Risk and Control Lead

Risk and Control Lead

• Contract duration: 6 months
• Location: Hybrid- Minimum one day per week in Central London
• Pay range: £700.00- £800.00 per day/ Inside IR35
• Start date: ASAP

Role Summary

The Risk and Control Lead is responsible for helping the organisation build and maintain an effective, proactive risk and control environment. Acting as a trusted adviser, the role works across operational, commercial and technology functions to identify and assess risks, evaluate controls, provide constructive challenge and deliver clear insight to senior leaders and governance forums.

The role also contributes to assurance reviews, incident investigations and root cause analysis, ensuring findings lead to practical and measurable improvements. It supports consistent risk frameworks, reliable reporting and evidence-based decision-making, while developing strong relationships across the business.

Responsibilities and Objectives

• Embed a proactive risk and control culture across assigned business areas, ensuring key risks and controls are clearly identified, assessed, documented and regularly reviewed.
• Facilitate risk workshops and provide objective, proportionate challenge to business owners on risk exposure, control design and control effectiveness.
• Create and maintain practical risk and control registers, with clear alignment between enterprise, intermediate and local risks.
• Ensure risk and control assessments are evidence-based and supported by appropriate key risk and performance indicators.
• Lead and deliver assurance reviews, incident investigations and root cause analyses, agreeing and tracking improvement actions through to completion.
• Produce accurate, timely and insightful reporting for senior leadership and governance forums, escalating matters where agreed risk appetite or tolerance is exceeded.
• Support the development and delivery of an integrated assurance plan and maintain a coherent assurance risk and control universe.
• Improve risk methodologies, templates, reporting processes and governance tools to increase consistency, efficiency and user experience.
• Build trusted relationships across the organisation and act as a recognised point of expertise for risk and control matters.
• Lead relevant projects from development to deployment, maintaining effective governance and quality standards.
• Significant, demonstrable experience in risk and control management, including risk frameworks, governance, risk appetite, policies, processes, management information and reporting.
• Practical experience reviewing risks and controls across operational, commercial and technology environments.
• Experience creating risk and control registers, embedding frameworks and implementing KPIs, KRIs or risk-management tools.
• Experience in an engineering industry or engineering-led organisation would be helpful.
• Strong analytical capability, with the judgement to interpret evidence, identify root causes and recommend pragmatic solutions.
• Confidence and credibility to influence senior stakeholders, facilitate workshops and provide constructive challenge.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex issues clearly and support sound decision-making.
• Strong relationship-building and project-delivery skills, with a collaborative and commercially aware approach.
• A degree or equivalent professional experience is desirable; a relevant qualification such as ACA, CIMA, IIA, CII or equivalent would be beneficial but is not essential.

Skills/experience required:

• Significant, demonstrable experience in risk and control management, including risk frameworks, governance, risk appetite, policies, processes, management information and reporting.
• Practical experience reviewing risks and controls across operational, commercial and technology environments.
• Experience creating risk and control registers, embedding frameworks and implementing KPIs, KRIs or risk-management tools.
• Experience in an engineering industry or engineering-led organisation would be helpful.
• Strong analytical capability, with the judgement to interpret evidence, identify root causes and recommend pragmatic solutions.
• Confidence and credibility to influence senior stakeholders, facilitate workshops and provide constructive challenge.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex issues clearly and support sound decision-making.
• Strong relationship-building and project-delivery skills, with a collaborative and commercially aware approach.
• A degree or equivalent professional experience is desirable; a relevant qualification such as ACA, CIMA, IIA, CII or equivalent would be beneficial but is not essential.