Finance Platform Risk Manager

LLOYDS BANK PLC; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 67,000 - 74,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid Working

Job Share

Job summary

Lloyds Banking Group is seeking a Finance Platform Risk Manager to oversee risk across Change Execution and IT Systems within the Finance Platform. The role involves partnering with Engineering, Run and Change teams to identify, assess and mitigate technology risks, ensuring effective risk-based decision making.

You will lead risk assessments and reporting for senior leadership, while navigating a hybrid working pattern and engaging with risk specialists across the organisation.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in non-financial risk, operational risk or technology risk governance.
• Demonstrated ability to assess and manage technology-related risks and delivery of change.
• Ability to translate complex risk information into clear business actions.

Responsibilities

• Lead oversight and reporting of the Finance Platform’s Change Execution and IT Systems risk profile.
• Partner with Engineering, Run and Change teams to identify and manage risks.
• Lead risk assessments, control reviews and deep dives; monitor control effectiveness.

Skills

Non-financial risk

Risk management

IT risk

Stakeholder influence

Tools

Risk Open Pages (ROP)

Job description

End Date Friday 20 November 2026

Salary Range £67,023 - £74,470

We support flexible working –

Flexible Working Options: Hybrid Working, Job Share

Job Description Summary

We’re looking for an experienced Risk Manager to join our Strategy, Investment & Business Management team, playing a key role in strengthening how we manage Technology, Change Execution and IT Systems risk. You’ll work at the heart of a complex technology and transformation landscape, partnering across Engineering, Change Delivery, Risk and senior leadership. Bringing your expertise in Non-Financial Risk, you’ll provide insight and constructive challenge, turn complexity into clarity and influence improvements to our risk and control environment. If you enjoy solving complex problems, influencing senior stakeholders and driving meaningful change, this is an opportunity to make a real impact.

Job Title, Salary, Location and Working Pattern

Job Title: Finance Platform Risk Manager

Salary: As per range

Location: Bristol, Harbourside

Hours: Full-time

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.

About this opportunity

We have an exciting opportunity for a Risk Manager to join our Strategy, Investment & Business Management team and help shape the future of our Finance Platform! You’ll support the management and continuous improvement of risks associated with technology systems and the delivery of change. Working across a complex technology and change landscape, you’ll collaborate with engineering, service management, change delivery and risk teams. Your insight, oversight and constructive challenge will help ensure risks are understood, controlled and managed effectively.

What you’ll be doing

• Lead the oversight, assessment and reporting of the Finance Platform’s Change Execution and IT Systems risk profile.
• Partner with Engineering, Run and Change teams to identify and manage technology, resilience and change delivery risks.
• Lead and facilitate risk assessments, control reviews and deep dives, monitoring control effectiveness, issues and emerging risk themes.
• Provide clear insight, constructive challenge and guidance to support effective risk-based decision making.
• Coordinate risk reduction plans and track actions through to effective outcomes.
• Produce clear analysis and executive-level reporting for senior leadership and governance forums.
• Support Internal Audit, Risk Specialists and other assurance activity, finding opportunities to strengthen controls and risk management practices.
• Build strong, trusted relationships with key business partners, using effective engagement, influence and constructive challenge to support positive business and risk outcomes.

Why join us?

If you think all banks are the same, you’re wrong. We’re a pioneering, fast-changing business that’s shaping finance as a force for good. If you’re after a role where you can have an impact and do the best work of your career, you’ve just found it.

What we’re looking for

• Proven experience in non-financial risk, operational risk, technology risk, IT controls, internal audit or a related governance role.
• Demonstrated ability managing or overseeing risks associated with technology systems, operational resilience or the delivery of change.
• Practical knowledge of risk management frameworks, control design and effectiveness, risk assessments, indicators, issues, events and governance processes.
• Experience working with technology or engineering teams, translating technical information into clear business risks, impacts and recommended actions.
• Evidence of influencing and constructively challenging senior partners, supported by strong analysis and reporting to help decision making.

And any of these would be great…

• Experience of IT Systems Risk, Technology Resilience, Service Management, Operational Resilience or Technology Controls.
• Knowledge of change governance and Change Execution risk management.
• Understanding of application lifecycle, incident management, IT change, disaster recovery, cloud technologies or platform engineering environments.
• Experience using risk management systems such as Risk Open Pages (ROP) or equivalent governance platforms.

We’re an inclusive employer

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 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 want to ensure all our candidates have the opportunity to shine. Please let us know if there is anything we can do to make the sure the assessment process works for you.

Our culture and benefits

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• 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
• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

About Lloyds Banking Group

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.