Enterprise Risk Management - Senior Manager
Entain is looking for a Senior Manager, Enterprise Risk Management to join its growing, London-based team of accomplished professionals in its dynamic, global business. Reporting to the Director of Enterprise Risk Management, this is an exciting opportunity to add value, influence, and shape the roll-out of Entain's updated Risk Management framework. Additionally, the role will promote a culture of risk awareness throughout the organisation.
The Senior Manager will facilitate and drive management discussions, decisions, and strategies on risk at management and leadership meetings. They will ensure effective processes are in place to identify, manage, monitor, and report on risks to which the organisation might be exposed, in line with the Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) strategy and principles. The role involves raising awareness and articulating the benefits of ERM within Markets and Group Functions, and providing independent challenge on Market and Group Function risk registers. Furthermore, the Senior Manager will provide risk advice and support to individuals and teams, produce risk information for consideration by the Board, Audit & Risk Committee and Executive, and develop and deliver ERM training when required. The role also includes helping with the development and implementation of relevant IT and other systems to support risk capture, analysis, and reporting, and supporting the adoption and embedding of AI within ERM.
- Facilitating and driving management discussions, decisions and strategies on risk at management and leadership meetings.
- Ensuring effective processes are in place to identify, manage, monitor and report on risks to which the organisation might be exposed, in line with the Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) strategy and principles.
- Raising awareness and articulating the benefits of ERM within Markets and Group Functions.
- Providing independent challenge on Market and Group Function risk registers particularly, the validity of the identified risk, their severity and the relevance of the controls and actions documented.
- Providing risk advice and support to individuals and teams, including advice on the application of the ERM process where required, and share top-down risk communications.
- Produce risk information for consideration by the Board, Audit & Risk Committee and Executive through collation, aggregation, calibration, and analysis.
- Develop and deliver ERM training when required.
- Help with the development and implementation of relevant IT and other systems to support the capture, analysis and reporting of risks and control effectiveness.
- Support the adoption and embedding of AI within ERM.
- Strong technical ERM skills and experience in a large international organisation or consultancy (preferred).
- Experience in a non-Financial Services setting (preferred).
- Ability to clearly communicate risk management concepts to non-experts (required).
- Experience of designing and implementing most/all aspects of a good practice ERM framework (required).
- Experience conducting risk interviews and identifying key risks and internal controls (required).
- Experience developing key risk indicators suites (required).
- Practical articulation and operationalising risk appetite (required).
- Developing insightful risk reporting (required).
- Using numerous techniques to conduct risk analysis (required).
- Delivering impactful risk management training (required).
- Linking ERM to operational risk management activities (e.g. ESG, H&S etc) and other second line activities, such as resilience (required).
- Strong interpersonal communication skills with ability to build trust and rapport, influence, persuade and build strong relationships with a diverse range of senior stakeholders (required).
- Ability to work as part of a team, as well as proactively, with little management oversight (required).
- Generous group bonus scheme
- Hybrid-working (2+ days per week in the office)
- Private medical insurance
- Pension Scheme - matched to 6%
- Opportunity to buy and sell holiday
- Free subscription to wellbeing app Unmind
- Entain & Enhance days – 2 paid days off to focus on your professional or personal development
- Sharesave Scheme
- Paid Subscription to LinkedIn learning
Entain is one of the world's largest sports betting and gaming entertainment groups and a FTSE 100 company. Formed when GVC Holdings rebranded as Entain in December 2020, its brands trace their history back to the 1880s and include bwin, Coral, Foxy, Gala, Ladbrokes and partypoker. Through its joint venture with MGM Resorts International, it powers BetMGM in the United States with its proprietary technology. Headquartered in London, Entain employs over 30,000 people with offices across 19 countries.