Senior IT Systems Risk Specialist

We're looking for a Senior IT Systems Risk Specialist to support with leading and developing its risk specialist centre of excellence, to support robust risk management in alignment with the Group's Enterprise Risk Management Framework (ERMF). This will include giving our senior leaders and Risk Owners in these businesses advice on their risk appetite decisions, safely, and at pace. To assure our strategic transformation on this scale we need you to have a breadth and depth of knowledge in current tech, and we want you to be passionate about its application and how we manage its risk; prepare to disrupt the norm in the pursuit of the best possible customer and staff experience. You should have people at your heart; we strive for excellent customer experience but to achieve this we focus on our people - building a culture around continued learning and support so everyone can feel bold to share new ideas and solutions. You'll have deep operational risk knowledge and provide thought leadership, insight and oversight that supports the implementation of the second line of defence and executes its roles and responsibilities. You'll lead our approach to implementing risk policy, appetite, and control objectives to enable the delivery of customer, regulatory and business strategic outcomes., We're looking for a Senior IT Systems Risk Specialist to support with leading and developing its risk specialist centre of excellence, to support robust risk management in alignment with the Group's Enterprise Risk Management Framework (ERMF). This will include giving our senior leaders and Risk Owners advice on their risk appetite decisions, safely, and at pace. To assure our strategic transformation on this scale we need you to have a breadth and depth of knowledge in current tech, and we want you to be passionate about its application and how we manage its risk; prepare to disrupt the norm in the pursuit of the best possible customer and staff experience. You'll have deep operational risk knowledge and provide thought leadership, insight and oversight that supports the implementation of the second line of defence and executes its roles and responsibilities. You'll lead our approach to implementing risk policy, appetite, and control objectives to enable the delivery of customer, regulatory and business strategic outcomes. What will you be doing? Influencing and consulting on Operational Technology Risk & Control:

• Managing and driving the close relationship between Risk and Control owner teams and being their Operational Risk Specialist business partner, consulting them on key operational tech risk and control matters.
• Providing pragmatic advice to support data-lead and well-informed key risk decisions and trade-offs (balancing commerciality and risk appetite), being bold to 'call it', and influence senior decision makers.
Shaping and implementing Governance and Compliance
• Managing the development and implementation of a risk and control oversight plan to assess compliance to relevant laws, regulations, industry standards and controls.
• Supporting Risk and Control owners to address control deficiencies and identifying remedial actions following operational risk events and breaches.
Reporting, Monitoring and setting Key Risk Indicators
• Identifying and developing key risk indicators (KRIs) to enable appropriate monitoring and assisting with the development and implementation of effective, ongoing data-led operational Risk control objectives to meet the needs or risk and control owners, control specialist teams, Audit and external regulators.
• Regularly monitoring and validating the effectiveness of the design of control measures to ensure they are achieving the control objectives.
  
  Detailed knowledge key technology risks, ideally ones facing financial services groups, with a proven ability to shape and drive the strategy and implementation of a company's Technical Risk Operational Risk.
Future vision and understanding of emerging technology and risks
• Experience in effectively interpreting new operational risk regulations and emerging technology innovations (inc. AI, Digital Ledger Technology, Quantum) and anticipating the impact of changes and act accordingly.
Data-lead decision-making
• Effective and timely decision-making skills that keeps the organisation moving forward whilst skilfully balancing difficult trade-offs.
• Assimilating different sources of data and complex information to effectively problem-solve and make relevant conclusions and recommendations.
Governance, Risk and Regulations
• Having deep knowledge of relevant laws, regulations and industry best-practice and using that knowledge to establish the risk appetite, policies, control objectives and performance indicators around technology risk within a large organisation, whilst continuously monitoring and reporting on these.
Effective communication skills and inclusive leadership
• Being a strong, influencing communicator with a track-record of inspiring others by building close working partnerships and gaining followership and commitment to future action through personal integrity, collaboration and Inclusive leadership within Technology Risk Management space.
  
  Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms!
We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity, neurodiversity or culture and we welcome applications from under-represented groups. We're disability confident, so if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know. We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
If you're excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We'd love to hear from you! At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop. We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person. We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we're building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.