Risk & Controls Manager - Digital Assets

Lloyds Bank plc; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 67,000 - 82,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension contribution up to 15%

Annual bonus

Share schemes

30 days' holiday

Job summary

Lloyds Banking Group is recruiting a Risk & Controls Manager for Digital Assets to shape risk frameworks within Business and Commercial Banking. You will partner across teams to embed control-by-design in new products and journeys and ensure compliant, safe delivery of initiatives.

The role focuses on identifying risks, designing controls, and using data to improve monitoring and governance for senior leaders.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial understanding of non-financial risk, control management and governance activities.
• Ability to analyse information, evaluate options and support decisions with data.
• Experience influencing senior leaders across functions in large organisations.

Responsibilities

• Lead risk and control activity across Digital Assets initiatives.
• Design end-to-end control frameworks for products, services and journeys.
• Identify risks and translate them into controls, monitoring and assurance.
• Embed control-by-design principles across change lifecycles with delivery teams.
• Use data and MI to identify trends and improve control effectiveness.
• Prepare governance materials and communicate complex risk matters clearly.

Skills

Risk & Control

Business insight

Decision Making

Data literacy

Managing relationships

Change & Transformation

Communication

Job description

**Risk & Controls Manager - Digital Assets****SALARY:** £67,023 - £81,917 pa**LOCATION(S):** Edinburgh, Birmingham, Bristol, Glasgow, Leeds and Manchester**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 your time, at one of our office sites.**About this opportunity**Are you interested in helping shape the future of Digital Assets within Business and Commercial Banking while ensuring strong risk management and control standards are embedded from the outset?We're looking for a Business Transaction Banking (BTB) **Risk & Controls Manager - Digital Assets** to join the Chief Controls Office (CCO). You'll play a key role in supporting the development and delivery of Digital Assets initiatives, helping to identify risks, design controls and ensure new products, services and customer journeys are implemented safely and sustainably.Working closely with business, product, technology, operations, legal, compliance and delivery teams, you'll create and maintain effective control frameworks that support innovation while protecting customers and the Group.As a BTB CCO Digital Assets Risk & Controls Manager, you'll:* Lead risk and control activity across Digital Assets initiatives, providing practical insight and constructively push-back when needed.* Design and develop end-to-end control frameworks for products, services, processes and customer journeys.* Identify operational, conduct, financial and regulatory risks and translate them into effective controls, monitoring and assurance activities.* Partner with programme, platform and delivery teams to embed control-by-design principles throughout the change lifecycle.* Use data, analytics and management information to identify trends, strengthen decision-making and improve control effectiveness.* Prepare high-quality governance materials and communicate complex risk and control matters clearly to senior leaders.**Why Lloyds Banking Group**We're on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we're shaping finance for good. We're focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone.**What you'll need*** **Risk & Control** & **Business insight** - Strong commercial understanding of non-financial risk, control management, operational risk or governance activities, including identifying, assessing and mitigating risks, and designing, implementing or enhancing control frameworks, risk assessments and monitoring activities in a large, and complex organisation.* **Decision Making** & **Data literacy** - Ability to analyse information, evaluate options and make sound recommendations to support effective decision making.* **Managing key relationships** - Strong leadership and business partner management skills, including influencing and constructively challenging senior leaders across multiple functions.* **Change & Transformation** - Experience working within change, transformation, product development or delivery environments and supporting safe implementation of new capabilities.* **Communication** - Ability to communicate complex information clearly through governance papers, presentations and drive colleague engagement.**And any experience of this would be really useful*** Understanding of Digital Assets, distributed ledger technology, tokenisation or related propositions.* Experience applying control-by-design principles within large-scale programmes or strategic change initiatives.* Experience using data and analytics to improve control monitoring, reporting and risk insights.We know that great talent comes from many backgrounds. Whilst this job advert may reference specific experience, we recognise that skills are developed in many ways, so if you have relevant, transferable experience, we encourage you to apply.**This is a place for you...**Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion, supporting our customers, colleagues and communities. We are 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 launch a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. As a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role and have 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.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**Ready to make an impact? Apply today!****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.**