Senior Risk and Assurance Manager

Job summary

If you’re interested in making a difference to people’s lives, the Treasury can offer you an exciting opportunity to influence decision making that affects the whole of the UK. Working at the heart of government, we collaborate across government to promote responsible public spending and drive strong and sustainable economic growth.

Our work ranges from protecting customers through the regulation of the financial sector, helping to reduce carbon emissions and creating a greener economy, to promoting British trade around the world and supporting people across the country on jobs, growth and more.

We are part of the Darlington Economic Campus, a pioneering new cross-government hub which brings people together to play an active role in the most important issues of the day whilst working closer to the communities we serve. The campus provides the opportunity for people from all over the UK to help shape the future of the country, and our flexible working practices ensure you can collaborate effectively with our partners. It’s central government, made more accessible to you!

Job description

About the Group

Corporate Centre

The Corporate Centre Group provides the strong foundations that enable Treasury Group to meet its goals and obligations. As experts in our field, we support, protect and enhance Treasury Group at all levels, delivering corporate services guided by Treasury values to our customers in HM Treasury, our ALBs, central government and the public. We are a diverse group, both in terms of our professions and in our ways of working. Our colleagues are based across 3 sites in London, Darlington and Norwich.

The Corporate Centre Group consists of a range of teams including:

• Finance
• Commercial
• Exchequer Funds and Accounts
• People and Capability which covers HR and Learning and Development functions
• Treasury Business Solutions including Technology, Estates, Security and Information Management
• Correspondence and Information Rights

About the Team

The Treasury’s Risk, Assurance and Counter Fraud team plays a central and strategic role within the wider Finance Team in the Corporate Centre Group. We lead on the identification, assessment and mitigation of key organisational risks, ensuring robust assurance frameworks are in place to support decision making and safeguard public funds. The team is responsible for designing and delivering effective counter fraud measures, promoting a culture of vigilance and accountability across the department.

Working at the heart of Finance, collectively we provide expert financial advice and accurate information for parliamentary control and public accountability, supporting both departmental priorities and the wider Government Finance Function, a network of over 10,000 finance professionals across the civil service.

Finance is made up of approximately 50 staff based across London, Norwich and Darlington sites.

About the Job

This role is in the Risk, Assurance and Counter Fraud team in the Finance Function and is central to the department steering and delivering against a broad span of key areas.

As Senior Risk and Assurance Manager, you’ll play a pivotal role in crafting the Treasury’s approach to risk and assurance. Join a high-performing, forward-thinking team where your expertise will guide strategic improvements, promote established standards, and deliver innovative solutions in a fast-paced, complex environment. You’ll work closely with senior leaders, the Audit and Risk Committee, and external partners like the Government Internal Audit Agency and National Audit Office. This will help you build relationships that broaden your influence across the department and beyond.

The ideal candidate would have an existing understanding and experience of risk management and/or assurance approaches and guidelines.

The individual will adopt a programme of continuous improvement, concentrating on applying effective methods to enhance efficiency and innovation in risk management, assurance and counter fraud.

Key Accountabilities:

• Develop and implement an improvement strategy that drives standard methodology, efficiency and innovation across risk and assurance.
• Be a visible leader in the team, inspiring colleagues and encouraging collaboration.
• Support the Head of Risk, Assurance and Counter Fraud in ensuring strong strategic control of organisational risk management and assurance in the department.
• Provide department stakeholders with expert support and challenge to ensure risk and assurance processes and procedures at HM Treasury and Arm’s Length Bodies are aligned to best practice and relevant guidance (such as the Orange Book) and deliver value.
• Develop and build relationships with key stakeholders across all levels of management in the department and externally including the Audit and Risk Committee and with the Government Internal Audit Agency and National Audit Office.
• Shape and deliver key risk and assurance reports for committees and boards. Provide insights that inform critical decisions and add value.
• Support priority objectives of the team including responding as required to Freedom of Information requests, parliamentary questions, correspondence requests and Cabinet Office commissions.
• Representing HMT at relevant forums, meetings, working groups and in wider functional communities such as the Government Risk Profession.

If you would like to speak to the hiring manager informally prior to the closing date for applications to find out more about the job, please contact victoria.rinck@hmtreasury.gov.uk

Person specification

About Your Application

We are looking for the below skills, experience and behaviours and we will ask you to demonstrate these in your application form. Please review the Candidate FAQ document that is attached to the advert for guidance on how to complete your application form.

1. Experience of developing and implementing risk management and/or assurance frameworks and processes.
2. Ability to communicate with multiple external and internal stakeholders in a clear, honest and enthusiastic way in order to build trust and collaboratively agree solutions. Ability to explain complex issues in a way that is easy to understand. (Communicating and influencing).
3. Ability to develop and deliver change and improvement strategies to risk and assurance. (Changing and Improving).
4. Constructively challenge and motivate teams to secure positive outcomes whilst also being willing to compromise if beneficial to progress (Working Together).

The lead criterion is: Experience

If we receive large volumes of applications, we will conduct an initial sift on the lead criterion only.

Required Qualifications:

EitherConsultative Committee of Accounting Bodies (CCAB) qualified orIRM qualification in enterprise risk management (or equivalent).

Qualifications

Either Consultative Committee of Accounting Bodies (CCAB) qualified or IRM qualification in enterprise risk management (or equivalent).

Behaviours

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

• Communicating and Influencing
• Changing and Improving
• Working Together
• Seeing the Big Picture

We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form:

• Communicating and Influencing
• Changing and Improving
• Working Together

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £57,670, HM Treasury contributes £16,706 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

• 25 days’ annual leave (rising to 30 after 5 years), plus 8 public holidays and the King's birthday (unless you have a legacy arrangement as an existing Civil Servant)
• Flexible working patterns (part-time, job-share, condensed hours)
• Generous parental and adoption leave package.
• A Civil Service Pension which provides an attractive pension, benefits for dependants and average employer contributions of 28%
• Onsite restaurant and coffee bar. The London office also offers a gym, showers and prayer room
• Access to a cycle-to-work salary sacrifice scheme, season ticket advances and payroll giving
• Access to a retail discounts and cashback site
• A Rental Deposit Advance Scheme to help meet the total costs of deposits for privately rented homes
• A range of active staff networks, based around interests and diversity

Flexible Working Arrangements

HM Treasury views flexible working as essential in enabling us to recruit and retain talented people, ensuring that they can enjoy a long-lasting career with us. All employees have the right to apply for flexible working and there are a range of options available including; part-time, compressed hours and job sharing. Additionally, we operate flexitime systems, allowing employees the flexibility to adjust their working patterns throughout the week which is subject to operational needs and line management approval.

At HM Treasury we have an incredibly broad remit; our work touches every citizen of the country. So, it’s important our employees come from the widest possible range of backgrounds, bringing us the widest possible range of perspectives and ways of thinking. We are committed to ensuring that all staff can realise their potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance.

HM Treasury operates an office based working approach across all Treasury sites - Darlington, London, and Norwich, and along with the rest of the Civil Service, has an expectation of a minimum of 60% attendance in the office, along with working remotely. This blended working approach allows you to work collaboratively, meet stakeholders face to face, support others and promotes a healthy work life balance (please be aware that this role can only be worked in the UK and not overseas). Some roles will not be suitable for Hybrid Working. Similarly, Hybrid Working will not suit everyone’s circumstances. Arrangements will be discussed and agreed with the successful candidate(s) and subject to regular review. All our offices have been recently modernised and designed to collaborate and connect with colleagues as well as desk and quiet space to allow a range of ways to work.

The office working expectation is linked to the location of the role. If you apply to a post in a single location, then you will not be able to meet this expectation at any of our other sites or move your role to another location.

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, Strengths and Experience.

If you have applied for the Voluntary Exit Scheme (VES) and are also applying for this role, please contact the Workforce Planning team to discuss your application

Recruitment Timeline

• Closing date: 15th January 2026
• Shortlisting: week commencing 19th January 2026
• Interviews: week commencing 2nd February 2026 and week commencing 9th February 2026

This timeline is indicative and may be subject to change. We will inform you if there is a substantial change to the recruitment timeline.

If your contact details change at any time during the selection process, please ensure you update your Civil Service Jobs Profile.

Please note that only applications submitted through Civil Service Jobs will be accepted.

Reserve Lists

You will be placed on a reserve list if your application is successful, but we cannot offer you a post immediately. Where more than one location has been advertised, candidates will be approached for roles in merit order according to the first preferred location stated on your application form.

Please note that a place on the reserve list does not guarantee an offer. We would still encourage you to apply for other HM Treasury opportunities that you are interested in. If you are offered a role in your first preferred location and you decline the offer or you are unable to take up the post within a reasonable timeframe, you will be removed from the reserve list, other than in exceptional circumstances.

Those on the reserve list may also be approached for similar roles at a lower grade. If you are offered a role at a lower grade and choose to decline, you can remain on the reserve list.

Eligibility Statement

A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role in the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5 year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government. Checks will be performed as part of pre-employment checks in line with this. Please refer to the Candidate FAQ document attached to the advert for more information.

Everyone working with government assets must complete Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) checks. Additionally, individuals appointed to the Treasury group will be subject to National Security Vetting. The level of security vetting required for this role is Security Check (SC)

To allow for meaningful checks to be carried out, applicants will need to have lived in the UK for at least 3 out of the past 5 years. In exceptional circumstances, for example if you have been working abroad on a government posting, a lack of residency would not be a bar to security clearance however the Department will need to consider eligibility on a case-by-case basis once the advert closing date has passed.

Please read the Vetting Charter for information on what to expect during the vetting process and what will be expected from you. Many areas of your life may be explored during your vetting journey, and it is important that every individual, regardless of their background and experiences, should feel comfortable going through this personal process, whilst having confidence that it is fair, proportionate, and inclusive.

These short videos address common concerns and preconceptions which applicants may have about national security vetting. If you have questions relating to security clearances, please contact HMTSecurityVetting@hmtreasury.gov.uk

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).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

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

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).

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Name : Victoria Rinck
• Email : victoria.rinck@hmtreasury.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : hrrecruitment@hmtreasury.gov.uk

Further information

Complaints Process: Our recruitment process is underpinned by the principle of appointment based on fair and open competition and appointment on merit, as outlined in the Civil Service Commissioners’ Recruitment Principles. If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with these principles and you wish to make a complaint, you should in the first instance contact HMT by email at: hrrecruitment@hmtreasury.gov.uk. If you are not satisfied with the response you receive, you can contact the Civil Service Commission, which regulates all Civil Service recruitment.

Attachments

Senior Risk and Assurance Manager G7 Role Profile - draft Opens in new window (pdf, 150kB)Candidate FAQ's - CV & PS - 2025 Opens in new window (pdf, 197kB)HM Treasury Guidance on Pay 2024 October 2024 (2) Opens in new window (pdf, 74kB)