Senior Risk Manager

We are seeking an experienced and commercially minded Senior Risk Manager within Connells Group's second line of defence (2LOD) Risk function. This is a critical role in strengthening Connells Group's enterprise risk capability, supporting the identification, assessment, management, and reporting of risks across the organisation.

You will act as a trusted partner to senior stakeholders, embedding a proactive risk culture, enhancing governance frameworks, and ensuring that risk insights effectively inform strategic decision-making.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the ongoing development and enhancement of the Group Risk Management Framework (GRMF), ensuring alignment to regulatory expectations and industry best practice
• Drive consistent application of risk policies, standards, and methodologies across the business
• Monitor the firms risk profile and escape emerging risks to the Risk Committee and relevant governance forums in a timely manner.
• Champion a strong risk culture across the organisation
• Support training, awareness, and communication initiatives to embed risk management practices
• Promote clarity around roles and responsibilities (1st, 2nd, and 3rd line model)
• Identify opportunities to enhance risk processes, tools, and reporting capabilities
• Support implementation of automation and digital risk tooling where appropriate
• Contribute to maturity uplift of enterprise risk capability
• Lead and facilitate risk identification and assessment activities across business units
• Ensure risks are clearly articulated, appropriately scored (impact/likelihood), and aligned to risk appetite
• Challenge first-line assessments to ensure robustness, consistency, and transparency
• Ensure risk practices align with relevant regulatory requirements and expectations
• Support control environment assessments, including identification of weaknesses and improvement actions
• Collaborate with Compliance and Internal Audit to ensure alignment and minimise duplication
• Produce high-quality, executive-ready risk reports, dashboards, and insights
• Enhance risk MI to provide forward-looking, decision-useful information (trends, emerging risks, stress points)
• Support development of risk heatmaps, scenario analysis, and thematic reviews
• Contribute to the Group's RCSA (Risk and Control Self-Assessment) process and operational resilience programme.
• Oversee the tracking and management of risk events, issues, and remediation actions
• Ensure timely escalation of material risks and breaches
• Monitor delivery of mitigating actions and challenge delays or inefficiencies

Stakeholder Engagement

• Act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, supporting effective risk ownership and accountability
• Build strong relationships across functions (Operations, Finance, HR, IT, Compliance, Audit)
• Provide constructive challenge while maintaining a solutions-oriented approach

The ideal candidate:

• Significant experience in enterprise risk management within a complex organisation (financial services, property, or related sectors advantageous)
• Strong understanding of risk frameworks, governance, and regulatory expectations
• Proven ability to influence and challenge senior stakeholders effectively
• Experience producing Executive-level reporting
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capability
• Confident, balanced approach to risk: commercially aware without compromising independence