Risk Manager

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What We'll Bring:

We Are TransUnion:
TransUnion is a major credit reference agency, and we offer specialist services in fraud, identity and risk management, automated decisioning and demographics. We support organisations across a variety of sectors including finance, retail, telecommunications, utilities, gaming, government and insurance.

What You'll Bring:

We’re looking for a Risk Manager to join our growing team. 

The Risk Manager will engage with stakeholders across the business to drive development and improvement of risk management capabilities and to ensure that business activities are subject to appropriate levels of control and monitoring. They will support the maintenance and development of the TU UK risk management framework, ensuring continued alignment with TU Global requirements.

Day to Day You’ll Be:

• Acting as a Risk Management subject matter expert providing advice and guidance in relation to risk management to business stakeholders across the global organization to enable them to effectively articulate, assess and manage risk exposures.
• Supporting significant wider business change initiatives from a risk management perspective.
• Working with stakeholders to ensure risks are being appropriately flagged and recorded/reported as needed, enabling corrective action to be taken as necessary.
• Supporting risk owners in maintaining fit for purpose risk metrics / measures.
• Providing risk SME feedback to policy owners in relation to policy reviews and updates.
• Acting as a key point of contact for risk matters, providing independent challenge where needed and being able to explain complex issues in a clear and concise manner. 
• Undertaking risk management focused reviews or projects when required to assist in understanding potential risks and issues and ensure effective governance and control is in place relevant to functional areas or business activities
• Preparing and maintaining accurate and complete documentation that records the completion of risk-focused reviews.
• Preparing high-quality papers, reports, and MI dashboard outputs for risk governance committees and forums.
• Supporting UK regulatory interactions and assisting in the preparation of high-quality documents to share with regulators.
• Supporting ongoing maintenance and development of the Risk Management Framework in the TU UK business, ensuring continued alignment with TU Global requirements.
• Working in collaboration with Internal Audit, Compliance, Legal, Data Governance and the wider Risk team to ensure the business is provided assurance over TU UK’s material risk exposures via appropriate oversight activities.
• Identifying opportunities to innovate and develop control monitoring and oversight methods / systems.

Essential Skills & Experience:

• Strong knowledge of risk management principles and techniques, gained from significant experience and a demonstrable track record of operating within a risk management function (or similar) of a FCA regulated firm.
• Aptitude for learning, problem-solving and quickly understanding new and complex information.
• Initiative to propose solutions and to act independently with the confidence to effectively challenge the status quo. 
• Methodical, thorough and diligent, with strong attention to detail and strong documentation and report writing and presentation skills.
• Experience of preparing high quality papers for governance committees
• Effective organizational and time management skills to be able to manage completion of multiple activities tasks within set deadlines.
• Strong interpersonal and communications skills with internal and external stakeholders at all levels, both orally and in writing.
• Ability to use standard Microsoft products to a high standard, including Outlook, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.

Desirable Skills & Experience:

• A good working knowledge of the UK financial services sector and FCA regulation.
• Knowledge of data management environments to be able to make critical observations and drive continual improvement.
• Good understanding of data protection regulation regimes, such as UK General Data Protection Regulation and the Data Protection Act 2018.
• Understanding of Credit Reference Agency data (desirable) 

Impact You'll Make:

What’s In It For you?
At TransUnion you will be joining a friendly, forward thinking global business.
As well as an excellent salary and bonus scheme or commission scheme (if joining our sales teams) our benefits package comes with:

• 26 days’ annual leave + bank holidays (increasing with service)
• Global paid wellness days off + a bonus day off to celebrate your birthday
• A generous contributory pension scheme + access to the TransUnion Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Private health care + a variety of physical, mental and financial fitness wellbeing programmes such as access to mindfulness tools
• Access to our diversity forums and communities so you can get involved in causes close to your heart

TransUnion – a place to grow: 
If there’s something on the list of essential / desirable skills that you can’t quite tick off, don’t let that put you off applying. We are open to exploring training and development opportunities for the right candidate to ensure you are successful.
We know imposter syndrome is real, lets confront it so we can continue to grow and thrive together

Flexibility at TU:
We recognise that our people need the freedom to balance their day-to-day lives with their work. This is why we’ve set out to create inclusive and flexible policies and practices for you to accommodate all your responsibilities and needs: children, family and beyond. If the role is advertised as full time, don’t let this stop you from applying. Let us know if you’re looking for a part time or flexible working arrangement and we can discuss this with you.

Additional support:
At TransUnion, we’re committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace where all individual’s talents and perspectives are valued. When you apply for a position with us, you’re not just joining a team, you’re becoming part of a community that celebrates differences and embraces equality. We understand that everyone has different needs, which is why we offer a range of reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process. Please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments to help you through the application process or to attend an interview with us by contacting [email protected]

Interview & Hiring Process:
Most of our recruitment processes are virtual, so you’ll get to know our hiring managers and teams over the phone and through video. If we need you to attend a physical in person interview your recruiter will inform you of this.

We do not accept any unsolicited CV’s from recruitment agencies.  If you are a recruitment agency on our PSL our talent team will contact you directly should we require any assistance.

Find out more about Life At TU UK:
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https://www.linkedin.com/company/transunion/life/

This is a hybrid position and involves regular performance of job responsibilities virtually as well as in-person at an assigned TU office location for a minimum of two days a week.

TransUnion Job Title

Sr Consultant, Risk Management