Risk and Internal Control Manager

Morgan Hunt is recruiting for a Risk and Internal Control Manager to work with a Housing Trust based in East London on a Permanent basis. The details of the job are below:

Hours: Full-time 35 hours - 3 days office based and 2 days hybrid working

Salary: £44,408.37 - £49,972.11

Location: East London

Job Purpose

The Risk and Internal Control Manager is accountable for managing Risk and Internal Control within Trust Homes. This is a trusted adviser position, with substantial exposure to the Group Board, Executive Management Team and Senior Managers to effectively manage Risk and Internal Control.

The role focus is to protect all employees, customers and assets through the identification and assessment of threats and provide expert advice and support in the development of a robust risk management and internal controls framework.

The role has a key accountability for the development, implementation and management of the Trust Homes' Risk Management approach and all related policies and guidelines that support this.

Experience

· Educated to A level/Degree level

· Certified or Chartered Membership of a professional body, such as The Institute of Risk Management or Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors an advantage.

· Developing Risk management frameworks

· Interpreting data and reporting

· Requires a significant amount of proven experience gained in either an audit or risk manager role

· Ability to work with Board members and Senior Leaders across an organisation.

· Possess strong business acumen and excellent interpersonal skills

· Significant knowledge of risk and internal control processes

· High analytical ability and attention to detail

· Strong IT skills with advanced knowledge of MS Excel

Key Responsibilities

Performance Management

· Establishing ways to ensure risk awareness runs throughout the organisation.

· Ensure that Heads of Service and Managers are regularly reviewing and managing their risk registers.

· Ensuring that the internal controls framework is being adhered to.

· Carrying out quality checks on operational risk registers.

Risk Management

· Required to build capability across the organisation to effectively manage risk through a Risk Management framework and to ensure preparedness for, and resilience to

incidents and emergencies, including business continuity and other resilience planning arrangements.

· To work in collaboration with the Head of Governance and Internal Control to develop a Risk and Internal Control framework, which supports the organisation's strategic and

operational objectives.

· Develop and implement processes to assess and monitor the effectiveness of frameworks and adherence to standards as appropriate.

· Support the development and maintenance of Trust Homes' Strategic and Operational Risk Registers and monitor all active Risks.

· Provide written reports and reviews on Risks, Incidents, Emergency Preparedness, response and resilience for EMT, Audit & Risk Committee and the Board.

· Keep abreast of research relating to industry leading practices for Risk Governance matters, including Board practices relating to Risk Governance and provide advice and guidance to key stakeholders where required.

· Carry out horizon scanning to identify any emerging risks in our operating environment.

Business Continuity

· Support key stakeholders in the development, implementation, testing, audit and maintenance of Business Continuity plans

· Provide assurance to Board, Audit & Risk Committee and EMT that effective plans are in place which provides assurance that any disruption caused as a result of any significant incident is mitigated.

Audit

· Oversee the internal audit process, including operating controls, processes and practices and recommend changes and enhancements to existing policies and controls to make sure they are current and adequate.

· Build effective relationships with internal and external audit bodies to ensure that that the Group approach to audit controls is robust and effective.

· Liaise with responsible managers and officers to ensure that agreed management actions in response to audit findings and implemented, and report on completion of agreed actions to the Audit & Risk Committee.

· Use audits, feedback loops and recommend corrective action to ensure continuous improvement.

· Adviser to Audit and Risk Committee, EMT and senior managers to develop recommendations in order to resolve any non- compliance identified for audit findings and present these for review and agreement.

· Prioritise and escalate issues resulting in non-compliance to EMT and Audit & Risk Committee where necessary.

General

· Undertake continuing professional development, including mandatory and statutory updating

· Participate in research, audit and surveys as required to enhance knowledge of best practice

· Develop training programmes for all Managers in relation to risk, crisis management and incident response.

· Support Risk management activities within the wider Governance & Assurance team as required

Morgan Hunt is a multi-award-winning recruitment business for interim, contract and temporary recruitment and acts as an Employment Agency in relation to permanent vacancies. Morgan Hunt is an equal opportunities employer. Job suitability is assessed on merit in accordance with the individual's skills, qualifications and abilities to perform the relevant duties required in a particular role.