Senior Manager Line 1 Risk, Home Buying

This role will be part of the Home Buying Line 1 Risk Team until 30 June 2027.

Do work that matters:
We are looking for a driven and experienced risk professional to join the Retail Banking Services (RBS) Home Buying Line 1 Risk Team, focused on enabling the safe delivery of key Home Buying initiatives. You will be part of a high-performing team supporting Home Buying to deliver customer, business and technology change safely and effectively.

Your Impact:
As a Senior Manager, you will partner with initiative and business leaders to identify and manage risk through the design and delivery of key Home Buying initiatives. You will work closely with senior stakeholders across RBS and the Group, applying your knowledge of lending products and processes to enable timely delivery while protecting customer, regulatory and risk outcomes.

On any given day, you will:

• Partner with Crews, Squads and initiative teams to embed effective risk management into the delivery of strategic and business-critical initiatives.
• Identify and advise on operational, compliance and customer risks and dependencies that could impact successful delivery.
• Provide pragmatic risk advice and constructive challenge across initiative design, implementation and readiness for go-live.
• Provide control advisory to support effective control design and implementation by initiative teams.
• Navigate risk and compliance requirements and dependencies across Home Buying, RBS and the Group.
• Simplify risk engagement to enable earlier and more effective delivery decisions.

We're interested in hearing from people who have:

• Strong experience supporting complex or business-critical initiatives within financial services.
• Deep understanding of operational and compliance risk and how it applies to business and technology change.
• Strong commercial judgement and the ability to balance delivery objectives with customer, regulatory and risk outcomes.
• Strong influencing skills and the confidence to constructively challenge senior business, product, technology and delivery stakeholders.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to independently drive outcomes across multiple initiatives in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience assessing new or changed products, processes and technology to identify key risks and control requirements.
• Knowledge of Retail Lending products, processes and systems is highly desirable.
• Experience coaching and developing junior team members.

If this sounds like your next career opportunity, please apply now!

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