Risk Business Partner

at  Peoples Partnership

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Risk Business Partner
About People’s Partnership:
At the heart of our not-for-profit organisation is a commitment and a motivation to make the future-saving experience a simple one for our members. We champion fairness and simplicity, not profit-chasing. Imagine a financial adventure where everyone’s a winner, fuelled by our exceptional service and brought to life by the fantastic individuals who work for us. We’re a diverse employer with a flexible, hybrid working approach, ensuring everyone gets the opportunity to come to work and be the best version of themselves.
What you’ll be doing:
In recent years, the People’s Partnership has embarked on an ambitious and exciting growth strategy which has led to a significant transformation of the business. You will provide insight and challenge to ensure business leaders develop, agree, and deliver on these ambitious, strategically aligned and risk disciplined plans.

The role will be a business partner to a specific department, working with them as a trusted advisor and critical thinking partner, to ensure risks are identified, understood and controlled appropriately to support good customer outcomes and attainment of strategic goals. It will also support the central Risk team in understanding and aggregating risk exposures across the Group.

• Serve as a trusted advisor, collaborating closely with the department and its leadership team, being a critical thinking partner to them and supporting their decision-making processes
• Collaborate with leadership team in the ownership and creation of risk assessments including scenario analysis
• Collaborate with leadership team in the ownership and creation of risk remediation plans
• Monitor risk exposure against appetite, identifying variances and providing recommendations for optimisation
• Support the central Risk team in creating board packs and ad hoc MI to drive business understanding

What we’re looking for:

• Experience in a first- or second-line risk role
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Good attention to detail and accuracy
• Good IT skills (Microsoft applications and GRC systems)
• A team player who can collaborate with stakeholders at all levels to achieve objectives
• Experience of challenging and changing the business
• Organised and able to work with a matrixed team and shared resources to organise the teams’ workload

What you can expect from us:

• Generous pension contributions with an employer contribution of up to 14%
• Real living wage
• Income protection, critical illness cover & death in service insurance
• Employee healthcare
• Parental and adoption leave
• Learning & development opportunities and study support
• Travel season ticket loans
• Subsidised restaurant in our Crawley office
• Volunteering days and charity payroll giving
• Onsite gym
• Ride-to-Work scheme
• Social clubs and events

You can learn more about how we support our employees on our website
Disability Statement
People’s Partnership is an equal opportunities employer. We believe everyone has the right to be treated fairly, with dignity and respect. We are committed to treating all our people (and all who apply for a role at People’s Partnership) equally and enabling them to perform at their best and demonstrate what they have to offer. We are a disability committed employer, please let us know if you need any reasonable adjustments made to our recruitment process (application, selection assessments where relevant, and interview) to enable you to show us the best “you”.

• Serve as a trusted advisor, collaborating closely with the department and its leadership team, being a critical thinking partner to them and supporting their decision-making processes
• Collaborate with leadership team in the ownership and creation of risk assessments including scenario analysis
• Collaborate with leadership team in the ownership and creation of risk remediation plans
• Monitor risk exposure against appetite, identifying variances and providing recommendations for optimisation
• Support the central Risk team in creating board packs and ad hoc MI to drive business understandin