Change Risk Lead
Job ID: 010347
Location: Leeds, UK, LS1 8EQ
Job type: Permanent - Full Time
Salary: Level 5 - Senior Associate
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Help shape how change risk is understood, managed and controlled within Yorkshire Building Society. This is a high-impact role combining portfolio risk leadership, assurance activity and hands-on engagement with delivery teams, offering strong visibility across senior governance forums and executive stakeholders. You’ll be at the heart of change delivery, ensuring risks are identified early, managed effectively and translated into clear, decision-useful insight.
About the role
The Change Risk Lead is accountable for embedding the enterprise change risk management framework across the portfolio, ensuring change-related risks, controls and operational impacts are consistently identified, managed and escalated in line with governance and risk appetite expectations.
- Lead the adoption and application of the enterprise change risk management framework across portfolios and projects, ensuring consistent standards, effective risk management practices and high-quality risk information across the change lifecycle.
- Own the portfolio view of change delivery risk, coordinating portfolio-level risks, mitigations and control actions while providing clear, aggregated risk reporting and insight to senior stakeholders and governance forums.
- Partner with Delivery, Governance, Risk and Audit teams to drive assurance activity, RCSA delivery, control readiness and continuous improvement in change risk management maturity across the organisation.
About you
You are an experienced change risk professional with the ability to combine practical delivery understanding with robust risk management expertise, operating confidently across both delivery and risk communities within a regulated environment.
- Significant experience managing change delivery risk across complex portfolios, including ownership of portfolio-level risk views, risk frameworks and governance reporting that support executive decision-making.
- Strong technical capability across enterprise risk management, assurance, control design and risk reporting, with the ability to translate complex risks, trends and interdependencies into clear and actionable insight.
- Proven ability to influence and challenge delivery teams, business leaders, risk functions and audit stakeholders, driving stronger risk management practices and continuous improvement within a regulated financial services environment.
About Our Benefits
Everyone’s different. That’s why we offer a wide range of benefits and rewards that we think you’ll love – whatever’s important to you, and whatever stage of life you’re at. Such as…
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Our pension scheme (where you can get up to 11% from us)
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On target bonus of 7% (with the opportunity to earn up to a maximum 15%)
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Access to brilliant health benefits
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Life assurance at 6 times your salary
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25 days’ holiday (and the option to buy more)
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Cycle to work or an interest-free loan for an annual ticket
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Wellbeing resources and tools
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Retail and Leisure discounts
Learning & Development
Everyone can build a career path they love here. And that’s because we offer a wide range of programmes, opportunities and more to help you learn, grow, and develop – and reach your full potential.
These include...
- Personal Growth Toolkits - a range of materials that help you discover your strengths, identify your goals, and your next steps.
- Secondment and Stretch opportunities – helping you gain experience in different areas of our business and new ways of working.
- Learning Champion Network – opportunities to work outside of your immediate area and build new skills.
- Apprenticeships and Professional Qualifications – a range of brilliant apprenticeships and programmes available to everyone.
- REACH Diverse Leadership Programme – helping our Black, Asian and Ethnically Diverse leaders progress into senior leadership roles.
Our Colleague Networks & Groups
Our Vision is to be a leading organisation that embraces diversity, champions equity, and creates an inclusive environment where all individuals regardless of their background or identity feel valued, empowered and supported.
Our Colleague Networks and Groups are designed to amplify the voices of diverse groups and provide a structured route to effect real change. They provide a safe space and use colleague feedback to support the progression of our DEI Strategy. Our eight networks and groups are:
Community and Charity
Ever since we started back in 1864, we’ve had a clear purpose – to do some good in our communities through helping people keep their savings safe. And helping everyone have a place to call home. Today, that purpose is still a huge part of who we are. And every one of our colleagues helps that happen.
We’re committed to volunteering our time, resources, skills and knowledge – more than 50% of colleagues contribute to thousands of volunteer hours every year. And our Charitable Foundation has now donated over £9 million to charities and good causes across the country.
Hear from some of our people about what working at Yorkshire Building Society is like, and what it means for them…
Our ways of working
We know there’s no single right way of working that fits everyone. That’s why we’re not trying to find one. Instead, we’re doing everything we can to make sure that when we’re working flexibly, together and apart, we’re working at our best. And help our colleagues get the most out of work, and take care of themselves, wherever they’re working.
Whether you’re in an office-based team or your team is spread across the country, you’ll have lots of chances to get together with your colleagues for those Moments that Matter – which are all about building wonderful relationships and strong bonds with your colleagues.
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