Job Description:

Job information Head of Oversight Group Operational Risk (Technology, Security, and Payments Risk Oversight) from the Company Nationwide, this latest Head of Oversight Group Operational Risk (Technology, Security, and Payments Risk Oversight) job vacancy is located in the city Hybrid work in Swindon SN located in the country United Kingdom . This latest job opening is open to job seekers who have the latest education / graduate GCSE . Job Vacancies in this Head field have been opened and published up to the specified time.

Job Responsibility:

We're navigating significant change at Nationwide. It's an exciting time as we evolve to a new future that sees us accelerate delivery of our strategic aims, value to our Members and engage colleagues around new ways of working.

At the same time, we are investing in the Operational Risk Oversight team in the second line of defence. We are increasing the capacity, seniority, and technical capability of the team to ensure we are able to continue to add customer value by investigating, challenging, and influencing across the Society.

As Head of Technology, Security, and Payments Risk Oversight, this new Senior role provides a compelling opportunity to lead a part of the Operational Risk Oversight team, supporting the Operational Risk Oversight Director, who reports directly to the Chief Risk Officer as part of the independent Second Line Risk function.

We're looking for a talented individual, who may have been a CIO, to provide strategic leadership of our Technology, Security, and Payments risk oversight agenda, working closely with the first line risk owners, Exco members, senior leadership team, as well as partners across the Society's 3 Lines of Defence and UK Regulators.

This significant role brings together oversight of three risk types that are predominantly Technology based. These underpin the provision of all banking services to our customers and supports Operational stability, financial security, and customer trust. Understanding and managing these risk types effectively is a critical part of our Enterprise Risk Management Framework. Rapid technological advances, such as Cloud, Artificial Intelligence and sophisticated cyber attacks, has led to greater reliance than ever before on complex architectures and third party provided services. This requires an evolving set of skills both to operate and maintain systems and ensure they are secure from successful external and internal attacks. The Technology and Security frameworks, including controls and processes remains focussed on maintain secure and available services.

You will play a pivotal role in identifying, assessing, and mitigating risks related to our information technology systems. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, drive risk awareness, and implement effective controls to protect our organization from security threats, vulnerabilities, and software weaknesses.

At Nationwide we offer hybrid working wherever possible. More rewarding relationships are supported through our hybrid approach, bringing colleagues together across our UK wide estate, whilst also supporting generous access to home working. We value our time in the office to solve problems, to learn, and to feel connected.

For this job you'll spend at least two days per week, or if part time you'll spend 40% of your working time, at one of our offices. If your application is successful, your hiring manager will provide further details on how this works. You can also find out more about our approach to hybrid working here.

If we receive a high volume of relevant applications, we may close the advert earlier than the advertised date, so please apply as soon as you can.

What you'll be doing

As part of this role, you will be responsible for:

• Enhance and deliver an effective oversight approach for the three distinct risk categories: Technology, Security, and Payments. Each are at differing levels of maturity with oversight accountability of various multi-year technical and business strategies. The oversight approach must consider internal stakeholders, customer and legal/regulatory obligations.
• To provide strategic leadership to the team in delivering its objective to provide assurance to executive management and the Board Risk Committee on the adequacy and effectiveness of risk and control management across the specific business areas and all those where the policies apply.
• Maintain a forward looking view, both internally and externally, on new technologies, regulation and, and legislation that could impact Nationwide, for example Cloud, AI, Quantum Computing, and changes to the Payment Service Directive. Provide a horizon scanning service to business areas.
• Maintaining high value relationships with a sufficient depth of technical and business understanding of their area, project impacts, priorities and risks. You will ensure that the key risks and controls are sufficiently prominent and accounted for. This will cover all levels and capabilities from Architects, Business Analysts, 1st Line Risk partners, and Product owners.
• Leading your teams oversight in various ways to suit the oversight activity. This could include “Close and Continuous” oversight, and undertaking risk and control based “formal oversight reviews” if required.
• Using your experience of Technology to seek out weaknesses in the environment for remediation by first line, before incidents occur. When incident do happen, be part of the Significant Incident Management Process to support closure, and then participate in Post Incident Reviews to prevent reoccurrence.
• Assessing business area compliance against the Enterprise Risk Management Framework (ERMF) requirements. The ERMF includes business and regulatory requirements on, risks, controls, policies, and scenario analysis.
• Deputising for the Operational Risk Director and other senior members of the team as required.

About you

We'll need you to have a demonstrable track record of Technology operation and leadership, within a Retail Banking/Financial Services firm, such as a current or ex-Chief Information Officer (CIO) or within their senior leadership team. This will enable you to have clear expectations of what can go wrong and what preventative action can be taken. You may have experience of working within, or oversighting Technology and Security Frameworks such as NIST, ITIL, and COBIT, within Financial Services, Professional Services, or a Regulator.

• You will have been an CIO / Head of Security Risk or Head of Operational Risk or Head of IT/Architecture infrastructure, providing strategic leadership of our Technology, Security, and Payments risk oversight agenda, where you have worked closely with the first line risk owners, Exco members, senior leadership team as well as partners across the Society's 3 Lines of Defence and UK Regulators.
• Proven ability to demonstrate decisiveness and sound judgement on a consistent basis. With strong critical thinking, you'll comprehend and assimilate information rapidly, break down complex problems and provide support and challenge to risk owners in a clear and understandable way to suit different audiences, from Board level through to wider colleague engagement.
• Significant experience of oversight of three risk types that are predominantly Technology based. These underpin the provision of all banking services to our customers and supports Operational stability, financial security, and customer trust.
• Understanding and managing these risk types effectively is a critical part of our Enterprise Risk Management Framework. Rapid technological advances, such as Cloud, Artificial Intelligence and sophisticated cyber attacks,
• Interpersonally, you will have experience of working on a regular basis with Director and Exco level stakeholders and you can develop high value relationships at all levels.
• You will have extensive leadership experience and be able to nurture and lead a high performing team.
• Being resilient and calm under pressure is key, stepping back and considering the bigger picture and being comfortable leading through uncertainty and ambiguity.

Our Customer First behaviours are all about putting customers and members at the heart of how we work together. You can strengthen your application by showing the behaviours that resonate with you, and how you might have already demonstrated these.

• Say it straight - This is about being honest and direct with good intent and saying what needs to be said in the room. It's also about being clear, precise, and using language that we and, importantly, our customers and members can understand.
• Push for better - This is about aiming high and constantly looking for better in how we work together and serve our customers and members.
• Get it done - This is about prioritising what will have the greatest impact, being decisive and taking accountability for delivering on the end-to-end outcome.

We know applying for jobs can sometimes feel like you're sending an application into a black hole. We review each application individually. So, it's a good idea to call out your most relevant experience on your application to give yourself the best chance.

The extras you'll get

There are all sorts of employee benefits available at Nationwide, including:

• A personal pension - if you put in 7% of your salary, we'll top up by a further 16%
• Up to 2 days of paid volunteering a year
• Life assurance worth 8x your salary
• A great selection of additional benefits through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Wellhub - Access to a range of free and paid options for health and wellness.
• Access to an annual performance related bonus
• Access to training to help you develop and progress your career
• 30 days holiday, pro rata
• Individual healthcare cover

What makes us different

Nationwide is the world's largest building society. With over 15 million customers, we have a relationship with almost a quarter of the UK's population. We've got the scale to compete with the big banks, but we're not a bank.

As a building society, we're owned by our members - that's our customers who have their current account, mortgage or savings with us. It means we can do things differently to deliver our Purpose - Banking - but fairer, more rewarding, and for the good of society.

When you work at Nationwide, you can experience that difference for yourself. You'll be part of a high-performing, purpose-driven organisation that offers rewarding career experiences and a highly competitive range of benefits to match. You'll also be joining us at an important time as we seek to reach more and more people in the UK. We want everyone in the UK to know that they don't have to bank with a bank. They can choose a modern mutual instead.

What to do next

If this role is for you, please click the ‘Apply Now' button. You'll need to attach your up-to-date CV and answer a few quick questions for us.

We respond to everyone, so we will be in contact shortly after the closing date to let you know the outcome of your application.

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Closed Date : 2024-12-18