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Location

Sutton, Greater London | United Kingdom

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Job description

Crown Agents Bank is a vastly growing and regulated UK bank that connects emerging and frontier markets to the rest of the world, using FX and payments technology. We are transforming the way payments and FX move through emerging markets, reducing friction so that more money gets to those who need it. Emerging markets payments are usually challenging, expensive, unreliable and opaque. Our solutions help fix these pain points. Ultimately, we connect traditionally hard-to-reach regions to global financial infrastructure, giving access to the best prices and the fastest, most reliable settlement.

FX and cross-border payments are often complex and expensive, especially when operating in emerging markets. Crown Agents Bank (CAB) wraps its deep and trusted relationships and strength of network around innovative digital capabilities, and cross-border transaction banking solutions to enable fintech, corporates, governments, development organisations and banks to move money to, from, and across often hard-to-reach markets.

Job Description

To develop and maintain a bankwide operational risk control framework and provide 2LoD oversight, challenge independent assurance of control testing activity and support to the wider operational risk team.

Role Responsibilities

• To support the Control Assurance lead in developing and launching the Control Assurance Framework.
• Responsible for creating and maintaining the central control library in Riskonnect with no duplications, standardised articulation clearly defined control attributes with adequate linkages to relevant risks across the business.
• To support the team and where required, allocated business function(s), in developing test scripts. Providing training, as required, to ensure test scripts are written and uploaded in a consistent manner in Riskonnect.
• Responsible for developing and leading the 2LoD operational risk control assurance plan, ensuring no or very limited cross over with other 2LoD lead assurance activities and 3LoD.
• Responsible for performing 2LoD assurance work.
• To support the team in preparing and presenting operational risk control assurance results, findings, and recommendations, where findings have resulted in the identification of follow up actions then these are raised in Riskonnect against the control and are tracked through to closure.
• Supporting the oversight and challenge of KRIs / metrics – as required.
• Support the embedding of the Group Enterprise Risk Management Framework and its associated component parts including the Operational Risk Management Policy in the central functions. To provide 2LoD review, challenge and oversight as required to central functions.
• To support the Business Continuity lead to ensure the banks business continuity requirements are met.
• Responsible for maintaining the Risk and Compliance SharePoint site.
• Support the embedding of an effective risk culture, encourage risk awareness across the Bank and its activities.
• Support in providing MI for reporting purposes in the absence of the Operational Risk Analyst.
• Support emergency Riskonnect system changes if required in the absence of the Operational Risk Analyst. Where required to support the management of 3rd party providers (Riskonnect, Alert Cascade etc.,).

Stakeholder Management

• Working in partnership with the business and control owners to build effective business relationships, becoming the first point of call (from a 2LoD perspective). 

Teamwork

• Work collaboratively across the team to identify knowledge gaps, encourage open dialogue, offer support to one another with a view of working effectively to resolve issues in a proactive manner.

Qualifications

Professional or industry qualification such as IOR, IRM or equivalent is desired but not a requirement.

Experience

• Experience of control testing and assurance work in a 2LoD ort 3LoD capacity.
• Experience of working with a GRC system – Riskonnect is preferred.
• Knowledge of Business Continuity planning and testing activities.
• Knowledge of the UK financial services and regulatory framework.
• Knowledge and experience of managing operational risk and control testing.
• An enhanced understanding of Microsoft Excel.

Skills

• Good stakeholder management skills and able to work well with people at different levels.
• A can do and positive learning attitude.
• Solutions driven mind-set.

Additional Information

• Hybrid working
• Contributory personal pension plan: - Minimum: Employee 2% and Employer 7%. Employer matches contributions in 1% increments to a maximum of: Employee 5% and Employer 10%
• Life Assurance – 4 times annual salary
• Group Income Protection
• Private Medical Insurance – this may include cover for partner and or children at company cost. Cover includes Optical, Dental and Audiology
• Discretionary Bonus
• Competitive Annual Leave
• 2 Volunteering Days
• Benefit Hut

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