Non-Executive Director - Risk and Risk Committee

The opportunity

A UK organisation is seeking a Non-Executive Director with a strong risk background to strengthen its board’s oversight of risk and, in time, to contribute to or chair its Risk Committee. As the risk environment grows more complex spanning financial, operational, regulatory, technological and reputational exposures boards increasingly value a director who can bring genuine depth in risk management and the independent judgement to challenge how well those risks are understood and controlled.

This is a governance appointment. The role is to provide oversight and constructive challenge of the organisation’s risk management framework and its most significant exposures — not to run the risk function, which remains the responsibility of management. The successful candidate will bring real risk expertise to the boardroom and contribute as a full member of the board across all its responsibilities.

What we’re looking for

• A senior career in risk management (for example Chief Risk Officer, Head of Risk, or equivalent senior risk leadership)
• Genuine expertise in enterprise risk, internal control and the governance of risk, ideally across more than one category of exposure
• The ability to operate at board level — oversight and challenge, not execution
• Independence, sound judgement and the confidence to challenge management constructively and hold a firm line where necessary
• Existing board or committee experience is welcome; we will also consider first-time non-executives of the right calibre with a genuine appetite for governance