Technology and Data Risk and Compliance Manager
Newcastle Building Society
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Newcastle • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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💰 £47,221 - £70,831 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
ServiceNow
About the role
- Responsible for embedding a strong risk culture across technology.
- Play a critical role in creating standardisation across technology.
- Identify gaps in the current Enterprise Risk Management Framework and ensure plans are in place to resolve any issues.
- Identify, assess, and mitigate technology risks within the day-to-day operations.
- Ensure that risks are controlled, monitored, and reported.
- Provide operational governance over the 1st Line of Defence control environment.
- Proactively ensure understanding of the impact of evolving technology threats, regulatory changes, and industry trends.
- Support the assessment and reduction of residual risk to within risk appetite whilst driving timely and sustainable closure of audit and assurance actions.
- Facilitate risk workshops with Technology and Data service and control owners to identify and document inherent risks associated with Technology and Data processes, platforms, and change initiatives.
Requirements
- Extensive experience in Technology and Data Risk, Audit, or a Compliance role, preferably within Financial Services or regulated industries.
- Strong understanding of inherent and residual risk concepts, and control design principles.
- Familiarity with 1st line risk management practices, ideally within a technology function.
- Practical experience managing audit findings, remediation plans, and stakeholder coordination.
- Excellent stakeholder engagement, influencing, and communication skills.
- Strong documentation and reporting skills, including preparing materials for risk and audit committees.
- Experience delivering in 1st Line of Defence or integrated control functions.
- Proficient in risk tools (e.g., ServiceNow GRC, Archer, MetricStream) is a plus.
- Familiarity with risk frameworks and standards (e.g., ISO 27005, NIST, COBIT, FAIR).
Benefits
- Financial Corporate bonus scheme (on target 10%, up to a maximum 15%)
- Pension scheme (up to 9% employer contribution)
- Annual performance related pay reviews
- Colleague mortgage scheme
- Electric car salary sacrifice scheme
- Life assurance (4x salary) and income protection
- Access to our financial advisers
- Access to a range of high street and online discounts
- A 35-hour weekly contract - We are happy to talk flexible working and welcome discussions
- 30 days’ annual leave + bank holidays
- The option to buy and sell up to 5 days’ holiday
- Hybrid working (typically 3 days’ home based)
- Above statutory family leave entitlement - 3 months full pay, 3 months half pay, regardless of gender or route to parenthood
- Private medical insurance
- Access to a health cash plan through a Medicash scheme
- Access to an employee assistance programme
- Free onsite gym at our Cobalt head office and access to discounted gym’s
- Two paid volunteering days’ each year
- Cycle to work scheme
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
Enterprise Risk Management Frameworkrisk assessmentrisk mitigationcontrol design principlesaudit findings managementremediation plansstakeholder coordinationrisk frameworksISO 27005NIST
Soft skills
stakeholder engagementinfluencing skillscommunication skillsdocumentation skillsreporting skills