Transformation Risk Manager - Fixed Term Contract
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Occupation Type
Business and financial project management professionals
Occupation Code Skill LevelHigher Skilled
Sponsorship Salary Threshold
£56,500
(£28.97 per hour)
Occupation rate applies
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Description
About Us
Quanta Group is a next-generation financial services Group, responsible for assets under advice of around £17bn and nearly 75,000 clients across platform, DFM and advice.
Quanta Group provides a full wealth management service through three core businesses - an investment platform, financial planning and advice business, and discretionary fund manager.
Each Business Operates Independently Of Each Other Yet Gives Financial Planners The Flexibility To Deliver Advice Using Any Combination Of Our Products, Investments, And Services
About The Role
Quanta Group is a next-generation financial services Group, responsible for assets under advice of around £17bn and nearly 75,000 clients across platform, DFM and advice.
Quanta Group provides a full wealth management service through three core businesses - an investment platform, financial planning and advice business, and discretionary fund manager.
Each Business Operates Independently Of Each Other Yet Gives Financial Planners The Flexibility To Deliver Advice Using Any Combination Of Our Products, Investments, And Services
- Wealthtime – an award-winning investment platform that helps advisers deliver the best outcomes for their clients, bringing together smart technology and expert support.
- Copia Capital Management – a leading discretionary fund manager that works exclusively with advisers to provide a range of managed portfolio services.
- Craven Street Wealth – an award-winning independent Chartered financial planning and wealth management firm with offices in London and across the south of England.
About The Role
Provide proactive, independent risk expertise across strategic change initiatives to ensure transformation outcomes are delivered safely and sustainably. This role embeds robust risk practices into delivery lifecycles, strengthens risk culture, and enables informed decision making through high quality assurance, challenge, and insight.
The role spans two major initiatives: the strategic transformation of our core Platform and the execution of a large-scale platform migration. Both programmes are well underway and require focused risk oversight to ensure successful delivery and benefits realisation.
This role will be on a fixed term contract basis until the end of 2026.
Key Responsibilities
Risk Strategy & Planning
The role spans two major initiatives: the strategic transformation of our core Platform and the execution of a large-scale platform migration. Both programmes are well underway and require focused risk oversight to ensure successful delivery and benefits realisation.
This role will be on a fixed term contract basis until the end of 2026.
Key Responsibilities
Risk Strategy & Planning
- Translate enterprise risk appetite into practical guardrails for transformation initiatives.
- Partner with Transformation Teams to embed risk criteria into stage gates and prioritisation decisions.
- Challenge and oversight of control standards for change (e.g., assurance, testing governance, go/no go readiness).
- Run structured assessments (e.g., risk heatmaps, dependency and critical path risk, third party risk).
- Ensure material risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies (RAID) are captured, owned, and actioned.
- Perform independent reviews at key milestones (business case, design, test, implementation, post implementation).
- Challenge plans, estimates, and readiness (e.g., resourcing, data migration, cutover plans).
- Validate control design/effectiveness; escalate gaps and make practical recommendations.
- Produce clear, concise risk reporting for senior governance.
- Ensure accurate aggregation of risk exposure and alignment to appetite and tolerances.
- Build trusted relationships with Transformation Leads, PMO, Technology, Operations, Finance, Compliance, and HR.
- Coach delivery teams to improve risk mindset, transparency, and quality of RAID management.
- Promote a speak up culture and constructive challenge to avoid optimism bias and delivery drift.
About You
Essential
Specialist Skills, Qualifications and Experience:
Essential
Specialist Skills, Qualifications and Experience:
- Significant experience in risk, assurance, or change delivery within complex, regulated environments.
- Experience in the risk oversight of major transformation, operating model changes, regulatory programmes, data/AI initiatives, and vendor-led delivery.
- Risk Management: Strong grasp of enterprise risk frameworks, appetite, control design, and assurance.
- Change & Delivery: Experience of assuring project/change delivery with an understanding of PMO practices, and stage gates.
- Technical Acumen: Understanding of architecture, data migration, testing (functional/non-functional), cyber/privacy, and third party risk.
- Analytical & Insight: Ability to synthesise complex information into concise, actionable narratives.
- Communication: Executive level reporting, crisp escalation, and persuasive challenge.
- Influence & Stakeholder Management: Able to coach and constructively challenge senior leaders and suppliers.
- Judgement: Commercially pragmatic, risk aware decision support aligned to appetite and strategy.
- Risk: Formal risk qualification.
- Controls/Assurance: ISO 27001 awareness.
- Data/Privacy: GDPR and data protection knowledge.
- Regulatory Awareness: Familiarity with UK/EU regulatory expectations for change, operational resilience, outsourcing/third party risk.
- Competitive salary.
- Hybrid Working (split between home and office).
- Discretionary bonus each year.
- 34 days holiday per calendar year including bank holidays, with the option to purchase or sell up to 5 additional days per year.
- Life event day: A paid day off for a life event such as a birthday, moving house, or wedding.
- Supported and encouraged professional development.
- Private Medical scheme (single cover that can be increased to full family).
- Income protection scheme.
- Life assurance scheme.
- Group contributory pension scheme.
- Interest free season ticket loans for travel costs.
- Wealthtime Foundation Day in support of charitable activities.