Senior Director — Non-Financial Risk & Control

AIB; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Variable Pay

Employee Assistance Programme

Family leave options

Job summary

AIB in Dublin is seeking a senior leader to head non-financial risk and control within Enterprise Delivery. The role sets direction for first line of defence across multiple domains, providing strategic oversight, challenge and governance to ensure a robust control environment and risk-informed decision making.

You will work with risk, compliance and internal audit stakeholders, build a high-performing team, and strengthen accountability and risk ownership while supporting regulatory

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading non-financial risk, controls, operational risk or governance functions within a complex regulated environment.
• Strong understanding of risk management frameworks, control environments and regulatory expectations.
• Demonstrated ability to influence and challenge at Executive and Board level.
• Experience across technology, operations, transformation and resilience environments.
• Exceptional stakeholder management, communication and leadership skills.
• Experience within financial services or another highly regulated sector.
• Knowledge of Operational Resilience, DORA, Technology Risk, Data Risk and Financial Crime frameworks.
• Experience with risk management and governance platforms (e.g. Archer, MetricStream).

Responsibilities

• Shape the non-financial risk and control agenda for Enterprise Delivery, embedding the Risk Management Framework across COO and CTO portfolios.
• Provide risk leadership, oversight and challenge to senior stakeholders on material risks, control effectiveness, emerging threats and risk appetite.
• Own and strengthen the Enterprise Delivery control environment, including RCSAs, issue management, remediation and management assurance.
• Maintain a consolidated view of the risk profile, ensuring material risks, control weaknesses, audit findings and regulatory actions are managed.
• Oversee non-financial risk areas including operational, technology and cyber, data, financial crime, customer and conduct, third-party, resilience, regulatory and change risk.
• Lead risk governance, reporting and regulatory engagement with clear, evidence-based risk management.
• Build relationships across COO, CTO, Group Risk, Compliance and Internal Audit to strengthen risk ownership and accountability across Enterprise Delivery.
• Lead and develop a high-performing first line of defence risk and control team.

Skills

Risk leadership

Executive influence

Stakeholder management

Technology risk

Regulatory knowledge

Governance platforms

Professional qualifications

Education

Professional qualifications in Risk/Audit/Compliance

Tools

Archer

MetricStream

Job description

AIB in Dublin is seeking a senior leader to head non-financial risk and control within Enterprise Delivery. The role sets direction for first line of defence across multiple domains, providing strategic oversight, challenge and governance to ensure a robust control environment and risk-informed decision making.

You will work with risk, compliance and internal audit stakeholders, build a high-performing team, and strengthen accountability and risk ownership while supporting regulatory