Director of First Line Risk
Location: Sheffield / London / Hybrid Working
(Expectation that you will attend an office 2 days per week)
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time 37.5 hours per week/flexible days and/or hours (Mon-Fri)
Salary: Up to £94,500 (Sheffield) / £118,125 (London) depending on experience
Benefits package:
- 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays (pro rata for part time), opportunity to buy and sell holiday
- 15% employer pension contribution, discretionary bonus scheme
- Flexible working, cycle to work scheme, healthcare cash plan and life assurance
- Paid voluntary days, maternity, adoption, and shared parental leave
- Benefits designed to suit your lifestyle - from discounts on retail and socialising, to health and wellbeing, travel, and technology and plenty more
THE ROLE
At the British Business Bank, you will have the opportunity to play a pivotal role in embedding and evolving first line risk management across our Chief Operating Office (COO). Working closely with senior leaders, you will provide strategic direction on risk, controls and operational resilience, helping to ensure our operational, technology, data and change functions deliver against the Bank's objectives within a well-governed risk framework.
As Director of First Line Risk, you will shape the approach to risk management across COO, influencing how risk is identified, assessed, managed and reported. You will partner with senior stakeholders to strengthen risk culture, enhance operational resilience and provide meaningful insight that supports informed decision-making. You will actively assure and oversee the Bank’s material and key control environment from a design and operating effectiveness standpoint. You will also work closely with Risk, Compliance and Internal Audit colleagues, ensuring a collaborative and forward-looking approach to managing risk across the organisation.
This is an opportunity to make a lasting impact. You will lead the continued development of a first line risk capability that supports operational excellence while enabling the business to achieve its strategic goals. Your work will span operational, technology, cyber, outsourcing and change risk, giving you broad exposure across the COO portfolio and the chance to influence outcomes at executive and Board level.
To succeed, you will bring significant experience in operational, technology or enterprise risk within a regulated environment. You will be comfortable engaging with senior stakeholders, providing challenge and insight, and translating complex risk information into practical recommendations. Most importantly, you will be motivated by the opportunity to help shape the future direction of risk management within a purpose-driven organisation that supports smaller businesses across the UK.
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- 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays, opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days holiday
- 15% employer pension contribution
- Flexible working
- Cycle to work scheme, healthcare cash plan, Group Income Protection and life assurance
- Paid voluntary days, maternity, paternity, adoption, and shared parental leave
- Benefits designed to suit your lifestyle - from discounts on retail and dining, to health and wellbeing, travel, and technology...and plenty more
The British Business Bank is an established and influential institution with a key mission of driving sustainable growth and prosperity throughout the United Kingdom. It plays a vital role in supporting access to finance for smaller businesses, facilitating their development and contributing to the transition towards a net zero economy.
Since its inception in 2014, the British Business Bank has functioned as a government-owned economic development bank, operating independently to fulfil its objectives. It collaborates with over 200 delivery partners, including high street, digital, specialist, and challenger banks, venture capital and private debt funds, as well as fintech platforms, to implement its programs effectively.
With offices in Sheffield and London, the British Business Bank currently employs approximately 550 individuals.
As an organisation that values flexibility, wellbeing and collaboration, the British Business Bank introduced a hybrid-working model in 2020. Our colleagues typically spend an average of 2 days per week working in our offices, striking a balance between the advantages of remote work and the benefits of in-person collaboration. The successful candidate for this role should be able to commute to our office (unless specified).
At the British Business Bank, we aim to represent the communities we serve, firmly believing that different perspectives make us stronger. We strongly encourage applications from individuals with varied experiences and backgrounds.
As a Disability Confident employer, we commit ourselves to having an inclusive, equitable and accessible recruitment process supporting applicants and employees, making reasonable adjustments whenever it is feasible.
