Senior Change Risk Manager - Operational Risk

Allied Irish Bank; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the financial sector seeks a seasoned Change Risk professional to enhance their risk management framework. This role involves oversight during significant change initiatives, ensuring risks align with AIB's appetite and supports their operational policies. Collaborate with senior leaders and provide critical insights on risk management practices. The ideal candidate will bring over 8 years of financial services experience and a strong command of change methodologies.

Benefits

Variable Pay

Employee Assistance Programme

Family leave options

Qualifications

• 8+ years’ experience in financial services in Assurance, Audit or Risk management.
• Experience at a senior change risk level in a financial service organization.
• Effective relationship management and ability to convey complex Risk matters.

Responsibilities

• Ensure robust Change Risk oversight during prioritization and delivery of initiatives.
• Provide impartial feedback aligned with Group Change Risk policy.
• Guide the management of Change Risk throughout the Change life cycle.

Skills

Risk Management

Change Management

Stakeholder Management

Agile Methodologies

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Allied Irish Bank

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Posted:

19.06.2025

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03.08.2025

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Job Description:

Location/Office Policy: Molesworth Street, Dublin 2 / Hybrid

What is the Role:

The Risk function’s main objective is to ensure AIB has a robust risk management framework and culture in place to ensure risks are taken within the risk appetite set by the Board, in support of AIB’s customer franchise and social responsibility.

This Change Risk role is within Group Operational Risk where we perform Risk management for Operational Risk through the Operational Risk Framework and supporting policies, monitoring and reporting. The Change Risk team’s purpose is to provide oversight and guidance for Material Change Initiatives and support their successful and controlled delivery. This activity is delivered through a risk based approach and in line with our change risk oversight methodology and policy.

The purpose of this role is to support the work of the Head of Strategic Risk Portfolio to influence senior leaders and stakeholders to identify, measure and monitor existing and emerging Change risks. Key to this is ensuring Change Risk priorities are delivered in accordance with the Risk Appetite. The role reports to the Head of Strategic Risk Portfolio on the Change Risk Team in Operational Risk.

Key Accountabilities;

• Providing independent Change Risk oversight during prioritisation and delivery of the selected programmes and initiatives that constitute Material Change or Change Platforms in the Group;
• Acting as a Senior stakeholder that provides impartial feedback in relation to risks associated with the change implementation, in alignment to the Group Change Risk policy and the Group Change Management Framework.
• Guidance and support with the management of Change Risk, throughout the Change life cycle, as applicable for both Waterfall and Agile change methodologies.
• Exercising sound judgement on key Change Risk matters, and engaging Risk SMEs from other areas across Group Risk, for other Risk matters affected as a result of the Change implementation.
• Relevant reporting and/or escalations (where required) on Change Risk and/or Change Risk Policy compliance to appropriate governance bodies, including the Group Change Committee, and Operational Risk Committee.
• Authoring or co-authoring relevant Second line Risk opinion papers that outline Risk opinion on the above and other matters.
• Steering representation either directly, or through other colleagues on the Change Risk team, as appropriate.

In addition, you will be involved in the continuous improvement of the Change Risk function and will be given an opportunity to influence our processes and policy. As the Second Line Oversight role, we welcome the challenge and thinking outside the box!

What you Will Bring.

• 8+ years’ experience in financial services in an Assurance, Audit or Risk management role
• Experience operating at a senior change risk level in a financial service organisation.
• An independent thinker with effective relationship management, that can effectively verbalise and succinctly convey in writing complex Risk matters.
• Track record in directing change implementation using Agile change methodology, or previous change experiencewithin an Agile change implementation.
• Ability to manage cross functional teams to deliver integrated risk challenge on Strategic Group-wide projects.

Why Work for AIB :

We are committed to offering our colleagues choice and flexibility in how we work and live and our hybrid working model enables our people to balance their time between working from home and their designated office, subject to their role, the needs of our customers and business requirements.

Some of our benefits include;

• Variable Pay
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Family leave options

Please click here for further information about AIB’s PACT – Our Commitment to You.

Key Capabilities

• Ensures Accountability
• Eliminates Complexity

Technical Capabilities

• Risk Mitigation - Identifies and quantifies risk factors to facilitate the development and implementation of approaches for managing risks
• Business Partnership and Consulting - Functions as a trusted advisor regarding relevant markets, business strategies and operating and/or risk and control environments to advise the business on solutions relating to own area of expertise.
• Change Management - Plans, implements and manages organisational changes and projects across AIB and guides stakeholders through changes to ensure that organisational goals and success criteria are met.

If you are not sure about your suitability based on any aspects of the role advertised, we encourage you to please contact the Recruiter for this role Conor Kearney , at [emailprotected] for a conversation.

AIB is an equal opportunities employer, and we pride ourselves on being the first bank in Ireland to receive the Investors in Diversity Gold Standard accreditation from the Irish Centre for Diversity. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees. Should you have a reasonable accommodation request please email the Talent Acquisition team at [emailprotected]

Disclaimer:

Unsolicited CV’s sent to AIB by Recruitment Agencies will not be accepted for this position. AIB operates a direct sourcing model and where agency assistance is required, the Talent Acquisition team will engage directly with our recruitment partners.