VP, Business Risk & Control Manager – Banking and GTB | SCIB

Company: Grupo Santander
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Location: London
Job Description:

Overview

In this role you will coordinate supervision and control arrangements to support Banking and Global Transaction Banking, providing independent first-line challenge to risk owners and overseeing control frameworks. You’ll integrate risk information across functions, identify emerging issues, and drive remediation. You’ll support RC/RA processes, maintain control inventories, and promote a control-by-design approach in change initiatives. You’ll contribute to automation and digitalisation of risk-management activities while working with cross-functional teams in London.

Pay / Benefits

  • Discretionary performance-related annual bonus
  • Pension contributions (employer contribution)
  • Company funded private medical insurance
  • Holiday entitlement (30 days, increasing with service)
  • Share plans
  • Flexible benefits

Responsibilities

  • Lead supervision arrangements and escalation processes for Banking and GTB risk controls
  • Maintain an integrated view of risk and control across functions (Business, Operations, Tech, Risk, Compliance, Internal Audit)
  • Provide constructive challenge to owners on risk identification, assessment, and escalation
  • Oversee development and maintenance of control frameworks
  • Support annual Risk and Control Self-Assessments across different risk domains
  • Maintain oversight of risk/control inventories with current ownership and remediation
  • Promote control-by-design in product development and process changes
  • Manage audit findings, compliance actions, risk events, and remediation plans with root-cause analysis
  • Support new product initiatives and material changes affecting Banking and GTB
  • Contribute to automation, digitalisation, and data quality improvements in risk-management and control monitoring

Key requirements

  • Extensive Banking/Global Transactional Banking experience in a regulated wholesale financial services context
  • Strong understanding of operational risk management framework and practical application
  • Experience leading small change programmes to time and budget
  • Proficiency in the Microsoft Office Suite
  • Relationship building, collaboration and influencing skills at all levels
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
  • Proactive, solutions-focused with ability to balance competing priorities
  • Educated to Degree level, or equivalent experience in Banking and Financial Markets
  • Relationship building
  • Collaboration
  • Influencing abilities
  • Operational risk management framework
  • Risk and Control Self-Assessments
  • Automation/digitalisation of risk-management and control activities

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Posted: October 21st, 2026