Risk Business Partner

Salary

£57,000.00 - £70,000.00 Per year ‌

Are you an experienced Risk Business Partner looking for your next opportunity?

We have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Risk Business Partner to join our Risk and Assurance team at Sovereign Network Group (SNG). This is a high-impact role that plays a pivotal part in safeguarding SNG’s resilience, reputation and long-term sustainability. You’ll lead the strategic oversight and challenge of risk across a broad business portfolio, ensuring that material risks to strategy, operations, customer outcomes and regulatory compliance are proactively identified, assessed and effectively managed.

Based from our offices in Basingstoke or Wembley , you'll combine home and office working to ensure a positive work / life balance. There may be some occasional travel to our other offices for meetings or workshops.

The Role

Reporting into the Head of Risk, you'll operate as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, providing independent second-line assurance, delivering robust insight, foresight and evidence-based challenge to influence decision making. You'll play a crucial role in embedding a proactive risk management culture within SNG, enabling confident, informed risk-taking within appetite and strengthening enterprise-wide risk maturity and culture.

Responsibilities include:

• Acting as the primary second-line risk lead for designated business areas, building strong, trusted relationships with senior leadership teams

• Partnering with internal stakeholders to embed a risk-aware culture, ensuring risk is considered in strategic planning, investment and change decisions, and that appropriate forums receive timely risk insight and challenge

• Influencing strategic planning, transformation programmes and investment decisions by ensuring risk considerations are fully embedded and aligned to organisational risk appetite

• Providing credible, independent and constructively challenging advice to senior stakeholders, balancing commercial and operational realities with risk discipline

• Identifying systemic risks, cross-cutting themes and emerging threats, influencing organisational responses and long-term resilience planning

• Driving continuous improvement in risk maturity, embedding best practice and innovative approaches across the organisation

• Ensuring consistent and effective application of the risk management framework across assigned areas, promoting strong first-line accountability.

• Contributing to high-quality, forward-looking reporting for Executive Committee, Audit & Risk Committee and Board

What we're looking for

You should have previous experience in a similar role, with demonstrable technical knowledge and skills in enterprise risk management, including operating effectively as a second line of assurance and applying proportionate oversight and independent challenge. A background in housing is not essential but ideally you'll have experience from a large organisation with a range of risk areas to consider. You'll also have:

• Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence and engage stakeholders at all levels, providing constructive challenge and articulating clear risk opinions

• Experience in supporting the implementation of a robust risk management framework

• Clear communication skills, ensuring technical information is presented clearly and concisely

• An agile approach, confident to work successfully on multiple projects at different stages and effectively prioritise tasks

• A high level of integrity, independence and professionalism, with the ability to remain objective and evidence-led when advising and challenging

• A professional risk management qualification (e.g. IRM)

• Experience using risk, compliance or assurance tooling, and the ability to interpret data to produce insight for senior stakeholders

• Experience in designing and / or delivering risk management awareness and training programmes is desirable

Please note: First stage interviews will be held towards the end of July

We have some great benefits at SNG, including:

• 25 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays (with an extra day every year up to 30 days)

• Chance to buy or sell holiday as part of our flexible benefits package

• 3 additional wellbeing days and 2 paid volunteering days

• Generous matched pension scheme up to 12% and Life cover at 4x salary

• Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption pay

• Options for private medical insurance, dental insurance and critical illness cover

• Wellbeing discounts, including Gym Memberships and access to a 24/7 virtual GP service

At Sovereign Network Group, we are passionate about inclusion for all and creating a workplace where everyone can thrive. We are committed to our Equality Diversity and Inclusion strategy and believe that you can truly be yourself at SNG. Take a look at our careers site to learn more about us and our values.