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Santander Corporate & Investment Banking (SCIB) is Santander's global division that supports some of the world's most complex and sophisticated corporate and institutional clients, offering customised services and value-added wholesale products to best meet their needs.

The Business Risk & Controls Manager will operate within the first line Business Controls Unit and will be responsible for coordinating and enhancing the supervision and control arrangements supporting the Banking and Global Transaction Banking businesses.

You’ll provide independent and constructive first-line challenge to business risk owners, oversee the operation and development of the relevant control frameworks, and provide senior management with clear, evidence-based information on the effectiveness of the control environment.

You’ll bring together risk information from across the business and control functions, identify emerging issues and control weaknesses, and ensure that actions are appropriately owned, tracked, escalated and brought to closure.

The difference you’ll make:

• Leading and coordinating supervision arrangements, including regular supervision meetings, forward-looking agendas, management information, actions and escalation
• Maintaining an integrated and forward-looking view of the risk and control environment, bringing together relevant information from the business, Operations, Technology, Risk, Compliance, Financial Crime and Internal Audit
• Providing constructive challenge to business and control owners regarding the identification, assessment, management and escalation of risks, control weaknesses and emerging issues
• Overseeing the management and continued development of the control frameworks
• Supporting the businesses in conducting annual Risk and Control Self-Assessments across central, enterprise-wide and business-specific risks and controls
• Maintaining oversight of the relevant risk and control inventories, ensuring that material risks and controls are appropriately documented, owned, assessed and kept current
• Supporting improvements to the quality of controls and processes operated within the business, promoting a “control by design” approach to product development, process change and other business initiatives
• Overseeing the management of identified audit findings, compliance testing actions, risk events and control weaknesses, including challenge of root cause, remediation plans, target dates and closure evidence
• Supporting new product initiatives and material business or process changes affecting Banking and GTB
• Contributing to the automation, digitalisation and simplification of risk-management and control activities, including improvements to management information, data quality and control monitoring

What you’ll bring:

Our people are our greatest strength. Every individual contributes unique perspectives that make us stronger as a team and as an organisation. We’re enabling teams to go beyond by valuing who they are and empowering what they bring.

The following requirements represent the knowledge, skills, and abilities essential for success in this role.

• Extensive Banking and/or Global Transactional Banking experience or knowledge in a regulated wholesale financial services context
• Demonstrable experience in and understanding of the components of an operational risk management framework, the toolkits available and how they apply practically in a business setting to proactively identify and mitigate risks
• Experience in leading small change programmes effectively, to time and budget
• Proficiency in the Microsoft Office Suite
• Well-developed relationship building, collaboration and influencing skills at all levels
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Proactive, solutions-focused and able to maintain delivery across competing priorities
• Educated to Degree level, or equivalent experience in Banking and Financial Markets

It would also be nice for you to have:

• Proven track record in managing and developing others
• Experience in automation/simplification programmes
• Previous experience in a role covering global functions and geographies

What else you need to know.

This role is based at our offices in Triton Square, London located within easy walking distance from Warren Street and Euston.

We want our people to thrive at work and home, and also be able to deliver the best outcomes for our customers and to help each other develop.

Equal Opportunities.

Santander is proud of being an organization where there are equal opportunities regardless of age, gender, disability, civil status, race, religion or sexual orientation. We are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible application process for all candidates.

How we’ll reward you.

Your contribution matters, and it’s recognised. You can expect a fair, competitive reward package that reflects the impact you create and the value you deliver.

As well as a competitive salary, you’ll enjoy a benefits package that you can tailor to your needs.

• Eligible for a discretionary performance-related annual bonus.
• We put 8% of salary into your pension, even if you don’t contribute yourself. We’ll pay in up to 12.5% of salary, if you contribute as well, and you can take some of our contribution in cash if you prefer.
• 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, which increases to 31 days after 5yrs service, with the option to purchase up to 5 contractual days per year.
• Company funded individual private medical insurance.
• Voluntary healthcare benefits at discounted rates such as private medical insurance for your family, dental insurance, and health assessments.
• Protection for you and your family, with company-funded death-in-service benefit and income protection insurance, and the option to take advantage of discounted rates for additional life assurance and critical illness cover.
• Share in Santander’s success by saving or investing in our share plans.

Learn more about our benefits and family friendly policies

What to do next:

If this sounds like a role you’re interested in, then please apply.