Hello, we’re Starling. We built a new kind of bank because we knew technology had the power to help people save, spend and manage their money in a new and transformative way. We’re a fully licensed UK bank with the culture and spirit of a fast-moving, disruptive tech company. We’re a bank, but better: fairer, easier to use and designed to demystify money for everyone. We employ more than 3,000 people across our London, Southampton, Cardiff and Manchester offices.
We are seeking an experienced strategic leader to join our Team as the Head of Risk Strategy and Reporting. This role is responsible for overseeing the governance framework for risk management and developing the risk oversight approach for both strategic risks that could impact the long-term objectives of the organisation and Group Enterprise wide risk management.
This role is a 12 month fixed term contract.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Risk Governance & Reporting
- Develop, implement, and maintain the enterprise risk governance framework in alignment with industry best practices and regulatory requirements
- Lead executive risk governance committees and facilitate regular reporting, including the Chief Risk Officer’s Risk Report to executive leadership and the board
- Develop risk metric reporting and analysis to enhance and automate risk insight
- Leverage data, analytics, and technology to enhance risk intelligence and decision-making.
2. Group Enterprise Wide Risk OVersight
- Develop the risk oversight approach to support the Organisations development of a Group structure and risk management framework to enable the future growth and expansion of the organisation
- Ensure risk aggregation and reporting is in place to provide an effective ‘Group’ view of risk management
2. Strategic Risk Management
- Support the Identification of strategic risks, including macroeconomic, geopolitical, market, and technological risks
- Partner with strategy, finance, and business unit leaders to embed risk management into strategic planning and decision-making
3. Statutory Reporting and Risk Management
- Monitor and ensure regulatory reporting requirements are in place for risk governance and the statutory accounts
5. Leadership & Stakeholder Engagement
- Build and lead a high-performing team of risk professionals specialising in governance, Enterprise wide and strategic risk
- Act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, providing insights and recommendations on key risk exposures.
- Ideally a minimum of 5 years of experience in risk management, with at least 2 years in a leadership role.
- Deep knowledge of enterprise risk management (ERM), strategic risk, and governance frameworks.
- Proven track record in leading cross-functional risk initiatives and engaging with executive-level stakeholders
- Strong analytical, strategic thinking, and problem-solving abilities.
- Positive leadership and people management skills.
- Excellent communication and presentation capabilities
- High integrity, sound judgment, and decision-making capability under pressure
- Relevant certifications or degree in Risk Management are desirable
- 25 days holiday (plus take your public holiday allowance whenever works best for you)
- An extra day’s holiday for your birthday
- Annual leave is increased with length of service, and you can choose to buy or sell up to five extra days off
- 16 hours paid volunteering time a year
- Salary sacrifice, company enhanced pension scheme
- Life insurance at 4x your salary & group income protection
- Private Medical Insurance with VitalityHealth including mental health support and cancer care. Partner benefits include discounts with Waitrose, Mr&Mrs Smith and Peloton
- Generous family-friendly policies
- Incentivised refer a friend scheme
- Perkbox membership giving access to retail discounts, a wellness platform for physical and mental health, and weekly free and boosted perks
- Access to initiatives like Cycle to Work, Salary Sacrificed Gym partnerships and Electric Vehicle (EV) leasing
About Us
You may be put off applying for a role because you don't tick every box. Forget that! While we can’t accommodate every flexible working request, we're always open to discussion. So, if you're excited about working with us, but aren’t sure if you're 100% there yet, get in touch anyway.
We’re on a mission to radically reshape banking – and that starts with our brilliant team. Whatever came before, we’re proud to bring together people of all backgrounds and experiences who love working together to solve problems.
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What We Do
Hello, we’re Starling.
Banking was broken – so we decided to fix it. The vision? Fast technology, fair service and honest values. All at the tap of a phone, all the time.
We built Britain’s first digital bank.
One hard-won banking licence later, we set about giving people a new way to spend, save and manage their money (and take better care of the planet, too).
We’re changing banking for good.
Back then, we were obsessed with unravelling the knotty world of finance and solving people’s problems rather than selling them stuff. We still are.
Since then, we’ve grown. A lot.
Over three million accounts (and four account types!). A team of thousands. Headquartered in London with offices in Cardiff, Dublin, Manchester and Southampton. Five years voted Which? Recommended Provider and Britain's Best Banking Brand. Still zero branches.
Our culture is open, inclusive and focused on solving real customer problems, with an emphasis on doing the right thing, even when it’s not always the easy thing. From our approach to working together and sustainability to how we build our products, our decisions need to make the world – and Starling – a better place to be.
Everyone at Starling is essential to our mission, which is really quite simple: to solve our customer’s problems – and build the best bank in the world!
And now we're providing Starling to other banks, via a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) proposition through our subsidiary Engine, using the proprietary technology platform that it uses to power our own bank.
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