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Senior Risk Assurance Executive

Salary Starting from £43,000
Location Cardiff
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This is a Permanent, vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.

We are seeking a Senior Risk Assurance Executive to play a key role in supporting the development and ongoing effectiveness of our group-wide Risk Management Framework.

Acting as a trusted advisor to the Risk Assurance Director, you will provide independent second-line oversight of business risks, including emerging areas, while leading a structured programme of controls testing across the Group.

This is a high-impact role where you will coordinate assurance across priority risk areas, deliver insight to senior management and Board-level audiences, and act as the central point of contact for internal audit activity. Through close collaboration with stakeholders, you will help strengthen controls, enhance risk processes and promote a proactive risk culture across DBW.

 

Key responsibilities

  • Lead the development and ongoing operation of the Risk Management Framework, including policies and procedures
  • Design, implement and oversee the Group’s Controls Testing Framework
  • Deliver high-quality reporting on risk registers, control effectiveness and KRIs for Board and committees
  • Coordinate internal audit activity, including audit delivery, action tracking and validation
  • Conduct regular testing of internal controls and drive improvements where needed
  • Work with stakeholders to identify and remediate control weaknesses
  • Support and deliver risk training to embed a strong risk culture across the organisation
  • Contribute to emerging risk frameworks, including Third-Party Risk, AI and Operational Resilience
  • Lead assurance-related projects and cross-cutting initiatives

About you

Essential

  • Experience leading risk and assurance activity within a regulated environment
  • Strong experience producing reports for senior leadership or Board-level audiences
  • Experience contributing to risk frameworks, policies or assurance programmes
  • Strong knowledge of financial services regulation
  • Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills
  • Strong analytical, organisational and communication skills
  • Confident decision-maker who takes ownership of work from start to finish
  • Strong attention to detail and ability to work with data (including Excel)

Desirable

  • Understanding of internal controls and governance frameworks
  • Experience delivering training or presenting to senior audiences
  • Knowledge of AI, Operational Resilience or Third-Party Risk frameworks
  • Experience undertaking research and producing briefings or advice

Our mission is to unlock economic potential in Wales and enhance the local economy by providing sustainable, effective finance. 

When our businesses thrive, they create a higher number of better quality jobs. The taxes they pay strengthen our public finances. The people they employ strengthen our communities. When Welsh businesses are strong, Wales is strong.

We continuously monitor industry best practices so we can deliver excellence while offering our colleagues flexibility and a great work/life balance:

  • Offering a competitive salary and benefits package
  • Providing office spaces and a work environment that promotes smarter working
  • Encouraging our colleagues to adopt a working pattern that fits in with their personal circumstances as well as the business needs

We champion an equal and diverse workplace and continually implement strategies to make sure we’re always achieving this:

  • Delivering a well–being programme each year targeted at physical and mental well–being
  • Achieved certification by 'Great Place To Work' and included in the UK's Best Workplaces™ list.
  • Using exit interviews to seek feedback and continuously improve
  • Acting on feedback from annual staff surveys and other feedback throughout the year
  • Continuously reviewing performance statistics and acting where appropriate

We deliver a dedicated well–being strategy that supports the mental, physical and financial well–being of our colleagues:

  • Aligning our objectives with our business goals and recognising great performance
  • Investing in our colleagues’ development by providing a range of training opportunities to meet individual, team, and business needs
  • Rolling out the career progression framework providing a structured opportunity to progress all parts of the business

People are our greatest asset and fundamental to our long–term success:

  • Delivering smarter working and digital transformation, measuring the impact on job satisfaction and productivity
  • Holding regular innovation workshops and encouraging agile projects through our project initiatives
  • Promoting an inclusive culture through regular newsletters and communication and a collaborative means of gathering and using feedback from across the Development Bank Group
  • Actively seeking feedback from our colleagues, particularly at the half year and annual events

Below is a taste of what we offer. Check out the full list here.

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