Risk Officer

Risk Officer London - Hybrid working available, 2 days office, 3 days home C80,000k pa Permanent | Full Time

Join our team

Play a key role in leading, developing and overseeing the risk management processes across ICAEW.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and implementation of the risk management strategy and framework at organisation and departmental level across the organisation.
• Work with the Leadership Team in developing and building a risk awareness culture and an understanding of the value of risk management in ICAEW across all levels and teams.
• Work collaboratively with the Leadership Team, ICAEW Senior Managers, Audit Committee, Internal Audit and Key Stakeholders across the organisation to ensure Principal, Corporate and Departmental risks are appropriately identified and managed.

Key Accountabilities:

• Lead an ongoing programme to drive a more strategic approach to risk, ensuring that risk management is fully integrated with ICAEW’s strategy and planning and that risk management approaches are fully embedded in operations.
• Ensure a proactive approach to identifying risks and their impact on the organisation, advise and support the Leadership Team and risk owners in discharging their risk management responsibilities, and ensure the organisation operates within an agreed risk appetite.
• Ensure all staff understand and fulfil their risk management responsibilities as a core element of their roles and have the appropriate skills and training to do so.
• Provide strategic insight to the Board and its Committees on the status of risks and controls across the organisation, and the efficacy of mitigating actions.
• Develop and evolve risk management reporting in line with best practice including Board and relevant Committee reports.
• Implement a risk horizon planning process at an agreed frequency to support proactive risk management and the Leadership Team in understanding emerging and future risk challenges.
• Collaborate effectively with the Internal Audit function, ensuring the effectiveness of the control and assurance framework is assessed through a programme of compliance and action reviews.
• Specific duties will vary from time to time in line with the business needs.

Requirements

• Demonstrable experience of a similar level role and preferably, a risk qualification.
• Experience in developing risk strategy at Board level and operating as a trusted advisor to Leadership and Senior Management teams.
• Ideally, will have operated in environments prone to change, where external factors demand an adaptive approach to risk management, and in a global context.
• Proven ability to translate business strategy into risk strategy and action plans, taking a proactive and hands on approach to driving risk awareness across an organisation.
• Excellent listening and influencing skills; able to gather, digest and analyse information from stakeholders to persuade colleagues that the analysis and any recommendations based on it are the way to proceed.
• Experience of interpreting and analysing data/information and distilling key insights to Senior Management.
• Demonstrate excellent networking and stakeholder communication and management skills

ICAEW values – for all employees

The 3 i’s are the values that drive everyone’s attitude and approach to working at ICAEW. They help us to collaborate, innovate and be an agile organisation.

Initiative

• Actively collaborate to identify needs and look for innovative solutions.
• Bring together different groups and communities to work together.
• Empower people to be agile, so they can take ownership and harness the collective efforts of ICAEW in a flexible and responsive way.

Insight

• Actively gather insights to develop innovative and considered thought.
• Collaborate with our networks to voice different perspectives and insights internally and externally, to stimulate discussion and debate.
• Be agile in finding new and timely ways to provide understanding and insight to our members, organisations and government.

Integrity

• Act with transparency, consistency and openness as integrity underpins everything we do.
• Stand by your principles to adhere to the highest professional standards even when facing adversity.
• Do the right thing, even when no one is looking.

Not the role for you?

We often have other roles we are recruiting for and we’re always interested to hear from people, particularly if you have experience in accountancy practice, the legal and regulatory sector, or digital skills. Please visit our job portal for the latest opportunities.

Why work at ICAEW?

At ICAEW we offer a comprehensive benefit package which enables our employees to choose from a range of options including:

• 24 days holiday, increasing with service and the ability to buy or sell holiday.
• Group personal pension plan with an employer contribution of 9%,
• Private medical insurance on a family cover basis
• An additional day off at Christmas
• Gym discounts
• Dental Plan
• Potential to work from home and our offices
• Season ticket travel loans

As well as offering employee benefits, we truly believe in creating a diverse and empowering culture where our teams can thrive and be themselves. We support sustainability, corporate and social responsibility campaigns and encourage our employees to take a day to work for a cause of their choice, or to work collaboratively as a team in doing this. We nominate and support two charities every year and run all manner of events to raise money. Our active social committees provide fun events ranging from the seasonal parties, to quiz nights and bowling tournaments.

Here are just a few of the initiatives we run to fly the flag for employee well-being, equality and diversity:

CABA

CABA supports the well-being of ICAEW Chartered Accountants, ACA students and ICAEW members of staff – helping them through challenging times and also offering guidance for personal development.

Whenever you contact CABA, you will be assigned a highly trained adviser who will devise a bespoke programme of practical, emotional and financial support to address and resolve your situation. Any information provided will be held in the strictest confidence. Please visit the CABA website for more information.

Together Community

Our LGBT+ network, the Together Community, aims to create an open, progressive and informed working environment to support ICAEW's employees and stakeholders. They provide regular meetings and activities, and act as a point of contact for LGBT+ employees and allies for related issues.

Embrace Community

Our Diversity and Inclusion network, embrace, creates a supportive working environment for all our colleagues while also encouraging employees to understand the needs of individuals across our organisation. It helps us to understand our individual differences, so we can support each other with respect. If you’re interested in our work around inclusion and these communities please visit our website or Instagram page