Business Governance Analyst
Marsh McLennan
Head of Risk
Homeprotect Home Insurance
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: London • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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Lead
About the role
- Design, implement, and maintain Homeprotect’s Risk Management Framework (RMF), ensuring alignment with regulatory requirements, risk appetite, and growth strategy.
- Embed risk culture across the firm, driving awareness, accountability, and consistent practices.
- Advise the Chief Risk & Compliance Officer, Board, and Audit & Risk Committee on strategic and emerging risk matters.
- Identify, assess, and monitor enterprise-wide risks, including strategic, operational, conduct, financial crime, data, cyber, outsourcing, and insurance risks.
- Lead scenario analysis, emerging risk reviews, and stress testing to evaluate potential impacts on the firm.
- Maintain risk registers, Risk & Control Self Assessments, and key risk indicators to support ongoing oversight.
- Provide independent second-line challenge of business risks and mitigation plans.
- Collaborate with senior leaders and risk owners to strengthen control effectiveness and embed resilience.
- Ensure mitigation strategies are proportionate, actionable, and aligned with risk appetite.
- Deliver clear, timely, and actionable risk reports to the CR&CO, Senior Leadership Team, and Audit & Risk Committee.
- Present risk insights and data in a format that drives informed decision-making.
- Support governance by ensuring risks are escalated, tracked, and addressed within agreed tolerances.
Requirements
- Extensive expertise and knowledge of direct risk management and leadership experience in RMF and Operational Risk Management areas.
- Thorough understanding of risk assessment best practices, concepts, practices, and tools.
- Exceptional analytical, problem solving and presentation/report writing skills, combined with a good understanding of business dynamics and commercial value drivers.
- Exceptional project delivery approaches to effectively lead risk management initiatives.
- Exceptional interpersonal and presentation skills; ability to work collaboratively and communicate effectively with diverse stakeholders. Intellectual mobility and inquisitiveness; Comfortable developing answers/solutions when requirements remain unclear or change.
- Experience in effectively championing risk governance across multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.
- Previous experience managing a risk program or framework and liaising with regulators.
- Strong knowledge with Governance, Risk and Compliance and other Controls frameworks.
- You will have a deep understanding of the technical discipline of implementing an RMF and a good understanding of the insurance industry and the unique risks that it faces.
- Exceptional capability for managing and leading people with the ability to lead, manage and motivate teams.
- Ability to work effectively and lead teams in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and adapt to change.
- Coach, mentor, and train staff, as well as other team members.
- Prior experience in home insurance or personal lines insurance.
- Relevant certification in Risk Management or related field is preferred.
- Exposure to machine learning/AI risk management (if relevant to pricing or claims).
- Experience with FCA or PRA thematic reviews or s166 (Skilled Person) reviews.
Benefits
- A genuinely flexible approach to work. We are really supportive of you flexing your hours and location to help you keep everything in your life in balance.
- Opportunities to focus on your professional growth whether that’s through training or other personal development opportunities - we want you to build your long-term career with us.
- Discount of 50% when you choose to take out a home insurance policy with us.
- An in-house wellbeing programme including seminars and workshops from wellbeing coaches and professionals.
- Home working starter kit and money to spend on additional equipment you may need.
- Charitable giving scheme, so you can donate to our partner charity, or one of your choices.
- The opportunity to work alongside brilliant people, because this isn’t something that every organisation can offer!
- 25 days’ holiday (plus bank holidays) and the ability to buy and sell >5 days annually.
- Private medical cover for all employees
- Financial Advice with Octopus Money
- Life insurance
- Annual discretionary bonus scheme
- Pension contribution
- Free fruit and really good coffee for the days you come into the office.
- Local and national retail discounts
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
Risk Management Framework (RMF)Operational Risk ManagementRisk assessment best practicesScenario analysisStress testingRisk & Control Self AssessmentsKey risk indicatorsGovernance, Risk and Compliance (GRC)Machine learning risk managementInsurance risk management
Soft skills
Analytical skillsProblem solvingPresentation skillsInterpersonal skillsCollaborationCommunicationLeadershipCoachingMentoringAdaptability
Certifications
Risk Management certification
