SMCR & Personal Accountability Risk Manager

Lloyds Bank plc; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 73,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading UK bank seeks a SMCR & Personal Accountability Risk Manager to support compliance initiatives and help manage Conduct and Whistleblowing risks. This part-time role (0.6 – 0.69 FTE) offers hybrid working and emphasizes the need for strong communication skills, attention to detail, and experience in risk management or compliance. Located preferably in Bristol, with flexibility for Birmingham or Leeds. A competitive salary between £65,385 and £72,650 pro rata, along with significant benefits, makes this an excellent opportunity for risk professionals.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution up to 15%

Annual performance-related bonus

Discounted shopping benefits

30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays

Wellbeing initiatives

Qualifications

• Willingness to learn and complete regulatory processes with high accuracy.
• Ability to assimilate complex information for effective problem solving.
• Experience in risk management or compliance related fields.

Responsibilities

• Drive compliance with the Senior Managers’ Regime.
• Analyse Conduct & Compliance risks.
• Prepare documentation for monitoring Group’s Conduct exposure.

Skills

Good written communication skills

Attention to detail

Understanding of SMR and Colleague Conduct risks

Job description

**End Date**Monday 26 January 2026**Salary Range**£0 - £0**Flexible Working Options**Hybrid Working, Job Share, Reduced Hours**Job Description Summary**.**Job Description****JOB TITLE:** SMCR & Personal Accountability Risk Manager**Salary:** £65,385 - £72,650 pro rata**LOCATION(S):** Bristol (preferred), Birmingham, Leeds**HOURS:** Part time (0.6 – 0.69 FTE) to include Thursday, Friday & Monday.**WORKING PATTERN:** Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending a minimum of 40% of our time at one of our Risk Hubs.**About this opportunity**We’re on an exciting journey and there couldn’t be a better time to join us. We’re putting in place a fresh operating model for non-financial risk management across the Group, empowering our people to take end-to-end accountability for managing the risks that they face!This means we’re changing how we do risk management, creating a team of risk specialists, to provide support aligned to our risk and control owners to deliver great customer outcomes.We’re looking for a Manager to join our Senior Managers’ Regime (SMR), Colleague Conduct & Whistleblowing Risk Specialist team. You'll support the head of function in developing a Conduct & Compliance centre of excellence, to assist robust risk management in alignment with the Group’s Enterprise Risk Management Framework. You’ll provide insight and oversight on how the Group complies with requirements in Colleague Conduct and Whistleblowing. You’ll directly lead compliance initiatives for how we manage the Senior Managers Regime. You’ll contribute to the approach and implementation of compliance policies, appetite and control objectives to enable the delivery of customer, regulatory and business strategic outcomes.**This role is part time (0.6 – 0.69 FTE) and must include working days on Thursday, Friday and Monday.****As part of our risk specialist team you’ll:*** Drive and deliver day to day compliance with the Senior Managers’ Regime with a high standard of quality and completeness.* Analyse and assesses the Conduct & Compliance risk and control environment using a wide range of sources that supports the implementation of Colleague Conduct risk policies and appetite.* Provide specialist input on SMR, Colleague Conduct risk and Whistleblowing that helps Risk and Control owners to deliver against aligned customer, business and strategic outcomes.* Coordinate and prepare documentation, including collating and summarising data and information, to enable the ongoing monitoring and reporting of the Group’s Colleague Conduct exposure relative to risk appetite.* Identify and develop key risk, control and performance indicators to enable appropriate monitoring of appetite and policy.* Contribute to the delivery of a risk and control oversight plan to assess compliance to Colleague Conduct, Senior Managers’ & Certification regime, relevant laws, regulations, industry standards and established controls.**What you’ll need:*** Good written communication skills, showing attention to detail.* Willingness to learn and complete regulatory processes to a high standard of accuracy* Ability to understand and assimilate different sources of data and complex information to support with effective problem solving that leads to relevant conclusions and recommendations.* Good knowledge of relevant laws, regulation, industry standards in SMR and/or Colleague Conduct and/or Whistleblowing risks.* We're looking for a Risk professional with an understanding of Colleague Conduct Risk and Compliance with experience in the field or, alternatively, having gained expertise through experience in a related function.**And any experience of these would be really useful:*** Previous experience of managing Senior Manager Regime compliance / regulatory applications.* Building, interpreting and maintaining MI from different data sources* Completing monitoring / oversight or audit reviews**About working for us**Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We’re disability confident. So if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.**We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:*** A generous pension contribution of up to 15%* An annual performance-related bonus* Share schemes including free shares* Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping* 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top* A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies**If you’re excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We’d love to hear from you.****At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.****We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.****We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.**With 320 years under our belt, we're used to change, and today is no different. Join us and help drive this change, shaping the future of finance whilst working at pace to deliver for our customers.Here, you'll do the best work of your career. Your impact will be amplified by our scale as you learn and develop, gaining skills for the future.