Operational Risk Business Partner

Job Description:

Operational Risk Business Partner

Brighton, Manchester, London, Staines

Permanent

From £56,000 (DOE) + fantastic benefits

Full time; 37.5 hours per week  

We consider all types of flexibility, including locations, hours and working patterns.

Working in our UK support functions you’ll play a key part in helping our customer facing colleagues deliver exceptional standards of customer service and patient care. No matter your role, you’ll have an opportunity to do work that matters. Making a difference to the lives of our customers each and every day.

The role

In this position you will be responsible for leading work to implement the Risk Management Framework for identification, reporting and escalation of risk to the appropriate Executive teams. 

Acting as part of the Business Partnering team you will lead a range of specific risk oversight tasks across different areas of the business and UK Regulated Entities.  You will build positive and open relationships with business team managers and leaders.

You’ll help us make health happen by

• Leading work to support and challenge the management of operational risk
• Providing advice and guidance on risk management to foster high achieving, well controlled business functions
• Developing and promote operational elements of the Risk Management Framework (RMF) including risk appetites, emerging risks and incident capture and analysis
• Supporting business teams in consistently applying the RMF to identify, assess, manage, monitor and report all material risks using appropriate tools
• Supporting, challenging and overseeing the end to end Incident process, ensuring all risk exposure, root cause and control gaps and remediation is identified
• Supporting the Head of Operational Risk – Business Partnering in the development, execution and oversight of the Operational Risk Framework
• Supporting the effective operation of technical and risk committees
• Delivering regular operational risk reporting information from across the insurance businesses to support effective decision making by senior executives and risk committees

Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role

• Functional knowledge of risk, control and regulation
• Experience of designing and implementing governance frameworks, providing oversight and improving control environments
• Able to manage complex and a high level of data and information and deliver operationally
• Ability to analyse complex information to identify the key issue/action and drive resolution
• Demonstrate excellent stakeholder management
• Experience of managing operational risk (1st, 2nd or 3rd line) in an insurance business
• Knowledge of best practice operational risk management and governance frameworks, methodologies, and emerging practice
• Experience of the UK domestic and international regulatory environment and key regulatory regimes

Benefits

Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health – from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.

Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:

• 25 days holiday, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell
• Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind
• An enhanced pension plan and life insurance
• Annual performance-based bonus
• Onsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available
• Various other benefits and online discounts

Why Bupa?

We’re a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.

We encourage all of our people to “Be you at Bupa”, we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve.  That’s why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

As a Disability Confident employer, we offer a guaranteed interview for every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. We’ll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.

Time Type:

Full time

Job Area:

Legal, Risk & Audit

Locations:

Bupa Place, Staines - Willow House