Senior Enterprise Risk Specialist

Skipton Building Society; Skipton; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual discretionary bonus

25 days leave + BH + service

Pension contribution

Private medical insurance

Flexible working

Wellbeing app

Cycle-to-work

Job summary

Skipton Building Society is seeking a Senior Enterprise Risk Specialist to strengthen the Group's Risk Management Framework. You will produce risk reporting and MI for senior leadership and Board-level oversight, working across three lines of defence.

You will build relationships, challenge assumptions, identify emerging risks, and help embed risk practices across the business. The role supports governance and strategic risk appetite in a mutual, customer-focused environment, with blended

Qualifications

• Experience in Risk, Compliance, Audit or a similar function in a regulated financial services environment.
• Strong understanding of enterprise risk management frameworks, governance, risk appetite and regulatory requirements.
• Proven ability to produce high quality risk reporting and translate complex data into clear, actionable insights.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the confidence to provide effective challenge across all levels.
• Experience supporting the development, embedding and continuous improvement of risk frameworks, methodologies and best practices.
• Proficiency in using risk data, reporting tools and technology to enhance insight, efficiency and decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Produce and deliver insightful risk reporting, analysis and management information to support informed decision making at senior leadership, Executive and Board level.
• Support and enhance the Group Risk Management Framework, ensuring effective and consistent risk management practices across the business.
• Produce high quality risk reporting, management information and insights to support decision making and risk governance.
• Act as a trusted risk partner, building strong stakeholder relationships and providing expert guidance, challenge and support.
• Identify and assess emerging and thematic risks, using data and analysis to inform recommendations and drive positive outcomes.
• Leverage risk systems, data and technology to improve reporting, automation, efficiency and overall risk management capability.

Skills

Risk reporting

Stakeholder management

Governance

Regulatory knowledge

Data analysis

ERM frameworks

Job description

Job introduction

Play a key role in strengthening the Group’s Risk Management Framework by supporting its continuous improvement, embedding effective risk practices, and ensuring alignment to strategic objectives and risk appetite. Working across the three lines of defence, you’ll provide insightful risk reporting, oversight and challenge, helping to identify emerging risks, enhance governance, and drive a strong risk management culture across the Group.

Hours

Full time, permanent

Closing Date

Fri, 2 Oct 2026

Job introduction

Play a key role in strengthening the Group’s Risk Management Framework by supporting its continuous improvement, embedding effective risk practices, and ensuring alignment to strategic objectives and risk appetite. Working across the three lines of defence, you’ll provide insightful risk reporting, oversight and challenge, helping to identify emerging risks, enhance governance, and drive a strong risk management culture across the Group.

What You’ll Do

As a Senior Enterprise Risk Specialist you will produce and deliver insightful risk reporting, analysis and management information to support informed decision making at senior leadership, Executive and Board level.

Your Key Responsibilities Will Also Include

• Support and enhance the Group Risk Management Framework, ensuring effective and consistent risk management practices across the business.
• Produce high quality risk reporting, management information and insights to support decision making and risk governance.
• Act as a trusted risk partner, building strong stakeholder relationships and providing expert guidance, challenge and support.
• Identify and assess emerging and thematic risks, using data and analysis to inform recommendations and drive positive outcomes.
• Leverage risk systems, data and technology to improve reporting, automation, efficiency and overall risk management capability.

What You’ll Need

To be successful in this role, you will ideally have:

• Experience within Risk, Compliance, Audit or a similar function in a regulated financial services environment.
• Strong understanding of enterprise risk management frameworks, governance, risk appetite and regulatory requirements.
• Proven ability to produce high quality risk reporting and translate complex data into clear, actionable insights.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the confidence to provide effective challenge across all levels.
• Experience supporting the development, embedding and continuous improvement of risk frameworks, methodologies and best practices.
• Proficiency in using risk data, reporting tools and technology to enhance insight, efficiency and decision-making.

What’s In It For You

Your work matters.

And the way we reward you matters, too.

At Skipton, we offer pay and benefits that really do make life better, together with a genuine thank you for making a difference.

• Annual discretionary bonus scheme
• 25 days standard annual leave + bank holidays + rising 1 day per year of service to a max of 30 days
• Matching employer pension contribution (up to 10% per annum)
• Colleague Mortgages and access to Skipton products and services at discounted rates
• Flexible working to help balance your commitments
• Private medical insurance, health and wellbeing app, volunteering opportunities, cycle-to-work scheme, discounted gym memberships
• Lifestyle perks such as a Home and Tech voucher, which can be used at John Le wis, Currys, and IKEA

We’re here to make life better for our members.

About Skipton.

Our story began in 1853 in Skipton, North Yorkshire. Today, you’ll find us across England and Scotland, from Aberdeen to Plymouth.

We help over a million members put down roots, save for what matters, and feel good about their money. As a mutual, they own us, so everything we do is for them. You'll feel that same fairness and purpose in how all 2,500 of our colleagues work together, too

It all means that life at Skipton is more exciting than you imagine.

What it’s like to work here

Life at Skipton

We talk and we listen to each other. And we make decisions as a team. That way, you get all the support you need to do work that works for everyone.

For most of our roles there's the option of blended working, which means we mix working from home and meeting in person, with three days a week in our Skipton office.

We also value what everyone brings to Skipton. And we create a fair place where you can be yourself. Our colleague networks play a big role in this. They connect people with similar life experiences and make our workplace warm, friendly, inclusive and welcoming.

It’s not just our members who are important to us.

You are, too.

Lots of organisations talk about wellbeing, but they don’t always back it up. As a mutual, we put people first. And that includes the people who work here. So, when we say we care about your wellbeing, we mean it.

Wellbeing isn’t just one thing. It’s about feeling good, having energy, and being able to be yourself and perform at your best. That’s why we offer help for your mental and physical health across five key areas.

What’s more, it’s help that you can actually use too - not just read about.