Mortgage Services Risk Director
- Full-time
- Risk & Regulatory Compliance
- Homebased
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Legal & General (L&G) is a leading UK financial services group and major global investor.
We’ve been safeguarding people’s financial futures since 1836, and strive to build a better society, while improving the lives of our customers and creating value for shareholders.
We are one of the world’s largest asset managers and provide powerful asset origination capabilities. Together, these underpin our retirement and protection solutions: we are an international player in pension risk transfer, in UK and US life insurance, and in UK workplace pensions and retirement income.
L&G Retail supports the savings, protection and retirement needs of around 14 million people, through our portfolio of retail and workplace businesses.
Our Retail division helps people enjoy a more colourful retirement, both directly and through their employers, including Lifetime Mortgages, Retirement Interest Only Mortgages and financial advice on our range of lending products.
We are the UK’s number one individual life insurer, and also provide Group Protection products for employers – all helping people to plan for the unexpected. We support home buying through our Mortgage Club – the UK’s largest – and our award-winning Surveying Services team. And our fintech team finds and supports socially useful start-ups and scale-ups working in the workplace, home, insurance and wealth areas.
Joining us means helping create brighter financial futures for all our customers.
We’re recruiting for a Risk Director to join us in our Mortgage Services business . We’re offering a competitive base salary and 12% car allowance.
We’re looking for a strategic and forward-thinking Risk Director to lead our technical, risk, audit, and professional standards functions. This is a high-impact leadership role, ideal for someone who thrives in a dynamic environment and is passionate about delivering excellence in risk management and customer outcomes.
What you'll be doing:
- Leading the development and delivery of LGMS’s risk, audit and technical strategy
- Managing high-level client and industry relationships, including board-level stakeholders
- Overseeing the Professional Indemnity Insurance (PII) policy, claims and complaints handling
- Driving quality assurance and audit processes to meet regulatory and customer standards
- Supporting the growth and profitability of the valuation and surveying business
- Developing and embedding a positive risk culture across the organisation
- Managing and mentoring a high-performing team across technical and risk functions
- Ensuring compliance with RICS, lender, and internal governance frameworks
Who we're looking for:
- You must be RICS qualified with residential mortgage market experience
- Proven leadership in risk, audit, or technical operations within financial services
- Strong understanding of valuation risk, PII, and regulatory frameworks
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- Strategic thinker with a track record of delivering business transformation
- Experience managing teams and fostering inclusive, high-performance cultures
- Analytical mindset with the ability to interpret complex data and trends
- Commitment to customer outcomes, integrity, and continuous improvement
Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer:
- The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance -related bonus plan and valuable share schemes
- Generous pension contribution
- Life assurance
- Healthcare Plan (permanent employees only)
- At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2 years’ service. There’s also the option to buy and sell holiday
- Competitive family leave
- Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice (permanent employees only)
- There are the many discounts we offer – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online
- In 2023, some of our workspaces were redesigned. Our offices are great spaces to connect and collaborate and have your wellbeing at the heart
At L&G, we believe it's possible to generate positive returns today while helping to build a better future for all.
If you join us, you’ll be part of a welcoming, inclusive culture, with opportunities to collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds, views, and experiences. Guided by leaders with integrity who care about your future and wellbeing. Empowered through initiatives which support people to develop their careers and excel.
We care passionately about outcomes rather than attendance and are therefore open to discussing all kinds of flexible working options including part-time, term-time and job shares. Although some roles have limited flexibility due to customer demand, we accommodate requests when we can.
It doesn’t matter if you don’t meet every single criterion in this advert. Instead, think about what you excel at and what else you can bring in terms of strengths, potential and connection to our purpose.
Great news! We will let you know when a new job like this has been added!
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