Operations Risk & Control Assurance Officer

Job description

About the team The Operations Assurance Development team sits within the 1.5 Line of Defence and supports the ongoing development and oversight of the first line control environment across Operations. The team works closely with operational areas to help ensure risks and controls are understood, appropriately managed and aligned to regulatory and business expectations. The function consists of five officers reporting into the Senior Operations Assurance Development Manager, supporting activities including control testing, assurance reviews and wider risk and control improvement activity. Working alongside Operations and Risk teams, the function helps promote a strong and consistent control environment. What you will be doing?: In this brand new role, you will have the opportunity to support the strengthening of the 1st line control environment through independent risk identification and assessment, control testing and assessing control effectiveness (operating or design), establishing root cause of control failures and assisting in establishing action management plans when risks and controls are outside of the Group’s Operational Risk appetite. You will work closely with Operationa...