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Chief Risk Officer

Employer
Odgers Berndtson
Location
Leeds, West Yorkshire (GB)
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
1 Feb 2022

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Sector
Banking
Responsibilities
Finance
Position/Level
Director, Department Head
Contract Type
Permanent

Job Details

UK Infrastructure Bank

Chief Risk Officer

Leeds                                                                                      

The UK Infrastructure Bank (UKIB) is the new, government-owned policy bank, focused on increasing infrastructure investment across the United Kingdom. The bank will partner with the private sector and local government to finance infrastructure development to help the UK government create a net zero economy and drive local and regional economic growth.

The Chief Risk Officer is critical to ensuring the long-term success of the bank and will play a significant leadership role, reporting directly to the CEO. The appointee will be expected to:

  • Shape, build and drive high quality risk management processes, frameworks and culture across the organisation.
  • Build a second line of defence team with strong experience across key financial and non-financial risks.
  • Advise on risks relating to new investments and major strategic decisions.
  • Forge and positively maintain strong working relationships with all stakeholders including HM Treasury and key sponsor departments.
  • Embed a positive culture of confident and informed risk taking through training, communication and promotion of the risk framework.

The required experience and personal qualities include:

  • Experience of a wide range of relevant risk types, both financial and non-financial.
  • Significant exposure to corporate and investment banking risk, including managing credit exposures through different cycles (experience of infrastructure finance is desirable but not essential).
  • Strong understanding of enterprise-wide risk management.
  • Leadership experience to influence and challenge the business agenda to focus on key risk and compliance agendas.

Inclusion will be at the heart of what UKIB does. Diversity in the bank’s people and their ideas will be vital to the bank’s success. Appointments will be made on merit, with regard to maintaining the breadth of experience and expertise required and reflecting diversity in the broadest sense, to embrace different perspectives, characteristics and lived experience, as well as being broadly representative of the nations and regions of the UK.

Closing date: 23.55 23 January 2022.

Company

Odgers Berndtson is the UK’s pre-eminent executive search firm, helping private and public sector organisations find the highest calibre people for permanent and interim management appointments in the UK and internationally. As UK’s top executive headhunter we aspire to handle the most important executive recruitment for leading organisations in every industry sector and to combine our functional specialist expertise with thoroughness and speed to provide exceptionally responsive and effective service. We have the most extensive reach across the UK market for executive and non executive roles in both the public and private sector and are experienced in executive recruitment in sectors as diverse as financial services, charities, retail, healthcare, we also have extensive international reach. We have very talented people – some have been consultants with us for many years, some joined us from other market leaders, others come from the sectors they specialise in. Each headhunter works within well defined market sectors so that they gain knowledge and expertise of the requirements of that industry.

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