Senior Third-Party Risk & Oversight Manager

MoneyPlus; Greater Manchester; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

MoneyPlus is seeking a Third Party Risk and Oversight Manager to provide a second-line view of external relationships and assess third party risk before live arrangements. You will challenge onboarding controls, conduct risk and regulatory permissions, and monitor ongoing effectiveness of controls once relationships are in place.

In this manager-level individual contributor role, you will deliver practical advice, evidence-based reviews and clear escalation where risks are identified, helping to

Qualifications

• Experience in operational risk, compliance monitoring, assurance, supplier or outsourcing governance, conduct risk or a comparable regulated role.
• Ability to assess controls and imperfect evidence, reach a proportionate conclusion and explain the risk clearly.
• Experience carrying out reviews, testing or assurance and following findings through to resolution.
• Confidence challenging senior stakeholders constructively while maintaining clear first line and second line accountability.
• Strong written judgement, including assessments, findings, action plans and management information.
• A practical approach to building effective processes in a developing control environment.

Responsibilities

• Build a clear view of material third parties, including the accountable owner, risk tier, evidence held and oversight required.
• Review and challenge due diligence, risk assessments and proposed controls during onboarding and material changes.
• Bring in specialist input on areas such as data protection, information security, resilience, conduct and regulatory permissions where needed.
• Plan and carry out risk based reviews, thematic work and targeted testing after relationships are live.
• Use management information, complaints, incidents, calls, files, lead sources, audit findings and customer outcomes to test whether arrangements work in practice.
• Track findings and actions, challenge ineffective remediation and elevate concerns where a relationship may need to be restricted, suspended or reconsidered.
• Provide clear reporting on decisions, exceptions, themes and emerging risks for senior stakeholders and governance forums.
• Give particular attention to introducers, marketing and lead generation partners, and ARs or IARs because of their potential impact on customers.

Skills

Operational risk

Compliance monitoring

Stakeholder management

Risk assessment

Audit & assurance

Job description

MoneyPlus is seeking a Third Party Risk and Oversight Manager to provide a second-line view of external relationships and assess third party risk before live arrangements. You will challenge onboarding controls, conduct risk and regulatory permissions, and monitor ongoing effectiveness of controls once relationships are in place.

In this manager-level individual contributor role, you will deliver practical advice, evidence-based reviews and clear escalation where risks are identified, helping to