Transformation Risk Consultant

TRIA Recruitment Limited; Milton Keynes; Hybrid; GBP 86,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary up to £95,000

Hybrid working: two days per week

Job summary

Senior Manager, Technology & Change Risk is a hybrid role based in London/Home Counties, offering up to £95k. The role leads second-line oversight of technology, data and change risk across a multi-year transformation for a regulated financial services organisation.

You’ll challenge first-line teams, brief ExCo with clear risk insight, design scenario analysis and shape a pragmatic risk approach. You’ll lead a small risk team and collaborate with executive stakeholders to drive decisive actions.

Qualifications

• Experience of technology, change or operational risk in a regulated financial services environment.
• Ability to move quickly from strategic framing to detailed analysis.
• Confidence presenting to senior executives.
• Understanding of cloud, data and programme delivery risk.
• Strong written communication.
• Pragmatic mindset and energy to drive actions.

Responsibilities

• Lead second-line oversight of technology, data and change risk across a multi-year transformation programme.
• Challenge first-line teams on programme, cloud and data risk with commercial judgement.
• Brief executive stakeholders, including senior technology and data leadership, with clear risk insight.
• Design and run scenario analysis that starts from business strategy.
• Shape a proportionate technology and operational risk approach that fits the organisation’s maturity.
• Lead and develop a small risk team.
• Bring momentum: pull stakeholders together, unblock issues and drive actions to completion.

Skills

Technology risk

Change risk

Operational risk

Executive communication

Data risk

Cloud risk

Job description

Senior Manager, Technology & Change Risk | Hybrid (London/Home Counties) | Up to £95k

Most second-line risk roles ask you to police a framework. This one asks you to think. A regulated financial services organisation is partway through a major transformation, and its newly refreshed risk leadership team needs someone who can look at a cloud migration, a data programme or a stalled change initiative and say clearly what matters, why, and what to do about it.

You’ll challenge the first line constructively, hold your own with ExCo, and stay pragmatic about where the business actually is.

The Role

• Lead second-line oversight of technology, data and change risk across a multi-year transformation programme
• Challenge first-line teams on programme, cloud and data risk, with commercial judgement rather than checklists
• Brief executive stakeholders, including senior technology and data leadership, with clear, decision-ready risk insight
• Design and run scenario analysis that starts from business strategy, not methodology
• Shape a proportionate technology and operational risk approach that fits the organisation’s maturity
• Lead and develop a small risk team
• Bring momentum: pull stakeholders together, unblock issues and drive actions to completion

What We're Looking For

• Experience of technology, change or operational risk in a regulated financial services environment, either in-house or in consulting
• Ability to move quickly from strategic framing to detailed analysis and back again
• Confidence presenting to and challenging senior executives
• Working understanding of cloud, data and programme delivery risk (you don't need to be a technologist)
• Strong written communication: you can write a paper an executive will actually read
• A pragmatic mindset and the energy to make things happen

Nice to have

• Consulting background (manager level or similar) in risk, regulatory or technology advisory
• Programme or project leadership on regulated transformation or remediation work
• Exposure to enterprise risk management, operational resilience or PRA expectations

Backgrounds in risk consulting, regulatory programme delivery and ERM are all welcome. Breadth and judgement matter more than years spent in one discipline.

What's On Offer

• Salary up to £95,000 plus [benefits to confirm: pension, bonus, healthcare]
• Hybrid working: two days per week
• Genuine ExCo visibility at senior manager level
• The chance to shape a function under new risk leadership, rather than inherit one
• A short two-stage process with quick feedback