Business Controls Lead | S4 | SCIB | 9-month FTC

Business Controls Lead | S4 | SCIB | 9-month FTC

Country: United Kingdom

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Santander Corporate & Investment Banking (SCIB) is Santander's global division that supports some of the world's most complex and sophisticated corporate and institutional clients, offering customized services and value-added wholesale products to best meet their needs.

In this challenging, interim role, you’ll be working with a team of risk professionals in the 1st Line of defence (1st LoD) executing and co-ordinating the Banking, Trading Controls and Conduct Risk Framework as well as the broader Business Controls support model for the branch.

You’ll support the whole of the UK SCIB business and will collaboratively with HQ and teams globally. You’ll cover Non-Financial Risk Management and regulatory compliance within an Investment Banking business and across Markets and Banking Products.

If you’ve performed a similar role previously, this could be the perfect opportunity to develop your career at the heart of the action.

The difference you’ll make:

• Developing independent 1st LoD assurance and quality capability and implementing a continuous improvement agenda

• Reinforcing 1st LoD risk management accountability and capability to evolve and improve risk mitigation activity

• Understanding a pan-geographical narrative to manage and enhance market trading control activity from a conduct, operational and risk event management perspective

• Overseeing, reviewing and executing ad hoc analytical requests, control deep dives and lessons learned

• Building and maintaining matrixed relationships with global stakeholders and acting as a trusted partner to senior stakeholders and engaging with 2nd and 3rd LoD teams

• Mentoring, developing and helping manage a set of independent but aligned risk capabilities within a central team

What you’ll bring:

These are the essential requirements you need to be successful in this role:

• Demonstrable experience in developing and implementing effective control frameworks across a range business lines and risk typologies in an Investment Banking environment

• Proven track record of designing, implementing and enhancing Trading Control frameworks

• Significant Operational or Non-Financial Risk experience gleaned from an Investment Banking environment

• Highly developed communication skills with the ability to tailor to different levels of the organisation and circumstance

It would also be nice for you to have:

• Excellent understanding of business risks across Banking and Markets products

• Experience of managing and delivering large scale programs across complex, matrix managed organisations

• Experience of simplification, automation or digitisation of tooling, processes and practices

• Experience working in Front Line teams will be beneficial

What else you need to know:

This 9-month fixed-term contract is based at our offices in Triton Square, London located within easy walking distance from Warren Street and Euston.

We want our people to thrive at work and home, and also be able to deliver the best outcomes for our customers and to help each other develop. To support this, we offer site-based contracts with a hybrid working pattern and our expected level of attendance in an office is at least 3 days a week (pro-rata for part-time roles).

If you apply for this role in this location, it’s important you consider your travelling distance, time and cost from your home to the office location. We’re happy to discuss specific working patterns and arrangement within this hybrid approach during the recruitment process.

If you’re interested in this role but with part time hours or a job-share we would still love to hear from you and discuss these.

Inclusion

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How we’ll reward you.

As well as a competitive salary, you’ll enjoy a benefits package that you can tailor to your needs. For contract roles, your salary, bonus (where eligible) and certain benefits will be prorated to reflect your contract duration.

• We put 8% of salary into your pension, even if you don’t contribute yourself. We’ll pay in up to 12.5% of salary, if you contribute as well, and you can take some of our contribution in cash if you prefer.

• 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, which increases to 31 days after 5yrs service, with the option to purchase up to 5 contractual days per year.

• Company funded individual private medical insurance.

• Voluntary healthcare benefits at discounted rates such as private medical insurance for your family, dental insurance, and health assessments.

• Protection for you and your family, with company-funded death-in-service benefit and income protection insurance, and the option to take advantage of discounted rates for additional life assurance and critical illness cover.

• Share in Santander’s success by saving or investing in our share plans.

• As a Santander UK employee, you are able to request staff versions of our products like our Edge Current Accounts and Credit Cards with no fees, as well as apply to many other deals and discounts in Santander products and services.

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What to do next:-

If this sounds like a role you’re interested in, then please apply.

If there’s anything we can do in the recruitment process to help you achieve your best, get in touch. Whether it’s a copy of our application form in another format or additional assistance, we’re available through telephone, email, or face to face. You can contact us at [email protected] or call 0870 414 9080.