Your role
At Lloyds Bank GmbH, we're at the forefront of financial innovation, and your role as a Risk Manager specialized in Change Risk Management is crucial. You advise on new product initiatives, projects, and change processes, ensuring they align with our robust Internal Control System and risk landscape. Your dedication to excellence shapes the future of our organization.
If you're passionate about making a meaningful impact in compliance and risk management, consider joining our dynamic team. Together, we can achieve great things and drive innovation in the financial industry.
A day in the life of a Risk Manager
Imagine stepping into the world of a Risk Manager at Lloyds Bank, where every day is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact. As the first rays of the morning sun peek through the windows, you find yourself at the heart of the NFR&EC department, ready to tackle the challenges ahead.
Your day begins with a meeting, where you represent your department in cross-functional projects and working groups. You’re the go-to expert, the central point of contact for Agile Transformation. With finesse, you interpret guidelines and regulatory requirements, guiding your team through the complex compliance landscapes. Your expertise is invaluable, making you an indispensable part of the journey.
Mid-morning, you dive into refining existing policies and process instructions, such as the 2nd Line Engagement. Your proactive approach ensures that our control procedures and risk management strategies not only meet but exceed regulatory and legal requirements. Integrity and efficiency are your guiding principles, and your efforts help maintain the smooth operation of our organization.
As the day progresses, you shift focus to governance requirements within the Change Management Lifecycle. Your keen oversight ensures that business units adhere to necessary guidelines, fostering a culture of accountability and excellence. You navigate through the intricacies of compliance with a steady hand, ensuring that everything is on track.
Lunchtime provides a brief respite, but your mind is always churning with new ideas. Your phone rings, and you’re the point of contact for employees, auditors, supervisors, and investigating authorities. Building and managing strong relationships comes naturally to you, and your efforts maintain our reputation for transparency and reliability.
The afternoon is dedicated to training sessions. You conduct and organize compliance-relevant training, empowering teams with the knowledge they need to excel in their roles. Your passion for compliance and risk management shines through, leaving a lasting impact on everyone you interact with.
As the day winds down, you develop pragmatic and risk-oriented solutions to strengthen our compliance structures within the 2nd line of defense. Your contributions are instrumental in fortifying our defenses and ensuring the long-term success of Lloyds Bank.
Every day as a Risk Manager at Lloyds Bank is a journey of growth, challenge, and immense satisfaction. You are a vital part of the team, shaping the future and ensuring that we remain at the cutting edge of financial innovation.
Which team will you be joining?
We are the Department Non-Financial Risk & Economic Crime (NFR&EC). We are a team forming part of the 2nd line of defense and we are responsible for both Amsterdam and Berlin. This is why also our team members take care of business stakeholders across the boarders as well. Our colleagues are from different countries, but all of them are either living in The Netherlands or in Germany.
Within the NFR&EC Department, you have the Financial Crime & Change Team. We are working in a very dynamic environment focusing on economic crime prevention and change risk management. With 12 colleagues in the team, we are looking for a person who will taking care on change risk management activities by supporting, ensuring, and advising colleagues from the agile transforming - building a bridge to requirements setting from 2nd Line point of view.
We are striving to ensure sustainable growth for the company. This means that we are tasked to ensure compliance with legal and regulatory requirements. At the same time, we want to enable the business with proactive and risk-based decisions on how to implement these requirements, to grow our company safely but also efficiently.
You recognize yourself in this profile
Overall, the team is responsible for monitoring and reporting risks and supports the Management Board as well as the business teams in their decision making. So, we are looking for a person who engages in frequent dialogue with Stakeholders, managing their expectations with the aim to understand the impact of change from a customer & 'front line' colleague perspective, ensures issues are addressed prior to implementation. If you want to take ownership and responsibility to navigate the topic around Change Risk Management, the FC&C Teams is more than happy to welcome you.
Some important skills & capabilities
- Completed university degree with a focus on law or economics (Master's degree or state examination)
- Understanding of project management
- Stakeholder management
- High level of comprehension
- Ability to present complex information in an understandable manner
- Strong self-motivation and teamwork skills
- Ability to work independently and in a self-driven manner
- Experience in oversight activities
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
Some highlights of our benefits for you!
- 13th month salary, either paid monthly or once a year in December
- 30 days PTO (or 240 hours) per year (based on fulltime employment)
- Non-contributory pension scheme
- Flexible working; you can schedule your work hours to meet your personal needs
Your recruitment process
Apply to our vacancies by sending your CV and motivation letter to stanley.waccary@lloydsbank.nl, or use the application form on our website. After receiving your application, we'll review it and share a reply as soon as possible.
After you have submitted your application, our recruiter Stanley Waccary will reach out to you to plan a short introductory chat via Teams.
Your first chat with us will take place either online or at our Amsterdam office. The goal of this chat is get to know each other, and see if there's a match with the team, the organisation and the open position.
We're excited to have you meet additional collagues. The chat will take place either online or at our Amsterdam office, during which we'll dive deeper into the requirements of the position and the team you'll be joining.
Congratulations! We're happy to have you as our newest addition to the team. Do you feel the same way? Then you'll receive our offer by email. For most roles, a screening is part of the process. This will take place after accepting the offer.
About Lloyds Bank
Lloyds Bank GmbH is part of Lloyds Banking Group, a financial institution with a large clientele in the UK and other parts of the world. Together with our office in Berlin, we form Lloyds Bank GmbH with its headquarters in Amsterdam and we have over 500 colleagues.
We aim to lead by example in the bold decisions we make as a business, from where and how we invest, to the products and services we offer, and of course the workplace we create. We will search for new ways to work with people, communities and businesses, to always evolve with their needs. And we will never stop innovating to make sustainable, ethical choices easy and rewarding.
At Lloyds Bank GmbH we play an important part in peoples’ lives, by the products we offer, and also how we operate. We finance your mortgage, keep your savings secure and also provide you with a personal loan if you need this. In Amsterdam we do this with an enthusiastic team of approximately 200 colleagues from different nationalities, and with an engagement score of 93%, colleagues find us a real ‘Great Place to Work’!
With our grand ambitions, we are looking for new colleagues who will bring fresh ideas to help us grow!
Are you ready to join our journey?
Have we made you curious, and are you ready to join the team? Please introduce yourself to us in the best way possible and send this to: stanley.waccary@lloydsbank.nl, or use the application form on our website. A screening is part of the process.
We hope to meet you soon!
Acquisition to this vacancy is not appreciated.