Senior Risk & Control Design Consultant

We are partnering with a leading financial services client to recruit an experienced Senior Risk & Control Specialist to play a key role in strengthening technology risk management and ensuring a robust, audit-ready control environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the design, operation and continuous improvement of critical technology controls, ensuring they remain effective, efficient and audit-ready.
• Drive the implementation and ongoing enhancement of control frameworks, defining standards, measuring adoption and ensuring successful delivery across the organisation.
• Identify control gaps, assess associated risks and drive remediation activities through to completion, escalating where appropriate.
• Provide oversight of framework adoption, monitoring progress, identifying emerging risks and ensuring effective mitigation plans are in place.
• Partner with senior business and technology stakeholders to influence decision-making, secure alignment and deliver successful outcomes.
• Lead governance activities, ensuring risks, actions and control updates are accurately documented, tracked and reported.
• Communicate control performance, residual risk and emerging themes to senior leadership, providing clear and actionable insights.
• Champion a culture of continuous improvement across risk management and control processes.

Requirements:: We're looking for an experienced risk professional who brings:

• Extensive experience in control design, control operation and continuous control improvement.
• Strong knowledge of risk and control frameworks, technology risk management and governance within a regulated environment.
• A proven ability to identify, assess and remediate control weaknesses while maintaining a strong audit-ready environment.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and challenge senior leaders across business and technology functions.
• Experience operating within complex Matrix organisations, driving delivery through influence and effective governance.
• The ability to translate complex risk and control information into clear, meaningful insights for senior stakeholders.
• Experience leading teams, mentoring colleagues or driving capability development.
• Knowledge of Operational Resilience requirements and the regulatory landscape within financial services.
• A degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or a related discipline (or equivalent experience).
• Relevant professional certifications such as CRISC, CISM or CISA would be advantageous.

More details available on successful application.