Risk & Assurance Specialist

Requirements of the role

The FCA regulates the conduct of 45,000 firms in the UK to ensure our financial markets are honest, fair and competitive. Follow this link to find out more About the FCA.

The Change Directorate partners with our divisional colleagues to help shape, deliver, and embed strategic, regulatory, and operational change.

The Change Directorate is made up of three specialist departments and an Operations Team. The Risk & Assurance Specialist will sit within the Operations Team, reporting into the Operations & Assurance Manager.

The Change Directorate Operations Team ensures that the Change Portfolio is affordable, is aligned to both organisational priorities and available change resources and that projects are being well managed and governed to ensure successful delivery and realisation of benefits.

What will you be doing?

• Monitor risk inputs from across the portfolio, assessing data sets, performing analysis and generating reports to enable effective mitigation planning and business resilience
• Execution of the Delivery Assurance capability to keep delivery safe in line with our change delivery framework and to manage the inherent delivery risks associated with our complex change eco-system
• Oversee the local risk management framework, ensuring effective risk identification, assessment, mitigation and reporting.​ Ensuring local compliance to organisation’s risk management framework

• Facilitate communication between the risk, audit and governance committees and ensure alignment with the organisation’s strategic objectives
• Contribute towards the successful implementation of FCA risk framework, for example by supporting the Risk and Control Self-Assessment (RCSA) process, to provide operational assurance to the Director that risks are being managed within risk appetite
• Develop strong working relationships to facilitate successful risk management within the Three Lines of Defence (3LoD) model

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