Assistant Risk Manager

LLOYDS BANKING GROUP; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 43,000 - 49,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading banking institution in Leeds seeks an Assistant Risk Manager to provide crucial analytics and oversight regarding risk appetite metrics. This hybrid role requires excellent communication, analytical skills, and proficiency in data visualization tools. Join a collaborative team committed to continuous improvement and enhancing the Group's risk management capabilities.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution up to 15%

Annual performance-related bonus

Share schemes including free shares

28 days’ holiday plus bank holidays

Range of wellbeing initiatives

Qualifications

• Strong ability to influence stakeholders effectively.
• Experience in producing concise and insightful management information.
• Attention to detail in data outputs.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the Enterprise Wide Risk Management Report.
• Manage key analytical tools for risk reporting.
• Collaborate with team members to enhance reporting capabilities.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Analytical techniques

Data manipulation

Data visualization (PowerBI, Power Automate)

Tools

Excel

PowerBI

Power Automate

Tableau

Job description

Key Details

End date Thursday 25 September 2025

Salary range £43,803 - £48,670

We support flexible working Learn more about flexible working.

Agile Working Options Job Share; Reduced Hours; Hybrid Working

Job description

JOB TITLE: Assistant Risk Manager

SALARY: as per pay range

LOCATION: Leeds Wellington Place

ADDITIONAL LOCATION(S): Edinburgh New Uberior House

HOURS: Full Time – 35 hours per week

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites.

Job Description

Our team sits within Enterprise Risk Insights & Strategy (ERIS) which forms part of Enterprise Wide Risk Management (EWRM) within the Risk Chief Operating Office (Risk COO).

The role will involve a significant level of analytics and oversight and include the monitoring and associated reporting of our key Board Risk Appetite Metrics and Management Measures, using data to analyse and comment on trends whilst gaining rare insight into the Group’s risk profile. Your analysis will be used to help identify present and emerging risks as well as shape how Business Process Mapping can provide fresh insights into the Group’s risk landscape. As a team, we encourage each other to challenge existing practices and find ways to drive continuous improvement, acting as a key partner in the development of new tools and frameworks.

This opportunity would be ideally suited to an analytical and inquisitive mind, with excellent communication skills, a passion for learning and an appetite for engaging with colleagues across the Group. Working in our team would also provide excellent awareness of the Group’s risk and control profile as well as exposure to senior leaders. Overall, we’re looking for someone with a can-do attitude who is comfortable with data and enjoys working with others in a fast-paced environment.

Day to day responsibilities

• Provide significant contributions to the collation and presentation of the Enterprise Wide Risk Management Report content, ensuring messaging is clear and fit for Executive and Board consumption.
• Management and maintenance of key analytical tools using Power Automate, Excel, PowerBI and Tableau.
• Proactive monitoring and management of Risk Appetite metrics and measures ensuring timely and accurate reporting.
• Specialist point of contact for resolving queries from a range of stakeholders and supporting ad-hoc data requests.
• Champion the team’s automation, simplification and innovation agenda, seeking to increase capacity through continuously improving tools and processes.
• Proactive collaboration with team members and partners in other teams across Risk Function and across the wider Group to evolve and improve reporting capability.
• Proactive identification of areas for deep dive analysis to supplement Group reporting on a range of risk and control topics as the need arises.

What you’ll need

Excellent communication and relationship management skills, with the ability to work with and influence effectively across different stakeholder levels, conveying potentially complex concepts in easy-to-understand ways. Proactively engages and anticipates stakeholder needs.

A team player who is comfortable working in a team with many priorities and able to collaborate to ensure deadlines are met in order to achieve the best possible outcomes for stakeholders, customers and colleagues.

Experience in using analytical techniques to extract and interpret large datasets to produce concise and insightful MI from raw data, with experience in producing high quality, accurate outputs suitable for senior audiences with exceptional attention to detail.

Excellent Excel, data manipulation and data visualisation skills (such as PowerBI and Power Automate), and the ability to transform data into compelling insight.

Awareness of the importance of risk management and control.

About working for us

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer Initiative.

We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.

We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.

Benefits

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance-related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 28 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Ready to start growing with purpose? Apply today.