Third Party Governance Manager

Just Group plc; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Salary

Pension Scheme

Private Medical Cover

Generous bonus scheme

25 Days Annual Leave plus Birthday leave

Employee Assistance Helpline

Headspace App access

Job summary

A leading financial services provider in London is seeking a Third Party Governance Manager to oversee the Third Party Risk Management programme, ensuring compliance with policies and regulations. Responsibilities include maintaining governance frameworks, assessing third-party risks, and reporting on risk exposure. The ideal candidate will have strong regulatory knowledge and experience in a similar role. A competitive salary and extensive benefits are offered.

Qualifications

• Essential financial services regulatory knowledge.
• Experience in a dedicated SRM or TPRM role.
• Ability to manage varied workloads independently.

Responsibilities

• Oversee Third Party Risk Management programme.
• Maintain governance frameworks and monitor compliance.
• Prepare group-wide third-party risk reports.

Skills

Financial services regulatory background

Experience in SRM or TPRM role

Ability to collaborate with stakeholders

Organizational and planning skills

Strong negotiation skills

Effective communication

Problem analysis abilities

Job description

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About the role

The Third-Party Governance Manager oversees Just's Third Party Risk Management (TPRM) programme, ensuring compliance with Group Procurement & Outsourcing Policy (GPOP) and regulatory standards.

This role works with business stakeholders to onboard, monitor, and manage third parties to reduce risk, and collaborates with Relationship Managers to regularly review third party performance and address risks.

Responsibilities

• Governance frameworks and documentation: Maintain Just’s key TRPM policies and frameworks to ensure risks are well identified, managed, controlled and monitored. Update frameworks to reflect changes in regulations and taking into consideration Consumer Duty and ESG requirements. Maintain the Group Procurement and Outsourcing manual (GPOM) and seek to continuously improve the manual’s usability and clarity.
• Maintain repository of information on Third Parties: Manage Just’s contracts management and TPRM system, Gatekeeper, implementing enhancements to improve risk coverage and user adoption. Ensure quality of input and structure of data captured is useful for Third Party risk analysis and oversight.
• Support Relationship Managers (RM): RMs reside in the business and are responsible for the relationships they manage. The TPRM and Governance Manager supports the RMs in understanding their duties and setting expectations of deliverables. This includes ensuring that RMs meet scheduled governance activities such as monthly, quarterly, and annual reviews, completion of due diligence questionnaires, compliance attestations, materiality assessments, and updates to the Register of Third Parties.
• Risk assessment and performance management of Third Parties: Maintain risk assessment framework in order to establish criteria to identify High, Medium and Low Risk third parties. Support due diligence processes for both existing and proposed third parties. Ensure new third parties are assessed as part of the onboarding process. Facilitate annual risk reviews and ensure identified third-party risks have ownership, acceptance, or mitigation actions established. Support the business in overseeing third party performance reviews and documenting review frequency.
• Reporting and analysis: Prepare regular group-wide third-party risk reports enabling the business to understand their third party risk exposure. Analyse exposure and monitor for changes in this exposure and where risk management approaches need to evolve accordingly.

Skills & Experience

• Financial services regulatory background and knowledge (possibly also pharmaceutical) is essential
• Experience in a dedicated SRM or TPRM role
• Ability to perform tasks effectively within a decentralised TPRM environment
• Ability to collaborate with multiple stakeholders across a broad third-party base
• Skilled in planning, organisation, and managing varied workloads
• Self-driven, works well with minimal supervision
• Effective team player, manages time and stakeholder expectations efficiently
• Highly organised with strong attention to detail
• Strong negotiation and influencing skills
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication
• Strong problem analysis and resolution abilities

Company Benefits

• A Competitive Salary, Pension Scheme and Life Assurance
• Along with 25 Days Annual Leave plus an Additional Day on us for your Birthday
• Private Medical Cover and Income Protection, just in case
• A generous and highly achievable bonus scheme – paid annually based on individual and company performance against targets
• Opportunity to progress within your career both in-role and within the company
• FREE access to the Headspace App, a 24/7 Employee Assistance Helpline and Trained Physical & Mental Health First Aiders (On-Site)
• A variety of Employee Funded Benefits available to you via our Online Benefits Portal
• Plus, several additional purchase options available for you and your loved ones

Why Just?

At Just you’ll have the opportunity to develop your career, whilst making a difference to the lives of those around you. You’ll be part of a company with a strong and distinctive culture - we’re ambitious, curious and collaborative – and every decision we make centres around being Just and delivering the best outcomes for our customers.

We’re committed to building a more sustainable business, and we’re working hard to make progress against our Net Zero targets. We're reducing our reliance on fossil fuels in our offices, switching to more sustainable sources of energy and we're investing more of our money in green and social assets.

Valuing diversity of thought and fostering a sense of belonging is critical to our business success, driving innovation and balanced decision making. Our work on DEIB (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging) aims to deliver a brilliant employee experience underpinned by a sense of belonging, where our people feel proud to work at Just. We remain committed to our publicly disclosed HM Treasury Women in Finance Charter and Race at Work Charter targets and support a wide range of employee network and events, championing issues including intergenerational working, social mobility and neurodiversity.

Be Bold. Be Brilliant. Be Just.

At Just we encourage a flexible and agile working environment for the majority of our opportunities. Get in touch with us to discuss in more detail.

Seniority level

• Associate

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Other

Industries

• Financial Services, Insurance, and Pension Funds