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Risk Officer (12 month FTC)
| Posting date: | 17 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | £38,000 to £42,000 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 01 July 2025 |
| Location: | Canary Wharf, London, E14 4PU |
| Company: | Nest Corporation |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 56998147 |
Summary
Role Overview
We are seeking a proactive and collaborative Risk Officer to join our Enterprise Risk team in a vital role supporting the development and delivery of Nest’s Risk Management Framework.
What you'll do
- Monitoring and reporting: Monitoring risk indicators and preparing risk reports.
- Risk management: Supporting the organisation in identifying and managing its risks.
- Policy management: Working in partnership with different teams to manage their policies.
- Contribute to the delivery of key risk initiatives, including the rollout of the new Risk & Compliance system.
- Project involvement: Playing a part in supporting projects across the organisation with project risk management.
Don't worry if you think you don't have all the key skills, it might be worth taking the few minutes to apply as we're good at spotting potential and offer a generous training budget.
Please download a full job description to find a full scope, deliverables, experience and personal attributes required for this role.
Flexible and agile working
Everyone's personal situation is different.
To make the most out of hybrid working, we've introduced different ways of working, which include (subject to role requirements):
- hybrid of office (Canary Wharf, London) and home working (there will be an expectation to attend the office, once - twice a week, or more, as required)
- reduce or vary working hours
- reduce or vary the days worked
- work compressed hours
- job share
Click here to see the benefits we offer at Nest.
For more information about our recruitment process click here
Directorate/Department Overview
The Risk & Compliance directorate comprises the enterprise risk team, the compliance team, the Information Security and Data Protection teams. As a second line function, it provides advice and support to the business on risk and compliance and it oversees and provides compliance assurance.
The Enterprise Risk function is a small team which is accountable for the development, implementation and on-going maintenance of the risk management and controls framework across Nest and oversight of the management of key risks and controls. The team is also responsible for ensuring adequate insurance coverage for the business in line with the insurable risks that Nest faces.
Organisational Overview
Nest is an award-winning workplace pension scheme, the largest in the country.
Set up by the government to give every worker in the UK somewhere to save, our first-class responsible investment practice and governance are the backbone of what we do, supported by all the functions you’d expect to find in a thriving business. We’re committed to creating a workplace where you can be your authentic self and offer an inclusive and flexible working environment.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Everyone is welcome to apply for our roles, and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment because of their age, disability, gender identity, marital status, national origin, pregnancy or caring responsibilities, race, religion/belief, sex, sexual orientation or socio economic background.
We also recognise the importance of diversity of thought and other forms of neurocognitive variation.
Nest is a Disability Confident Leader, which is the highest level of the Disability Confident Scheme. If you have disability, declare that you’re applying through the scheme and meet the minimum criteria for this role, we aim to invite you to an interview. However, there may be a few exceptions where we are not able to take all eligible candidates to the next stage due to the volume of applications.
Please note that this advert may close early if we receive a sufficient number of satisfactory applications.
If you have any difficulty in sending your application or need the application pack in an alternative format, or you require any reasonable adjustments please contact careers@nestcorporation.org.uk.
We are seeking a proactive and collaborative Risk Officer to join our Enterprise Risk team in a vital role supporting the development and delivery of Nest’s Risk Management Framework.
What you'll do
- Monitoring and reporting: Monitoring risk indicators and preparing risk reports.
- Risk management: Supporting the organisation in identifying and managing its risks.
- Policy management: Working in partnership with different teams to manage their policies.
- Contribute to the delivery of key risk initiatives, including the rollout of the new Risk & Compliance system.
- Project involvement: Playing a part in supporting projects across the organisation with project risk management.
Don't worry if you think you don't have all the key skills, it might be worth taking the few minutes to apply as we're good at spotting potential and offer a generous training budget.
Please download a full job description to find a full scope, deliverables, experience and personal attributes required for this role.
Flexible and agile working
Everyone's personal situation is different.
To make the most out of hybrid working, we've introduced different ways of working, which include (subject to role requirements):
- hybrid of office (Canary Wharf, London) and home working (there will be an expectation to attend the office, once - twice a week, or more, as required)
- reduce or vary working hours
- reduce or vary the days worked
- work compressed hours
- job share
Click here to see the benefits we offer at Nest.
For more information about our recruitment process click here
Directorate/Department Overview
The Risk & Compliance directorate comprises the enterprise risk team, the compliance team, the Information Security and Data Protection teams. As a second line function, it provides advice and support to the business on risk and compliance and it oversees and provides compliance assurance.
The Enterprise Risk function is a small team which is accountable for the development, implementation and on-going maintenance of the risk management and controls framework across Nest and oversight of the management of key risks and controls. The team is also responsible for ensuring adequate insurance coverage for the business in line with the insurable risks that Nest faces.
Organisational Overview
Nest is an award-winning workplace pension scheme, the largest in the country.
Set up by the government to give every worker in the UK somewhere to save, our first-class responsible investment practice and governance are the backbone of what we do, supported by all the functions you’d expect to find in a thriving business. We’re committed to creating a workplace where you can be your authentic self and offer an inclusive and flexible working environment.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Everyone is welcome to apply for our roles, and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment because of their age, disability, gender identity, marital status, national origin, pregnancy or caring responsibilities, race, religion/belief, sex, sexual orientation or socio economic background.
We also recognise the importance of diversity of thought and other forms of neurocognitive variation.
Nest is a Disability Confident Leader, which is the highest level of the Disability Confident Scheme. If you have disability, declare that you’re applying through the scheme and meet the minimum criteria for this role, we aim to invite you to an interview. However, there may be a few exceptions where we are not able to take all eligible candidates to the next stage due to the volume of applications.
Please note that this advert may close early if we receive a sufficient number of satisfactory applications.
If you have any difficulty in sending your application or need the application pack in an alternative format, or you require any reasonable adjustments please contact careers@nestcorporation.org.uk.
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Disability Confident
About Disability Confident
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.