Head of Risk
| Posting date: | 03 May 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 17 May 2024 |
| Location: | Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, AL7 1GA |
| Company: | Tesco |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | tesco/TP/14118400/883085 |
Summary
About the role
Group Risk and Audit is guided by the following Purpose:
Keeping Tesco safe for sustained success by influencing the business to improve governance, risk management and internal controls.
Our Vision is: to be valued co-pilots enabling the business to navigate current & emerging risks to deliver Tesco’s strategy. We are champions of DEI&B, passionate about our development to benefit our careers and maximise value to Tesco. We are recognised as proactive and innovative through leveraging the latest tech & data
As Head of Risk, you will be responsible for strengthening the Risk Management function including developing and embedding the risk management methodology and strategy. You will collaborate with key stakeholders, and in particular the leadership team you partner, to provide timely risk information that will support management’s decision making and encourage broader risk considerations.
You will be responsible for
- Leading the design and implementation of the Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) framework across the business.
- Developing and delivering a risk change programme of work which will allow continual improvement and add significant value to the business on risk management.
- Build and maintain strong collaborative working relationships with key stakeholders to promote, embed and develop risk management.
- Work with internal control functions and GRALT to develop and implement a risk road map for the Group.
- Work collaboratively with external parties to understand the implications of the evolving discipline of enterprise risk management, in particular risk trends, risk appetite frameworks, risk indicators.
- Producing accurate and timely information to key stakeholders such as Executive and Audit Committee and Board Reporting around risk.
- Leading a highly motivated and high-performance team of risk experts.
- Monitoring the Risk Management team budget effectively, always being cost conscious.
- Following our Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due diligence.
You will need
Technical
- CIMA, ACA or ACCA qualified Accountant or other suitable Risk/Audit qualification.
- Significant Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) / Internal Audit experience (>7 years).
- Proven functional leadership/management (including Line Management) experience.
- Proven innovation and change experience.
- Understanding of governance and compliance requirements, and related processes in large and complex organisations.
- Excellent analytic and problem-solving skills.
What we want to see in you:
- Personal drive and initiative, with the ability to work under pressure at a fast pace running concurrent projects.
- Project and change management skills with personal organisation and planning skills.
- Accuracy and thoroughness with an eye for detail and quality.
- Strong influencing skills with the ability to build stakeholder relationships.
- A strong desire to learn.
- A desire and willingness to build strong professional networks within and outside the company.
What’s in it for you
We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we give our wonderful colleagues bags of benefits. Including wellbeing services, an award-winning pension scheme and much, much more, our colleague reward package keeps on giving. And helps make every day a little better for you and your family. These include but are not limited to:
- Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary
- Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
- Buy holiday salary sacrifice scheme (for salaried roles)
- Private medical insurance
- Retirement savings plan - save between 4% and 7.5% and Tesco will match your contribution
- Life Assurance - 5 x contractual pay
- 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years’ service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave
- The right to request flexible working from your first day with us
- Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing
- A Colleague Clubcard for you & a family member (after 3 months of service), giving you access to lots of discounts in-store & online
- Great colleague deals and discounts, saving you money on everyday purchases, eating out and utility bills for the home
- Access to our colleague networks providing a space for colleagues to come together from a range of backgrounds. For more information about our colleague networks please click here
- Opportunities to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and award-winning training, to help you achieve the job and career you want
Click Here to read more about the full range of benefits we have available for our colleagues
About us
Tesco has become a market leader by doing the little things that really matter for our customers and colleagues.
It’s part of what makes Tesco such a great place to work, and we’re proud to have been accredited as one of Britain’s Top Employers again this year.
We're the UK's number one retailer and we pride ourselves on offering a great shopping experience. We are passionate about our food, merchandise and services and will always try to get things right for our customers.
But did you know we also offer great job opportunities? With stores, distribution centres and offices across the UK, and a vast variety of roles, we are always looking for people who have a hunger to work with customers and colleagues across our exciting business.
We believe in treating each other with respect and giving everyone an equal opportunity to get on. It's our people that make the difference every day - helping us make a difference for our customers
Should you be successful in your application, your offer will be subject to and conditional upon you providing your bank account details before your agreed start date.
For more information about us please visit www.tescoplc.com
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