational pension scheme, institutional investment or complex financial services environment. You’ll be confident advising senior stakeholders and able to provide constructive challenges in a way that supports positive outcomes.
You’ll also be able to demonstrate:
Extensive knowledge of risk management practices in pensions or investment management.
Knowledge and understanding of how regulatory, political, reputational, investment and legal risks can affect a complex business.
Experience implementing, operating or embedding Governance, Risk and Compliance tools.
Experience of risk advisory and risk assurance techniques, including risk identification, trend analysis, mitigation and control oversight.
Detailed knowledge of relevant regulatory requirements, including TPR, FCA rules, Codes and other relevant legislation.
The ability to guide and facilitate the risk management lifecycle, adapting your approach to the maturity of different business areas.
Confidence delivering presentations, facilitating interactive meetings or workshops with a range of audiences and communicating complex risk matters.
Strong judgement, decisiveness and the ability to solve complex problems where established procedures may not exist.
A commitment to producing high-quality work that can withstand appropriate scrutiny and challenge.
Educated to degree level, or with equivalent relevant experience. Risk-related qualifications such as CIRM, MBCI or similar would be helpful.
If you’re keen to play an important role in helping us identify, assess, manage and report material risks in a consistent and proportionate way, supporting robust governance and confident decision-making within our agreed risk appetite, this is the role for you. Apply today!
The Company
TPT Retirement Solutions (TPT) is one of the UK’s leading providers of workplace pensions with 80 years’ experience of managing defined benefit and defined contribution pension schemes. It has £11.4 billion of assets under management (as at 30 September 2025) and 490,000 members.
TPT’s mission is to make pension schemes perform better for everyone, from the sponsoring employers and trustees to the members who are saving for the future. They are an innovative, forward-thinking organisation, investing in technology to improve the services they provide. TPT are ultimately owned by a pension fund, providing genuine alignment of interests with those of their clients and scheme members.
Benefits
Competitive salary
Performance-related bonus
Pension scheme
Sports and social events
Training and development plan
Flu jabs
