Risk Business Partner

Job summary

Help shape better decisions and strengthen risk management across HM Land Registry.

Are you an experienced risk professional who enjoys working with senior leaders, providing constructive challenge and turning complex information into clear, actionable insight?

We're looking for a Risk Business Partner to join our Second Line Risk & Resilience team. You'll play an influential role in helping HM Land Registry understand and manage its most significant risks, supporting informed decision-making and the delivery of our strategic objectives.

Working closely with Directors and senior leadership teams, you'll provide independent advice, challenge existing thinking and help colleagues understand the balance between risk and opportunity.

This is an opportunity to influence decisions across a complex national organisation, strengthen its risk culture and help ensure that risk management is a valuable part of decision-making rather than simply a compliance exercise.

Job description

This is an influential role at the heart of HMLR's risk management framework.

As a Risk Business Partner, you'll be a trusted adviser to designated business areas, building strong relationships with senior leaders and supporting them to identify, assess and manage risks effectively.

You'll help leaders understand their risk exposure, apply HM Land Registry's risk appetite and evaluate the effectiveness of controls and mitigating actions. You'll provide independent, evidence-based challenge, helping ensure that significant risks receive appropriate management attention and are escalated when necessary.

A key part of your role will be turning information into insight. You'll bring together risk assessments, performance information, Key Risk Indicators and assurance findings to identify emerging threats, changing risk exposures and potential weaknesses in controls.

Your work will contribute to risk reporting, deep dives and discussions at senior governance forums, including Executive and Board-level committees, helping inform important organisational decisions.

You'll also champion a positive risk culture, coaching colleagues, sharing good practice and working collaboratively across HM Land Registry and the wider Government Risk Profession to improve our approach to risk management.

This is a role where your professional judgement, analytical skills and ability to influence others will make a meaningful contribution to the organisation.

Person specification

We're looking for an experienced risk professional who combines strong technical knowledge with excellent analytical, communication and influencing skills. You'll be comfortable working with senior leaders, providing constructive challenge and translating complex risk information into practical advice.

To be successful in this role, you will be assessed on:

· Risk management expertise: Strong practical knowledge and experience of identifying, assessing and managing risks and controls within a complex organisation.

· Influencing and constructive challenge: Experience of advising senior stakeholders, building trusted relationships and providing independent, evidence-based advice and challenge.

· Analytical thinking and judgement: The ability to interpret and combine qualitative and quantitative information, identify emerging risks and control weaknesses, and draw meaningful conclusions.

· Communication and insight: Experience of producing clear, concise analysis and briefings for senior decision-makers and communicating complex information to different audiences.

· Collaboration and relationship management: The ability to work effectively across organisational boundaries, influence outcomes and deliver through others without direct authority.

· Adaptability and delivery: Experience of managing competing priorities and delivering high-quality work in a changing and sometimes ambiguous environment.

Experience of applying risk appetite to decision-making, assessing control effectiveness and assurance, or using Key Risk Indicators and performance information to provide risk insight would be an advantage.

For further information about the role and its responsibilities, please see the attached job description.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Seeing the Big Picture
• Communicating and Influencing
• Making Effective Decisions

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Hold, or be working towards, an Institute of Risk Management qualification or another professional qualification with a significant risk management component

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £47,084, HM Land Registry contributes £13,640 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).

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#WeAreHMLR

At HM Land Registry our vision is a world leading property market as part of a thriving economy and a sustainable future. We are unique in terms of the economic and social impacts of our work, our ability to make a positive difference to the lives of our customers, our sense of mission, and our great people. They are the foundation of all we have achieved and all we aspire to in the future. We want our people to feel proud to work for HM Land Registry and able to fulfil their full potential.

We have a strong and positive culture, a commitment to inclusivity, an emphasis on continuous learning and development, and flexible ways of working. We offer competitive pay and annual leave, attractive pension options and a wide range of other benefits.

• We have integrity – we value honesty, trust and doing the right thing in the right way.
• We drive innovation – we are forward-thinking, embrace change and are continually improving our processes.
• We are professional – we value and grow our knowledge and professional expertise.
• We give assurance – we guarantee our services and provide confidence to the property market.

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/land-registry/about/recruitment#what-hm-land-registry-can-offer-you

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