Risk Partner - Banking/Financial Services

Qualifications: - Must be CA/CISA/DISA Business Partnering & Strategic Insight: - Partner with senior leaders on business strategy, risk and governance, providing constructive challenge. - Identify key, emerging and changing risks and translate them into clear business recommendations. - Escalate material risks, control gaps and compliance issues. Risk & Control Oversight: - Ensure effective implementation of risk and control frameworks, policies and standards. - Review and challenge risk assessments, controls, remediation and issue closure. - Identify gaps and opportunities to strengthen risk maturity. Governance & Reporting: - Prepare concise, insight-led reports for senior management, Risk and Board committees. - Analyse risk, control, incident and assurance data to highlight trends and key concerns. - Coordinate with Risk, Compliance, Legal, Audit and regulators on governance and assurance matters. Data & Continuous Improvement: - Improve risk data, MI and reporting through analytics, visualisation and automation. - Support risk tools, reporting standards and continuous improvement initiatives. - Promote strong risk and control culture through coaching and best-practice sharing. Key Skills & Technical Expertise: - Strong stakeholder management, influencing, judgement and constructive challenge. - Strong analytical, communication and problem-solving skills with commercial awareness. - Knowledge of enterprise/operational risk, controls, governance, regulation and risk data. Experience: - Significant experience in Risk, Compliance, Controls, Audit or similar roles within a regulated environment. - Experience advising senior stakeholders, assessing controls and managing remediation/assurance. - Exposure to transformation, risk modernisation and senior management/Board reporting.