About this role
Working Pattern: Hybrid – 50/50
Morson Edge are representing an established UK financial services organisation focused on providing tailored banking and financial solutions to specialist markets.
The business has a strong focus on customer outcomes, long-term relationships and maintaining a high-performing culture built around integrity and excellence.
The Enterprise Risk function operates as an independent Second Line of Defence, providing oversight and challenge across financial and non-financial risks.
The team covers areas including Operational Risk & Resilience, Treasury Risk, Climate & ESG, Risk Governance, Third Party Risk, Technology, IT, Cyber and emerging risks such as Artificial Intelligence.
This is a senior position within the Enterprise Risk team, with responsibility for strengthening risk frameworks, delivering assurance and providing clear insight to senior management and Board-level stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
Operational Risk Oversight & Assurance
- Provide Second Line oversight and constructive challenge across First Line Operational Risk activities, including RCSAs, scenario analysis and control effectiveness assessments.
- Lead key control assurance, thematic reviews and risk deep-dives, identifying control gaps, weaknesses and systemic issues.
- Oversee operational risk events and incidents, ensuring robust root-cause analysis, remediation and lessons learned.
- Maintain and continuously enhance the Operational Risk Management Framework, policies and supporting guidance.
- Lead the delivery and implementation of a strategic GRC solution, from requirements gathering and vendor selection through to testing and embedding.
Operational Resilience & Non-Financial Risk
- Strengthen Second Line oversight of Operational Resilience, ensuring alignment with regulatory expectations and industry best practice.
- Provide oversight of Important Business Services, impact tolerances and scenario testing.
- Develop and maintain Operational Resilience and Third Party Risk Management frameworks.
- Provide Second Line oversight across Third Party, Cyber & Information Security, Technology & IT, and AI Risk.
- Provide independent challenge, ensuring non-financial risks are effectively governed and integrated into the wider Enterprise Risk Framework.
To be considered
- Significant Operational or Enterprise Risk experience within Financial Services or another highly regulated environment. Idelly within retail banking
- Strong Second Line of Defence experience, including independent oversight and challenge.
- Good knowledge of UK regulatory requirements relating to Operational Risk, particularly PRA and FCA expectations.
- Practical experience across Operational Resilience, including Important Business Services, impact tolerances and scenario testing.
- Exposure to TPRM, Cyber/IT Risk and emerging risks such as AI.
- Experience preparing and presenting risk information to Executive and Board-level committees.
- Strong ability to develop pragmatic and scalable risk solutions within evolving environments.
- Experience with GRC systems, risk tooling, analytics, dashboards and KRIs.
- A proactive approach to emerging areas of risk, including AI, data and digital resilience.
About risk & resilience roles for ex-police
Risk management, business continuity and emergency-planning roles. Contingency planning, threat assessment and multi-agency coordination experience from policing is directly transferable.
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- Working to legislation & regulation
What risk & resilience roles pay ex-police
Advertised UK ranges, editorial estimates reviewed July 2026
| Resilience / BC analyst | £35,000–£48,000 |
| Business continuity / resilience manager | £50,000–£70,000 |
| Crisis management lead | £65,000–£85,000 |
| Head of resilience | £80,000–£110,000+ |