IT Risk and Governance Manager Guildford, England
Allianz UK
Full Time
Guildford, England
10.56 - 12.04 GBP Today
Job description
Are you an experienced IT Risk and Governance Manager looking for a new and exciting career opportunity?
Flexible Working
Here at Allianz we believe in supporting hybrid work patterns, which balance the needs of our customers, with your personal circumstances and our business requirements. Our aim with this is to help innovation, creativity and you to thrive.
Helping you achieve a good work life balance is important to us. Lots of our colleagues work flexibly including part time hours and/or job shares and we are happy to discuss these opportunities with you.
This role will involve working from home combined with time in our office in Guildford office one or two days per week.
About Us
In the UK, Allianz Insurance employs over 8,000 people up and down the country. The company’s Head Office is situated in Guildford, Surrey, plus we have additional support services with over 1,000 people based in Trivandrum, India.
We offer commercial insurance with a full range of products for sole traders, right up to large commercial organisations. We also provide a range of personal insurances including, home and motor, musical, legal expenses insurance and cover for pets and horses .
We're a global company, but from the very first day you join our team you’ll know that your contributions are valued. We offer world class learning and career development opportunities, while we celebrate an inclusive culture. Find out more about Allianz Insurance.
Role Purpose
The IT Risk and Governance Manager will provide leadership and direction in the development, implementation and effective monitoring of an IT risk management and control system compliant with accepted Group and local best practices. The post holder will support and provide leadership to the IT Risk and Governance team to ensure strategic control and assurance activities are implemented and operated to Group, local standards and agreed risk appetites across the IT environment.
The key responsibilities of the Risk and Governance team cover:
- Management of IT Risk, risk events (where applicable), KRIs and control improvements
- Testing of key controls
- Information Risk Management
- Assessments of the control environment including control testing
- Alignment and compliance with IT aspects of Allianz Corporate Rules
- Audit support
- Ensuring IT assurance and governance over service providers
- Monitoring and reporting of IT risks and controls
- Promoting a culture of risk awareness and education
Key Accountabilities
Strategy & Planning
- Manage the delivery of governance strategies to ensure IT operational risks are mitigated effectively according to business objectives and corporate risk appetites.
- Manages a set of key controls to provide assurance on key IT processes to meet internal and external stakeholder requirements
- Collaborate with IT teams to ensure that their duties are performed using good risk management techniques. This will include identifying and highlighting new risks and providing insight to
- demonstrate IT is acting within risk appetite.
- Monitor the external (UK regulatory) and internal (Group directives) environments for changes that may impact the IT Governance and Risk operation. Design and implement measures to
- maintain compliance.
- Contribute to the development of IT governance and risk strategy.
Management activities
- Act as the IT Lead for External Audits of IT General Controls.
- Produce reports on the effectiveness of IT assurance, risk mitigation and countermeasures ensuring that controls remain effective against existing and emerging risks and threats.
- Determine and evaluate risk mitigation plans and audit response plans and report the deficiencies or operational risks that exceed risk appetite or tolerance.
- Provide support in the production and delivery of Management Information to demonstrate governance performance.
- Manage the governance and maintenance of the Operations & IT risk registers.
- Working collaboratively with the IT Risk management team to ensure that there is evidence of: adherence to all IT risk policies and practices risk assessments and control testing being performed to a defined methodology which satisfy internal and external requirements the appropriate monitoring and management of risks and controls and that all necessary records are maintained working closely with risk owners to ensure all of their risk and actions are completed satisfactorily and in a timely manner excellent engagement with stakeholders, 2nd and 3rd line governance teams ensuring IT risk management is fully aligned and compliant with the IT & overall enterprise governance.
Common Activities
- Provides education and awareness training, advice and guidance to stakeholders.
- Ensures that IT management and staff are made aware of and understand the operational risks in their area and associated mitigating controls that have been put in place to address them.
- Understand the Allianz corporate framework and external regulatory requirements
- Manage the implementation of performance metrics to monitor and continually improve the effectiveness of IT governance.
Technical Skills:
- SME level expertise in respect of IT risk management processes, frameworks and procedures
- Identifying, assessing, monitoring and reporting of IT risk and compliance to senior stakeholders within Operations, IT, oversight functions and other business functions
- Full understanding, and “hands-on” experience of the oversight of IT Governance and Risk disciplines.
- Ensuring that an appropriate IT Governance & Risk framework, based on industry standard control frameworks, is implemented within delivery methods and other relevant processes.
- Supervising a comprehensive catalogue of IT controls and risks and the associated actions, control improvements or mitigations required.
- Articulating complex IT Governance and Risk issues in a readily understandable way to a non-technical audience.
- Collaborating with other functional areas, service providers and third parties – especially Allianz Technology, other change and run service providers and internal business stakeholders.
- Support the Head of IT Governance, Risk & Controls to ensure the oversight of all key controls necessary to maintain a safe and operationally compliant environment across Operations.
- Tracking and reporting on the progress of addressing issues raised in internal and external audits of Operations and IT. Escalating where insufficient progress or risk of audit deadline not being met.
- Strong delivery record
- Strong IT analysis skills and the ability to assess complex options and scenarios for effective recommendations and decision making
- Stays current with developments, trends and innovations within Technology and is able to understand and consider emerging threats and risks for effective mitigation
- Familiarity and expertise of relevant frameworks e.g. COBIT, ITIL.
Experience:
- Operating at a senior level in the IT risk management, controls and risk mitigation arena within a regulated industry
- Experience working in large, complex, multi-site, multi technology environments with responsibility for IT Controls and Governance.
- Working closely with and influencing peers and senior stakeholders
- Familiarity and expertise of relevant frameworks e.g. COBIT, ITIL.
- Experience leading and managing high-performing teams comprising capable and technically specialist individuals
Our Benefits
Recognised and rewarded for a job well done, we have a range of flexible benefits for you to choose from – including: retail discounts and discounted insurance cover - so you can pick a package that’s perfect for you. That’s on top of enjoying all the benefits you’d expect from the world’s number one insurance brand, including:
- 30 days holiday
- Competitive Annual Salary
- Car Allowance £5950
- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
- Flexible buy/sell holiday options
- Annual company & performance-based bonus
- Generous pension contributions and Life Cover up to 4 x salary
- Flexible working arrangements available
- Professional mental health support for all employees
- Health and Wellbeing
- We can offer fulltime and part time hours
- Development days
- A discount up to 50% on a range of insurance products including car, home and pet
- Retail discounts
- Access to Learning and Development opportunities such as LinkedIn Learning and our mentoring scheme
Growing your career with Allianz
We'll provide you with the tools to adapt and change with us, so you can grow your career, while building the skills needed for whatever the future brings.
Inclusion & Diversity
We believe that having a strong focus on Inclusion and Diversity enables us to better understand the customers we serve and the people across our teams. We recognise that people work in different ways and we value alternative viewpoints, celebrate individuality and foster a culture where everyone can bring their best self to work and feel a sense of belonging. It’s really important to us that we create a diverse workforce and we welcome and encourage applications from everyone.
We’re committed to providing reasonable adjustments and support to all applicants with a disability and we interview every applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. Please contact us at [email protected] to let us know if you have a disability and to discuss how we can support you throughout the application process.
Join us - Let’s Care For Tomorrow.
Job Level:
Management
Location:
Guildford, ENG, GB, GU1 1DB
Available until:
08/06/2023
Area of Expertise:
IT & Tech Engineering
Unit:
Allianz UK
Employing Entity:
Allianz Management Services Ltd
Job Type:
Full-Time
Remote Job:
Hybrid working
Employment Type:
Permanent
ID:
22363
