Third Party Risk Assurance Manager

We're making banking 10 times better.

Here at 10x Banking we believe banks are slowed down by their own legacy technology and we’re here to change that. Our community brings together banking industry knowledge with market-leading, next gen, cloud native technology required to move banking into the 21st century. 

The biggest banks around the globe use our platform to power some of the world’s most innovative financial propositions. And to do this we’re building an engineering team that has the breadth of knowledge and experience we need to push our product forward. 

We have headquarters in London and Sydney, but our 10x teams work around the globe with employees in Europe, Australia, Asia, Africa and all over the UK and Ireland.

Join us in our mission to transform banking for customers, banks and society!  

About the role 

Are you ready to make a significant impact in a fast-paced and innovative environment? We are looking for a Third Party Risk Assurance Manager to join our Risk team - your role will be crucial in ensuring the efficient and comprehensive management of external audits, supplier risks, and adherence to our enterprise and regulatory risk frameworks. 

In this diverse and exciting role, you will: 

• Lead Third-Party Management Assurance Activities: Take charge of due diligence and risk assessments, ensuring our tech third-parties align with our high standards. 
• Opportunity to work across the business: Assist the Senior Tech Assurance Manager and the wider Chief Risk & Resilience Office team with control testing activities, driving forward our risk management strategies.
• Support External Audits: Support audits such as SOC2 and ISO27001 
  

About you 

You are a self-motivated, all-rounded, collaborative and experienced professional with consultancy, financial services and or FinTech start-up / scale-up experience. You will join us at an exciting time in our business. 

If you don’t fully meet all the requirements but think you have what it takes to excel in the role, and are happy to get stuck in, we would love to hear from you!
 
You will be responsible for… 

• Leading a broad range of business activities by executing third-party risk assurance activities like due diligence processes (e.g risk assessment, issuing DDQs, reviewing third party due diligence responses and artefacts such as certifications and accreditations, audit reports, policies, etc) 

• Developing and enhancing third-party risk management framework and associated processes in line with good industry practice. 

• Leading Third Party Oversight Committee (TPOC) and associated control activities.  

• Leading Third Party Obligation (TPO) audits, and support SOC2, ISO27001 and other external audits. 

• Supporting business teams with the identification, remediation and reporting of risk events arising from the use of third parties. 

• Providing third-party risk management specialist support into ongoing third-party management activities ranging from service reviews, exit planning & management 

• Creation and presentation of high-quality reporting addressing assurance and control adequacy to stakeholders. 

• Supporting and executing the 10x assurance programme. 

• Keeping up to date on the latest assurance trends and emerging risks for the IT assurance/banking industry. 

• Working with the rest of the Chief Risk & Resilience Office to further 10x’s risk and control maturity including control testing activities. 

Ideally you will have... 

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience, ideally in IT/Computer Science 
• Proven third-party risk management experience 
• A deep understanding of best practices in software development
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication and influencing skills 
• Effective assimilation and analysis of information 
• Strong attention to detail
• Ability to work independently and as a strong team-player
• Strong organisational, problem solving and time management skills  
• Strong Integrity and professional ethics 
• Passion for promoting a strong, healthy risk culture

If you also have experience of the following, we’d love to hear from you...

• Experience in a fast moving, dynamic, digital, entrepreneurial businesses
• Ability to operate effectively in an agile organisation
• Knowledge of financial services regulatory requirements (PRA, EBA, FCA etc.) 
• Expertise in industry standards, like SOC2, ISO27001, COBIT, and ITIL
• Experience in IT control testing 
• Coding skills

 

However...

A desire to get stuck in is more important than ticking every box on our checklist. So, if you’re interested in what we’re building and excited by our mission, get in touch anyway!

At 10x Banking, we put our people first – we believe in empowering you to get the job done!

• 25 days of holiday in addition to Bank/Public Holidays (+ 1 day off on your birthday!) 
• 4 wellbeing days (1 additional paid day off per quarter, aimed at supporting you to maintain your personal wellbeing)
• Remote enabled working with office attendance agreed with your line manager
• Regular social gatherings and affinity groups
• Work from anywhere outside your typical working location – up to 4 weeks a year!
 
• Career progression and learning pathways
• 1 paid volunteering day a year
• Enhanced parental policies, including time off for fertility treatment 
• Options pool
• Private health insurance, with the option to add your family
• Pension scheme
• Public/Bank holiday swaps

• Enhanced company sick pay 
• Life Assurance 
• Income Protection 
• Subscription to Headspace wellbeing app 
• Flexible benefits via salary sacrifice
  
  

More about 10x

We are driven by the belief that whatever we do as a business has to be done in the right way. Our three core values of: Transformation, Integrity and Impact support this. 

Discover what life is like at 10x over on Instagram and find out what the company is up to on LinkedIn.

Our commitment to our people, community and planet has earned 10x a B Corp Certification, in recognition of using business as a ‘force for good.

10x Ways of Working

We recognise that a better work/life balance can improve people’s motivation, performance and overall wellbeing. The Covid-19 pandemic changed a lot of things about the way we work, including the enablement of colleagues working from various locations and delivering high performance through the effective use of remote working technology.

10x is a fully ‘remote enabled’ organisation and supports agile working. This role has a minimum office attendance requirement of approx. 1 day every other week, in agreement with your line manager.

As all employees are employed on London-based contracts, commuting costs to the office are covered by employees and not by 10x.

Equal opportunities for all

At 10x we are passionate about our people and are committed to fostering a more diverse and inclusive culture. We are building a community where every 10xer can bring their authentic self to work and feel empowered to reach their full potential. Our many employee networks help amplify this vision.  

Alongside assessing technical capabilities to do the role, our assessment process will identify what you can uniquely bring to our 10x teams, and the potential you have to thrive here. Common to every role that 10xers perform, are 3 core competencies that we look for in our future 10xers – Business Impact, Change Driver & Delivery Excellence.

We are committed to ensuring all job applicants are treated equally and fairly and encourage applicants of all ethnicities, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, age, neurodiversity or disability status. 

Accommodations

We recognize not everyone is the same. In fact, we embrace difference. If you require any form of accommodation during the interview process, please tell us so we can make arrangements to support. Any information that you provide will be recorded and maintained confidentially.

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