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About the Role
The Senior Financial Risk Manager will play a senior role in Financial Risk Operations, leading high-quality risk reporting and governance activity across external and regulatory disclosures. The role requires an experienced financial risk professional to bring structure, judgement, and strong stakeholder management to complex, cross-functional reporting.
Responsibilities
- Lead key risk reporting outputs, including external and regulatory disclosures, regulatory compliance evidence, and relevant external risk surveys.
- Coordinate input from Finance, Risk SMEs, Legal, CoSec and wider business colleagues, ensuring clear ownership and consistency across risk reporting outputs.
- Draft and review Board, Committee, regulatory and external reporting material, translating complex risk, regulatory and financial information into clear, decision-ready content.
- Support the Head of Financial Risk Operations with governance planning, operational management, resource coordination, and wider team objectives.
- Oversee the governance process for risk committees, including forward planning, agenda coordination, paper tracking, action management and effective engagement with contributors and stakeholders.
- Maintain oversight of reporting-related risks and controls, including relevant RCSAs and controls that support robust, accurate and well-evidenced reporting.
- Provide constructive challenge to ensure risk reporting is balanced, aligned to the Group and regulatory requirements, Board expectations and market practice.
- Drive continuous improvement by simplifying processes, strengthening handovers, using technology and AI effectively, and embedding lessons learned across recurring cycles.
Requirements
- Experience in financial risk, enterprise risk, external reporting, regulatory reporting or a related area within life insurance or wider financial services.
- Experience producing clear, concise and audience-appropriate material for Boards, Committees, regulators, investors and senior stakeholders.
- Proven ability to coordinate complex reporting or governance processes, including planning, stakeholder engagement, review cycles, submissions and maintaining clear evidence trails.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work collaboratively across Finance, Company Secretariat, Risk subject matter experts and senior leaders to clarify ownership and align outputs.
- Sound judgement and the ability to provide constructive challenge, identify material issues, draw out key themes and translate complex information into practical insights.
- An understanding of controls, governance and operational risk management, including the importance of proportionate, well-evidenced reporting processes.
- Ability to work independently, manage competing priorities, lead by example and support continuous improvement within a large, complex organisation.
Skills
- Financial risk
- Enterprise risk
- External reporting
- Regulatory reporting
- Stakeholder management
- Written communication
- Process improvement
- Risk management
- Governance
Location
- London
- Birmingham
- Edinburgh
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Part-time
- Job-share
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- Relevant professional qualification (e.g., Fellow of the IFoA, CERA, FRM) or equivalent experience
Salary/Compensations
- £85,000 to £110,000
- Indicative bonus range of 30% to 60%
Benefits
- Private medical cover
- 38 days annual leave
- Excellent pension
- 12x salary life assurance
- Career breaks
- Income protection
- 3x volunteering days
About the Company
- Standard Life is a retirement specialist focused entirely on retirement savings and income.
- We champion the belief that everyone’s journey to and through retirement can be better.
- For more than 200 years, we’ve been helping our customers plan and prepare for their financial futures.
- We offer our colleagues flexibility, trust and benefits that work for whatever life brings.
- In return we expect curiosity, connection, accountability and high standards.
- We make room for what matters - so you can bring your best, every day.
Equal Opportunity
- We are committed to ensuring that everyone feels accepted and welcome applicants from all backgrounds.
- If your experience looks different from what we’ve advertised and you believe that you can bring value to the role, we’d love to hear from you.
- If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, please let us know so we can help you to be at your best.