We are hiring an IT Risk Consultant who will provide technology and risk management expertise to the IT Risk Management activities undertaken by the second line of defence. 

You will be responsible for the oversight of the first line of defence technology risk and control owners and undertake specific second line of defence technology risk management activities. 

• Implementing and embedding a risk framework to identify, quantify, monitor and control IT & IS risks across LGRR and LGRI. As well as providing guidance to the first line of defence technology teams on the design of IT controls. 
• Managing and maintaining the processes and systems for identifying, controlling and reviewing key risks and control deficiencies and for ensuring appropriate action is taken by management. 
• Providing oversight and guidance to international businesses to ensure that they are aligned to divisional standards and manage operational risks within an acceptable tolerance. 
• Monitoring all IT audit actions, ensuring plans are in place to remediate the audit issues within the appropriate timescale.
• Providing advice and effective 2nd line of defence challenge for high priority security, infrastructure and applications projects and programmes.
• Maintaining, updating, developing and producing appropriate reporting to the Divisional Risk Committees.
• Monitoring IT risk and controls to ensure there is no detrimental impact to customer outcomes and treating customers fairly.

• Previous experience within IT Risk, an IT Control environment, IT Operations or IT Audit.
• An understanding of IT including applications, security, service and infrastructure management, databases, servers, middleware, messaging, mainframe and networks
• Knowledge of IT and Information Security risks, including availability, cyber/security, data integrity, change and outsourcing, and the associated controls.
• An understanding of the principles of risk management, 3 lines of defence model, governance frameworks, and risk and control reporting, including the design of KRIs and KCIs.
• Knowledge of the all the key products types within LGR including but not limited to:  all retail income annuity products, buy in and buy outs contracts and life time mortgages. Understand how they operate, the business service criticality and the key IT risks associated with them.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills
• The ability to collaborate with various stakeholders across different teams within LGR and Group

Whatever your role, we reward ability, performance and attitude with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Our employees have a wide range of benefits including a generous pension scheme, life assurance, 27 days' holiday, private medical insurance, performance related bonuses, a variety of share schemes, discounts at both a huge range of high street stores and our own great products. Your hard work will be rewarded when you join us.