Defence Business Services (DBS) Finance and Corporate Services (F&CS) Enterprise Risk Manager

Are you a dedicated person who is passionate about making a difference?
Would you like to work for the Ministry of Defence?
Defence Business Services (DBS) is one of the largest shared service organisations in Europe that provides a wide range of corporate services, to over 1.2 million end users, including serving and past military and families, as well as MoD civil servants and industry. DBS delivers large scale administration and smaller specialist services to enable the wider MOD to focus on its core aims, maintaining the UK’s Defence and Security. Services include Human Resources, Pay, Veterans, Finance and Procurement.
+ Our Vision - To support UK defence customers with outstanding service every time.
+ Our Mission – Together we will proudly support Defence, continuously improving and delivering flexible, timely, sustainable and value for money services that underpin the whole force and enhance operational capability.
DBS is committed to creating a great place to work for all our colleagues. We are building an inclusive culture and respectful environment that reflects the diversity of the society.
We want to maximise the potential of everyone who chooses to work for us through opportunities to develop your skills and experience. We also offer a range of flexible working patterns and support to make a fulfilling career accessible to you and offer a Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%. Where your role permits, we support a blended working approach alternatively known as hybrid working.
Where business needs allow, some roles may be suitable for a combination of office and home-based working. This is a non-contractual arrangement where all office-based employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in office, subject to capacity and any required workplace adjustments.
Requirements to attend other locations for official business, or work in another MOD office, will also count towards this level of attendance. Applicants can request further information regarding how this may work in their team from the Vacancy Holder (see advert for contact details). Defence Business Services cannot respond to any questions about working arrangements.
DBS has recently undertaken a review of its operational locations in the North West, and have consolidated all activities in Norcross, Blackpool. A further move, to the new Government Hub at Talbot Gateway in Blackpool, is scheduled to take place in 2026.
Come and join the DBS community today!, The DBS Enterprise Risk Manager is the lead risk expert within Defence Business Services, responsible for the maintenance, implementation, and assurance of the Enterprise Risk Management Framework for DBS, in accordance with JSP 892 and the Orange Book.
This post is the lead in driving risk transformation within DBS, utilising digital capabilities and reporting to enable inter-DBS risk mapping from child to adult risks, and child to child as “siblings”, as well as maintaining the digitised approaches already in place. This includes:
+ Ongoing management and oversight of the Corporate Risk register, including monthly risk calls with corporate risk owners;
+ Reviewing business area risk registers, digitising where needed, and providing an enterprise analytical review over risk data, as well as advice and guidance to business area risk leads;
+ Maintenance of the Assumptions, Dependencies, Opportunities and Threats register for DBS;
+ Oversight of all risk and business related actions that map to risks;
+ Oversight of controls which map to risks, outside of the Internal Control Assurance Framework;
+ Risk mapping within the Service Catalogue assurance map, ensuring risk data is captured and mapped to support resilience over service delivery; and
+ Assurance reporting against the Orange Book Risk Management Framework.
Leading on the annual update of Risk Appetite for DBS, reviewing the Orange Book and Defence guidance to ensure appetite is aligned and supports delivery. Producing the Risk Appetite and Risk Identification slide deck for presentation at the DBS Board. Reviewing risks and ensuring appetite is actively captured for all Corporate risks, whilst supporting business area risks with Risk Appetite mapping.
Regular risk reporting, including responding to the Quarterly Performance and Risk Report issued by Defence Risk and Assurance, quarterly reporting to the DBS Board, regular reporting to the Audit and Risk Assurance Committee, as well as any other risk reporting requirements.
Create and implement the annual deep dive programme over Corporate Risks within the DBS Board, engaging with the Secretariat to ensure reviews are included as part of the DBS Board forward plan. Producing risk deep dive information review packs for presentation during the deep dive, capturing outcomes from the deep dive and actions, following up with a summary report.
+ Maintain implement, and assure the Enterprise Risk Management Framework for DBS annually, in accordance with JSP 892 and the Orange Book;
+ Management of the DBS Corporate Risk Register, engaging with risk owners monthly;
+ Responding to Defence Risk and Assurance on the Quarterly Performance and Risk Report;
+ Leading on the risk transformation work stream;
+ Maintaining the Assumptions, Dependencies, Opportunities, and Threats register for DBS;
+ Assurance over Orange Book Risk Control Framework implementation;
+ Creation of the annual risk deep dive programme;
+ Creation of the risk deep dive information packs and subsequent review reports;
+ Creation of risk reports for governance forums;
+ Annual creation of the Risk Appetite information pack and risk identification presentation for the DBS Board;
+ Annual update of the DBS Risk Appetite., We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
+ Leadership
+ Making Effective Decisions
+ Communicating and Influencing
+ Seeing the Big Picture
+ Delivering at Pace, Please ensure that at the application and interview stages of the campaign you review the Success Profiles Framework to assist you in the demonstration of your skills and experience.
When choosing your Behaviour examples, please make sure you use real life scenarios that relate to your own experiences. Whilst technology may help to enhance your written submission, presenting the ideas of others or those generated by technology, could result in your application being rejected.
Your suitability for the role will be assessed using the Success Profile elements that have been chosen for this campaign. Each element will be scored accordingly, and the successful candidate will be appointed on merit.
Applications will be sifted on all Success Profile elements, but in the event of a high number of applications, an initial sift will be conducted on the following success profile elements: Experience; Personal Statement. In this instance the remaining elements will be tested at interview.
At the application stage you will be assessed against the following, A minimum of 2 full working days’ notice will be provided for interviews.We endeavour to stick to these dates, but these are subject to change around business needs.
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.If you need to advise us that you need additional help or reasonable adjustments for the recruitment process, please contact: DBS-EnhancedRecruitmentTeam@mod.gov.uk
MOD Recruitment Satisfaction Survey – we may contact you regarding your experience to help us improve our customer satisfaction. The survey is voluntary and anonymous. You may however be given the opportunity to provide additional information to help us improve our service which includes the collection of some personal data as defined by the United Kingdom General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR). The MOD Privacy Notice sets out how we will use your personal data and your rights.
As a result of the changes to the UK immigration rules which came into effect on 1 January 2021, the Ministry of Defence will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa under the points-based system, where a role has been deemed to be business critical.
The role currently being advertised has not been assessed as business critical and is therefore NOT open to applications from those who will require sponsorship under the points-based system. Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected, and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn.
When choosing your Behaviour examples, please make sure you use real life scenarios that relate to your own experiences. Whilst technology may help to enhance your written submission, presenting the ideas of others or those generated by technology, could result in your application being rejected.
To assist with your application please find attached -
DBS Candidate Information Guide - Working for Defence Business Services - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
(26) UK Ministry of Defence: Life , LinkedIn
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
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Nationality requirements
This job is broadly open to the following groups:
+ UK nationals
+ nationals of the Republic of Ireland
+ nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
+ nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
+ nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
+ individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
+ Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
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Working for the Civil Service
The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Diversity and Inclusion
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

+ Project Management qualification (Prince, APM, Agile)
+ Risk qualification with Institute of Risk Management, or equivalent
Desirable Skillsets:
+ Experience in a high profile analytical role, enabling complex problem solving
+ Experience in the production of Case Studies, Business Cases and Reports, providing options and recommendations to inform senior decision making.
+ Interpersonal & Relationship Management skills for engaging with personnel of all grades
+ Flexible & able to deliver to tight, changing timescales
+ Effective written, verbal and presentational communication skills. Able to communicate in a succinct & clear manner and stand ground when needed.
+ Comprehensive knowledge of Risk Management, policies and regulations, + Experience - CV
+ Experience - Personal Statement - In no more than 1000 words, please provide evidence of how you meet the criteria set out in the job description. You may wish to include examples of how you have tackled similar tasks or demonstrated the skills outlined in the job advert.
At the interview stage you will be assessed against the following:
+ Behaviour - Leadership
+ Behaviour - Making Effective Decisions
+ Behaviour - Communicating and Influencing
+ Behaviour - Seeing the Big Picture
+ Behaviour - Delivering at Pace
In the rare case where individuals have exact matching scores, the order of merit will be determined based on the behaviour scores at interview in the following order:
+ 1 - Behaviour - Leadership
+ 2 - Behaviour - Seeing the Big Picture
+ 3 - Behaviour - Delivering at Pace
+ 4 - Behaviour - Communicating and Influencing
+ 5 - Behaviour - Making Effective Decisions
If candidate scores are still exact, the merit order will then be determined on the sift score in the following order:
+ 1 - Experience - Personal statement
+ 2 - Experience - CV

Alongside your salary of £43,080, Ministry of Defence contributes £12,480 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
+ An environment with flexible working options Monday-Friday
+ 25 days paid annual leave rising (1 day per year) to 30 days upon completion of 5 years’ service (pro rata). In addition to 8 public holidays per year, you will also receive leave for HM The King’s birthday
+ Hybrid working where role permits
+ An opportunity to be considered for Reward & Recognition- £250-£5000 per year.
+ Family-friendly policies including- parental leave and adoption leave
+ Learning and development tailored to your role
+ Professional and personal development of skills
+ A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
+ Minimum of 15 days special leave in a rolling 12 month period for volunteer reserve commitments
+ Special paid leave to volunteer up to 6 days per year
The post does not offer relocation expenses.
Please be advised that the Department is conducting a review of all pay related allowances which could impact on those allowances that the post currently being advertised attracts.
External recruits who join the MOD who are new to the Civil Service will be subject to a six-month probation period.
This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.