VP, Business Risk & Control Manager – Banking and GTB | SCIB

Overview

In this role you will lead the first-line risk and control program for Banking and Global Transaction Banking within Santander SCIB. You will coordinate supervision, maintain an integrated view of risk and control, and provide evidence-based challenge to risk owners. You will drive improvements to control frameworks and support risk and control self-assessments across the business. This is a high-impact role focused on design, governance, and remediation in a complex, regulated environment.

Pay / Benefits

• pension contribution
• private medical insurance
• discretionary annual bonus
• holiday entitlement 30 days (31 after 5 years)
• share plans
• life assurance and income protection

Responsibilities

• Lead supervision arrangements and forward-looking governance, including MI, actions, and escalation
• Maintain an integrated, forward-looking risk and control view across businesses, operations, technology, risk, compliance, financial crime and internal audit
• Provide constructive challenge to owners on risk identification, assessment, management and escalation
• Oversee ongoing development of control frameworks and enhancements to risk and control inventories
• Support annual Risk and Control Self-Assessments for central, enterprise-wide and business-specific risks and controls
• Oversee audit findings, compliance testing actions, risk events and control weaknesses, including root cause analysis and remediation tracking
• Support new product initiatives and significant business or process changes affecting Banking and GTB
• Contribute to automation, digitalisation and simplification of risk-management and control activities, including data quality and monitoring

Key requirements

• Extensive Banking and/or Global Transactional Banking experience in a regulated wholesale context
• Solid understanding of operational risk management framework and practical application to proactively identify and mitigate risks
• Experience leading small change programmes to time and budget
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite
• Strong relationship building, collaboration and influencing skills at all levels
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Proactive, solutions-focused and able to manage competing priorities
• Educated to Degree level, or equivalent experience in Banking and Financial Markets

• relationship building
• collaboration
• influencing
• operational risk management framework
• risk assessment and control design
• data quality and control monitoring

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