GROW WITH THE CHALLENGE

At the time of inception, cloud-based systems and API fluency were new. But that didn’t scare us. We waved goodbye to legacy systems and embraced modern technology – where our true innovation began and didn’t stop.
No hierarchy, no egos. Just a spirit of collaboration that flows right throughout our organisation – it’s woven into our DNA. We genuinely want to know about each other’s learnings and expertise, especially where it can help us achieve bigger things.
At ClearBank, we make things happen. We solve problems together because we know that many heads are always better than one. Valuing different perspectives is what sets our culture apart. And being able to disagree and commit is key to our progress. Above all we’re a team because when we win together, it feels so much better than doing it alone.

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT:

ClearBank is a place where you can do things differently and challenge the status quo. We will give you a high level of autonomy and transparency, and we trust you to make the right decisions for the bank.
If that excites you, how about joining our Technology Governance team, within Technology as a Risk and Control Manager Reporting to the Head of Technology Governance. You will be responsible for ensuring that good risk management culture and practice is at the core of technology, so it acts as an enabler for business growth. This looks like Informed decision making, improving resilience, innovation and growth.

Your role includes:

• Coordination and oversight of technology risks and controls, RCSA and supporting the processes that underpin them;
• In collaboration with stakeholders, you’ll continuously assess and review technology risks both inherent and residual, now and on the horizon;
• Working in partnership with engineers, you’ll review, challenge, and advise to continuously improving controls;
• Oversee associated control testing relating to providing feedback to the respective areas for improvements;
• Supporting key projects that serve the risk strategy, which may involve regulatory and audit deliverables;
• Acting as the risk and control point of coordination within technology, supporting engineers, offering coaching;
• Escalate issues within technology in a timely manner to the appropriate level;

• Having a sightline across all technology risk and control environments with regular reporting. You’ll identify issues, weaknesses, themes and any actions required;

  What we are looking for:

• Excellent working knowledge of control environments with a proven understanding of technology risks (including system performance, resilience, data management, change and associated controls);

• Strong understanding of technology governance policies and procedures (including existing and emerging technology advancement and the implications of those);
• Good understanding of operational resilience (including Technology aspects and how it impacts on service resilience change, suppliers, incident capacity, and cyber event resilience);
• Experience of 1st line risk roles with a minimum of 5 years’ experience, ideally in a banking/ fintech environment;
• Understanding and experience of the 3 Lines Model;
• Experience of working with agile change methodology principles, DevOps practices and related change management oversight of the test and production environments;
• Strong background in using corporate technology stacks including MS Suite, Azure DevOps, GRC tooling etc.

Your role includes:

• Coordination and oversight of technology risks and controls, RCSA and supporting the processes that underpin them;
• In collaboration with stakeholders, you’ll continuously assess and review technology risks both inherent and residual, now and on the horizon;
• Working in partnership with engineers, you’ll review, challenge, and advise to continuously improving controls;
• Oversee associated control testing relating to providing feedback to the respective areas for improvements;
• Supporting key projects that serve the risk strategy, which may involve regulatory and audit deliverables;
• Acting as the risk and control point of coordination within technology, supporting engineers, offering coaching;
• Escalate issues within technology in a timely manner to the appropriate level;
• Having a sightline across all technology risk and control environments with regular reporting. You’ll identify issues, weaknesses, themes and any actions required

To excel in this role, you’ll also need:

• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to develop effective and trustworthy working relationships with key stakeholders;
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal to be able to articulate complex issues;
• Excellent problem solving and self-management skills in order to solve technical problems tactically and analytically;
• Strong ability to apply proportionality and materiality when assessing and reporting risks and issues;
• Excellent prioritisation skills, with an ability to move between competing priorities concurrently