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VP, HR Risk & Controls - Strategy, Influence, Impact

Job in Bournemouth, Dorset County, BH1, England, UK
Listing for: Job Search Place Limited
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-06-08
Job specializations:
  • Finance & Banking
    Risk Manager/Analyst, Regulatory Compliance Specialist
  • Management
    Risk Manager/Analyst, Regulatory Compliance Specialist
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 100000 - 125000 GBP Yearly GBP 100000.00 125000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below

Join a high impact team where you will shape how we manage risk and strengthen our control environment across Human Resources. You will lead complex, cross functional initiatives, influence senior stakeholders, and see your work translate into firmwide outcomes. Here, you will grow your career through stretch opportunities, mentorship, and access to a global network of risk and control professionals. You bring curiosity and courage to challenge the status quo-we provide the platform to make it happen.

As a Control Manager - Vice President within the Human Resources Control Management team, you drive a proactive risk and control culture that protects our customers, employees, and brand. You will partner with Human Resources leaders and cross functional teams to design, implement, and continuously improve our control framework. You translate strategy into action-identifying risks, advising on controls, and leading remediation to reduce operational, regulatory, and reputational risk.

Together, we champion an environment of accountability, transparency, and continuous improvement. You will collaborate across people operations, technology, legal, and compliance partners to evaluate end to end processes, strengthen legal and regulatory obligation adherence, and enable scalable, sustainable solutions. Your ability to influence, simplify, and execute in a fast paced environment will help us deliver consistent, high quality outcomes for colleagues and stakeholders.

Job

responsibilities
  • Lead creation and reinforcement of a proactive risk and control culture, using proven evaluation strategies and change management.
  • Drive end to end execution of control and operational risk evaluation activities, including issue identification, root cause analysis, and sustainable remediation.
  • Design, implement, and maintain an effective control framework in partnership with Human Resources and cross functional stakeholders.
  • Assess business strategies and processes; advise on risk management and identify opportunities to streamline and improve controls.
  • Identify, escalate, monitor, and measure operational risks in line with firmwide programs and standards.
  • Provide independent risk and control advice and challenge, including targeted reviews and thematic analysis.
  • Develop practical, strategic risk mitigation solutions that reduce financial, regulatory, and reputational exposure.
  • Support portfolio processes such as legal obligations management, inter affiliate services oversight, and related control programs.
  • Translate complex data and metrics into insights to detect emerging risks and inform decision making.
  • Influence senior leaders and drive alignment to deliver timely, effective outcomes.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
  • Experience in financial services across controls, audit, risk management, compliance, or quality assurance.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to influence senior stakeholders.
  • Strong analytical and problem solving skills, including root cause analysis, control deficiency identification, and metrics based risk monitoring.
  • Proven ability to design, implement, and evaluate control environments and risk mitigation solutions.
  • Demonstrated program execution and time management skills to meet strict deadlines in a fast paced environment.
  • Proficiency in process analysis and control design to reduce operational, regulatory, and reputational risks.
  • Ability to assess risk across legal, regulatory, operational, client, and reputational dimensions and apply materiality and practical judgment.
  • Change management and implementation skills, including writing actionable plans and procedures and driving sustainable adoption.
  • Capability to interrogate processes, simplify controls, and pursue innovative, technology enabled solutions where feasible.
  • Courage to challenge assumptions, foster accountability, and drive continuous improvement.
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience; proficiency with Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, Visio).
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
  • Human Resources domain experience.
  • Experience strengthening control programs within HR, shared services, or people operations.
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