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).#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.
Things you need to know
Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.To apply, you will need to enter your qualifications and career history into the CV section of the online application form and complete a Personal Statement by 11:55pm on Friday 16th October
The Personal Statement section (in up to 500 words) should be used to outline your skills and experience for the role and provide details of how you meet the following essential Experience criteria:
- Strong practical knowledge and experience of risk management, with the ability to apply risk management principles effectively and proportionately within a complex organisation.
The sift will take place shortly after the closing date.
In the event of high volume of applications, we will sift on the technical criteria, Hold a qualification in Risk Management (IRM) or equivalent experience in a risk management role.
If successful at Sift stage, the final stage will consist of a blended interview in which we will ask you to prepare a presentation, candidates will be informed of the subject of the presentation prior.
The blended interview will test the Essential experience and Behaviours listed in the Person Specification
Candidates may refer to notes within their interview, but they should be used as a prompt only.
You must ensure that any evidence submitted as part of your application, including your CV, personal statement, are truthful and factually accurate. Please note that plagiarism can include presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own.
Please review your application form before clicking ‘submit’ – once you have submitted, you will not be able to amend your application.
Ensure your application form is received by the closing date for receipt of applications – this is 11:55pm on the advertised date.
HMLR is accredited to the Disability Confident Scheme, which denotes organisations which have a positive attitude towards disabled people. Disabled applicants who meet the minimum essential criteria at the shortlisting stage are guaranteed an invitation to interview.
If you require the panel to consider a reasonable adjustment or there is anything else you would like the panel to take into consideration, you are asked to notify us of this at application stage where possible or during the process as soon as it becomes a requirement.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
Security
Successful candidates must undergo a basic (or equivalent) criminal record check.People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.Nationality requirements
This job is broadly open to the following groups:
- UK nationals
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
- individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
- Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
Working for the Civil Service
The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.
Diversity and Inclusion
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see theCivil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).Apply and further information
This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.Contact point for applicants
Job contact :
- Name : Mark Sacks
- Email : mark.sacks@landregistry.gov.uk
Recruitment team
Further information
If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance to the Recruitment Principles and you wish to make a complaint, please email hrresourcingteam2@landregistry.gov.uk in the first instance. If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from HM Land Registry then you may take your complaint to the Civil Service Commission: http://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/making-complaint/Attachments
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