Hybrid Enterprise Risk & Assurance Lead

LPPA Pensions; Preston; Ibrido; GBP 36.000 - 44.000; Tempo pieno

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Pension scheme

Health plan

Dental plan

Birthday leave

Free parking

Descrizione del lavoro

LPPA is seeking a Risk & Assurance Officer to drive enterprise risk management and assurance across the organization. You’ll maintain risk registers, coordinate internal assurance, and provide clear, decision-useful reporting to senior leaders and governance forums.

The role is hybrid, with two days in Preston, Lancashire, and a circa £40,000 salary plus benefits. You will work with risk, governance and business stakeholders to identify, assess and report on strategic, operational and regulatory

Competenze

• Substantial practical experience in enterprise risk management, internal control, assurance, audit or a comparable governance role.
• Experience of leading risk reviews, control assessments or assurance activity from planning through to reporting and action follow-up.
• Experience maintaining corporate or departmental risk registers and providing constructive challenge to risk owners.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise risk management, risk appetite, internal controls and assurance arrangements.
• Understanding of the three lines model, operational resilience, business continuity and third-party risk.
• Strong analytical, critical-thinking and report-writing skills, with the ability to translate complex risk information into clear recommendations.
• Confidence to challenge senior stakeholders professionally, work independently and take ownership of defined frameworks, processes and outputs.
• High standards of accuracy, integrity, discretion and professional independence.

Mansioni

• Lead the day-to-day operation and continuous development of LPPA’s enterprise risk management framework, ensuring it remains effective, proportionate and aligned with strategic objectives.
• Maintain departmental risk registers, ensuring risks, controls, mitigations, actions and ownership are clearly documented and regularly reviewed.
• Lead periodic risk reviews and deep-dive assessments, working with senior leaders and business owners to identify changes in exposure and control effectiveness.
• Provide independent and constructive challenge to risk owners on risk assessments, controls, mitigation plans, target positions and action timescales.
• Prepare high-quality risk and assurance reports, dashboards and management information for senior management, governance committees and Boards.
• Monitor the risk appetite framework, escalating actual or potential breaches and supporting appropriate remedial action.
• Coordinate assurance activity, map assurance sources, identify gaps and maintain a proportionate assurance plan.
• Track actions arising from risk reviews, audits, assurance activity, incidents, breaches and governance reviews through to resolution.
• Provide risk advice and challenge to projects, programmes and significant business change.
• Lead horizon-scanning and emerging-risk assessments across regulatory, legislative, technological, economic and sector developments.
• Support operational resilience and business continuity arrangements and develop risk awareness and training activity.
• Maintain risk policies, standards, procedures and guidance, and build effective relationships with senior leaders, auditors, clients and specialist advisers.

Conoscenze

Enterprise risk management

Internal controls

Assurance

Audit

Governance

Three lines model

Operational resilience

Business continuity

Third-party risk

Stakeholder management

Formazione

Risk management qualification

Internal audit qualification

Strumenti

Data visualisation

Dashboards

Descrizione del lavoro

LPPA is seeking a Risk & Assurance Officer to drive enterprise risk management and assurance across the organization. You’ll maintain risk registers, coordinate internal assurance, and provide clear, decision-useful reporting to senior leaders and governance forums.

The role is hybrid, with two days in Preston, Lancashire, and a circa £40,000 salary plus benefits. You will work with risk, governance and business stakeholders to identify, assess and report on strategic, operational and regulatory