About the Role
The role sits within the Security, Integrity and Information Security (SIIS) Division, which is responsible for preserving integrity by combatting criminality and corruption risks that can threaten horse racing, betting, and membership at the Club. The job holder develops and maintains the Club's Enterprise Risk Management Framework (ERMF) and supports its divisional rollout with senior leadership. The role involves enterprise risk governance, reporting, monitoring, and team development, working across functions and supporting the Three Lines of Defence Operating Model. It also contributes to maintaining a secure environment and fair bet-placements through governance and risk management.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain the Club's Enterprise Risk Management Framework (ERMF), driving ongoing development of ERM principles to meet industry and academic leading practices.
- Support and communicate the Three Lines of Defence Operating Model across the business, and understand corporate and subsidiary governance structures to facilitate an appropriate Enterprise Risk Governance model.
- Support and facilitate enterprise risk reporting and monitoring, including Audit Committee and Board of Management reporting.
- Support the EM, ERM to drive divisional rollout and continued implementation of the ERM Framework with Senior Divisional leadership.
- Facilitate objective setting and event identification, ensuring Divisions have clearly defined objectives and KPIs aligned to the Club's Purpose and identifying potential risks that might threaten performance against objectives using internal and external data.
- Evaluate enterprise risks and set tolerance levels using data-driven approaches, root cause analysis, and internal control testing to inform prioritisation of resources for management actions.
- Engage stakeholders and ensure additional management responses are identified and resourced to mitigate the enterprise risk profile.
- Monitor and report on each enterprise risk to ensure leadership receive early warning of substantive risk changes
- Including proactive monitoring through Key Risk Indicators and external news and alerting Divisional Governance and leadership teams when risks are identified or may move outside tolerance.
- Lead periodic risk assessments, identify strategic opportunities to improve the Club's risk profile, support a more quantitative, data-driven approach by applying quantitative methods through capture of new data sources
- And initiate and lead collaboration and sharing of information with other functions.
- Ensure ongoing development of technical, academic, professional knowledge, business skills, and behavioural competencies across the team, improve communication and presentation skills to senior audiences including report writing
- And coach and mentor ERM team members to develop a qualified and high-performing team that is highly organised to support high productivity and focus on most valuable deliverables.
Required Experience & Qualifications
- Bachelor's and/or postgraduate degree from a highly accredited university in engineering, mathematics, business, accounting, or a similar discipline.
- Minimum 15 years of ERM experience in sizeable corporations.
- Understanding of industry best practices and trends on governance, risk and internal control.
- Experience of delivering Enterprise Risk Management frameworks from inception.
- Extensive knowledge of multiple risk types such as strategic, operations, financial, people or compliance risks.
- Understanding of data analytics and data visualisation techniques.
- Ability to effectively lead and manage complex risk management projects.
- Ability to write concise risk reports with clarity and precision that provide persuasive recommendations evidenced with data and analysis.
- Fluency in written and spoken English.
Salary
Benefits & Perks
- Benefits package
- Dynamic working environment
- Development opportunities