IT Risk and Controls Analyst

Shawbrook is a new type of specialist financial services company, combining the relentless focus on customer service and innovation you would expect from a fintech with the expertise and certainty of a bank. Shawbrook is driven by a purpose to solve complex problems that unlock opportunity for its rapidly growing customer base of over 300,000 UK consumers and businesses.

Our success would not have been possible without our Team. Our people differentiate us from the competition through their deep sector knowledge, they are the life force of our business.

Join Shawbrook because you:

• Want to help us deepen our industry sector knowledge, combining technology alongside the best banking brains.
• Want to build a bank for the future and be part of our digital transformation journey that will enable customers & businesses to thrive
• Want to continue to grow professionally. We encourage you to grow and be the best version of yourself.
• Care about sustainability? We want to be better for our people, environment and society.
• Bring passion and enjoyment to your work. You’ll work hard but you’ll have fun too.

To provide dedicated capacity to focus on enhancing and managing the IT Risks within the CTO function and the controls that underpin them.

The role will perform activities, such as:

Support the first line Risk and Control function within Technology to provide oversight, support and challenge on all aspects of risk management across the department

Support the IT Technology Monthly Risk Meeting, including agenda management and action tracking 

Drive standards to enhance control effectiveness, control operation & control evidence with control owners

Manage the Risk and Controls with the Bank’s GRC tool (MetricStream).for the CTO function

Perform the twice annual RCSA process to assess the control effectiveness and operation of IT controls

Manage all CTO Risk events and issues within the Banks Group Risk Management Framework

Familiarity with key risk activities including policy reviews, risk self-assessments and risk event management.

Experience of representing Technology risk at key governance committees with senior stakeholders

Experience of representing risk considerations in project deliveries to ensure identification and implementation of controls.

The IT Risk and Controls Analyst should have knowledge of Technology controls across the IT estate, specifically; Core IT, Information Security, change Delivery Cloud and Data and experience of operating in a first line risk capacity supporting all aspects of risk management.

The right candidate should be able to work with stakeholders on risk impact. Propose realistic and pragmatic mitigation which addresses these problems, and work with the product/project teams to implement these effectively into their work.

Reward:

Your Wellbeing - We take your health and well-being very seriously by providing a range of benefits to give you and your family peace of mind. These include:

• Market leading family friendly policies such as access to our Maternity, Adoption and Paternity policies from Day 1 of your employment
• Free access to Headspace, a mindfulness & meditation digital health app
• Free access to Peppy digital health app that offers personalised support through fertility treatment becoming a parent or menopause
• EAP (Employee Assistance Programme) - Offering you support on a wide range of subjects including financial concerns, mental wellbeing and more general queries around family, work, housing and health
• Cycle to work scheme
• Discounts on gym membership
• Contributory pension scheme & death in service

Your Lifestyle - It’s important you strike the right balance between your work and personal life. We provide benefits to support you when at work and when you’re enjoying your leisure time.

• Minimum of 25 days holiday per year
• Option to buy or sell holiday days through our flexi-holiday scheme
• Discounts on gym membership nationwide
• Access to discounts on a range of high street and online brands
• Community support and charitable giving

Your Contribution - We’re focused on rewarding those that go the extra mile in helping us achieve our goals.

• Participation in our annual discretionary bonus scheme designed to reward your contribution to our success
• Proudly Shawbrook recognition scheme focused on recognising our role models and thanking our colleagues for a job well done