Job Description
About the Role
As the Technology Risk Specialist, you will be responsible for embedding a strong risk culture across technology, playing a critical role in creating standardisation across technology, identifying gaps in the current Enterprise Risk Management Framework and ensuring plans are in place to resolve any issues. You are responsible for identifying, assessing and mitigating technology risks within the day-to-day operations and ensuring that risks are controlled, monitored and reported.
Providing operational governance over the 1st Line of Defence control environment, you will proactively ensure you are informed and understand the impact of evolving technology threats, regulatory changes and industry trends to enable us to adapt any risk management strategies that protect the organisation from technological vulnerabilities and operational disruptions.
You are expected to support the assessment and reduction of residual risk to within risk appetite whilst driving timely and sustainable closure of audit and assurance actions. Facilitating risk workshops with Technology and Data service and control owners to identify and document inherent risks associated with Technology and Data processes, platforms, and change initiatives.
About You
You are expected to have extensive experience in Technology and Data Risk, Audit, or a Compliance role, preferably within Financial Services or regulated industries. From this you will have a strong understanding of inherent and residual risk concepts, and control design principles and familiarity with 1st line risk management practices, ideally within a technology function.
Possessing practical experience managing audit findings, remediation plans, and stakeholder coordination with excellent stakeholder engagement, influencing, and communication skills.
You will have strong documentation and reporting skills, including preparing materials for risk and audit committees whilst experience delivering in 1st Line of Defence or integrated control functions. Being proficient in risk tools (e.g., ServiceNow GRC, Archer, MetricStream) is seen as a plus in addition to being familiar with risk frameworks and standards (e.g., ISO 27005, NIST, COBIT, FAIR).
About Us
The Newcastle Building Society Group comprises of Newcastle Building Society, Manchester Building Society, Newcastle Financial Advisers and Newcastle Strategic Solutions. Our purpose, connecting our communities with a better financial future inspires and directs our activities.
The Group provides traditional financial services, helping people own their own home, plan and manage their finances and operate a 32-branch network across the North-East, North-West, Cumbria and Yorkshire. Our Strategic Solutions subsidiary owns the UK’s leading savings management platform and provides managed technology services to new challenger banks and other established providers.
As an inclusive employer and member owned mutual, we aim to reflect the diverse communities we serve and encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds. We believe everyone should feel valued, respected, and celebrated for who they are, we want colleagues to feel this is a place they belong. A place to be you.
What do you get in return? As well as receiving a competitive annual salary based on above-market pay scales, our reward package includes:
Financial
* Corporate bonus scheme (on target 10%, up to a maximum 15%)
* Pension scheme (up to 9% employer contribution)
* Annual performance related pay reviews
* Colleague mortgage scheme
* Electric car salary sacrifice scheme
* Life assurance (4x salary) and income protection
* Access to our financial advisers
* Access to a range of high street and online discounts
Work/Life Balance
* A 35-hour weekly contract - We are happy to talk flexible working and welcome discussions
* 30 days’ annual leave + bank holidays
* The option to buy and sell up to 5 days’ holiday
* Hybrid working
* Above statutory family leave entitlement - 3 months full pay, 3 months half pay, regardless of gender or route to parenthood
Health and Wellbeing
* Private medical insurance
* Access to a health cash plan through a Medicash scheme
* Access to an employee assistance programme
* Free onsite gym at our Cobalt head office and access to discounted gym’s
* Two paid volunteering days’ each year
* Cycle to work scheme
Recognising there’s no one-size-fits-all approach to recruitment, we’re committed to ensuring every candidate has the opportunity to showcase their full potential throughout the recruitment process. We strive to make our processes as accessible as possible, if there are any ways in which we can provide support or make adjustments, we would love to discuss this with you, you can contact your Recruiter for this vacancy at dave.cowell@newcastle.co.uk