Risk Management Business Partner

**Introduction**
- Through our client-facing brands Metropolitan and Momentum, with Momentum Multiply (our wellness and lifestyle rewards programme), and our other specialist brands, including Guardrisk and Eris Property Group, the group enables business and people from all walks of life to achieve their financial goals and life aspirations.**Role Purpose**
- Risk Business Partner for the Investo Business Unit, responsible for the overall risk profile of the business unit.**Requirements**:

- Degree in business / finance / law / Actuarial Science (relevant to the BU)
- Relevant post-graduate degree (e.g. MBA, Actuarial Science / Risk Management and/or Compliance)
- 8 - 10 years’ relevant industry experience, preferably with at least 3 - 5 years’ in a managerial capacity within a Risk and/or Compliance function
- Essential

**Knowledge**
- Relevant industry and technical skills and experience, with an ability to provide strategic leadership where required
- Understand and has experience in IT systems and digitalisation initiatives
- Understanding of the BU’s risk framework and how function-specific risk elements are managed
- Strong report-writing and review skills with excellent attention to detail
- Strong quantitative, financial and accounting knowledge
- Comprehensive risk management skills encompassing the regulatory, governance, risk and compliance landscape
- Understanding of Enterprise Risk Management (ERM), and Own Risk and Solvency Assessment (ORSA) and relevant local legislation and regulations impacting risk management

**Duties & Responsibilities**
- Being seen as a trusted advisor and valued partner rather than policeman or whistle-blower (not consulted as a last resort)
- Getting the balance right between supporting, influencing and challenging, as well as balancing short and long-term needs
- Responding quickly to regulatory, market and industry developments and trends
- Managing change with stakeholders who do not want to engage
- Managing the balance between being firm, assertive and objective but at the same time responsive and open-minded

**INTERNAL PROCESS**
- Continually liaise with individual risk owners to understand, manage and optimise end-to-end risk identification, assessment, monitoring, quantification, treatment and reporting processes
- Continuously monitor and evaluate the overall risk profile of the business unit across the risk spectrum
- Pull the risk picture together (financial risks, operational risks and legal and compliance views) to provide a combined assurance view of the business unit
- Ensure the audit plan speaks to the risks identified in the risk plan
- Influence and shape business decisions by integrating understanding of the risk-management life-cycle into business planning
- Communicate clearly and concisely, showing courage in being willing to challenge, particularly up-the-line
- Review working risk strategy in the light of changing requirements and monitor the implementation thereof
- Enhance relationships between own function and key internal stakeholders to improve reporting and wider understanding of the risk profile

**CLIENT**
- Build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders at all levels and the wider Risk, Legal and Compliance community to remove hurdles and obstacles and co-create an empowered and risk-aware culture
- Engage with the business management team by giving them risk support and guidelines, ensuring they are operationally sound and managing compliance with regulations
- Engage with relevant internal stakeholders to advise them on the risk profile and to keep them in the loop of issues that need to be escalated
- Engage with Risk, Legal and Compliance teams to co-create appropriate and effective controls across the risk spectrum
- Lead by example in contributing to a culture that builds rewarding relationships, facilitates feedback and provides exceptional client service
- Identify changing client needs and incorporate client feedback into improved business processes and systems
- Identify and drive ongoing efficiencies, e.g. through automation

**PEOPLE**
- Act at all times in ways that are consistent with Momentum Metropolitan’s brand and values
- Continuously drive own professional development and engage constructively with performance feedback
- Handle stress in ways that do not negatively impact others
- Continually share, debate and communicate learnings
- Work collaboratively with others to achieve shared goals, including flagging and debating issues constructively
- Positively influence and manage change

**FINANCE**
- Act in an ethical, transparent and morally defensible manner, including highlighting unethical practices
- Identify financial and business risks and escalate accordingly
- Identify opportunities to enhance efficiencies and reduce wasteful expenditure

**Competencies**
- Thinking Critically and cennectively
- Builds collaborative relationships
- Developing Strategies
- Influences with impa