Head of Technology GRC

Vermelo RPO; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Yearly bonus

Private Medical Insurance

Life Assurance 4x annual salary

Hybrid Working

Modern, vibrant offices

Job summary

Markerstudy Group is seeking a Head Of Technology GRC to lead governance, risk and compliance across technology platforms. The role focuses on risk management, assurance and regulatory compliance to safeguard operations while enabling innovation. It is a hybrid role with 2 days per week from select offices.

You will establish a robust control environment, manage auditors and collaborate with senior stakeholders to embed risk-based decision making across payments, GDPR, FCA and PRA frameworks.

Qualifications

• Ability to communicate complex technical issues clearly.
• Deep knowledge of risk and control frameworks (payments, GDPR, FCA & PRA, ISO27001, NIST).
• Proven experience in managing auditors.
• Strong influencing skills to affect opinions, plans or behaviours.
• Good judgment and urgency with commitment to ethics and integrity.

Responsibilities

• Establish a Technology GRC function.
• Own and mature the IT risk management framework.
• Report risk mitigation strategies to senior leadership.
• Establish and maintain a multi-regulation Controls Framework.
• Create reporting for risk and audit committees at group and divisional levels.
• Build a high performing GRC team and maintain staff morale.

Skills

Communicate complex issues

Risk & control frameworks

Auditor management

Influencing skills

Decision making

Ethics & integrity

Job description

Head Of Technology GRC

Markerstudy Group have an exciting opportunity to share.

This is a hybrid role with the requirement to work 2 days a week from either our Manchester, Stoke, Chesterfield, Peterborough or Tunbridge Wells office.

Role Purpose

To lead the Technology Governance, Risk & Compliance activities, ensuring technology solutions align to overarching business objectives while safeguarding it against risk?.

The role provides strategic leadership and direction across governance, risk management, assurance, and compliance activities. It ensures that technology risks are transparent, controlled, and embedded within enterprise risk management processes, while enabling innovation and digital transformation.? The role is accountable for establishing a robust control environment, providing independent oversight and assurance, and influencing senior stakeholders to make informed, risk-based decisions.?

Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities

• Establish a Technology GRC function?.
• Own and mature the IT risk management framework.?
• Support departmental strategies by setting risk objectives.?
• Report and recommendrisk mitigation strategies to senior leadership?.
• Establish and maintain a multi regulation Controls Framework.
• Creating reporting for risk and audit committees at group and divisional levels.?
• Establish external relationships with industry peers and working groups?.
• Ensure M-Powered maintains operational compliance to key regulations such as payments, GDPR, FCA & PRA.?
• Ensure all regulatory processes and documentation are maintained?.
• Ensure greater collaboration on risk and audit remediation activities including the development of strategic solutions where appropriate.?
• Build a high performing GRC team, ensuring staff morale and wellbeing are considered?.

Skills, Experience and Knowledge

• An ability to communicate complex technical issues.
• An in-depth knowledge of risk and control frameworks, payment, FCA, PRAregulations, GDPR, ISO27001, NIST?.
• Proven experience of managing auditors.
• A demonstrated ability to use positive influencing skills effectively tomodify opinions, plans, or behaviours?.
• Strong decision-making capabilities, with a proven ability to weigh the relative costs and benefits of potential actions andidentifythe mostappropriate one?.
• Has good judgment, a sense of urgency,demonstrablecommitment tohigh standardsof ethics, regulatory compliance, customerserviceand business integrity?.

Benefits

• Starting with 25 days annual leave which increases with service
• Opportunity for a yearly bonus
• Private Medical Insurance
• Life Assurance 4x annual salary
• Collaborative, fast paced working environment
• Hybrid Working
• Modern, vibrant offices