Job Ref: 215657059

Date: 2022-01-26 10:08:49

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About the role

This is an established role in a high performing professional team where you will have the opportunity to shape how you work and what you deliver. You will be responsible for Paradigm’s Risk Assurance function: delivering risk management, insurance and managing the internal audit programme. The role is supported by a Risk Assurance Officer and reports to the Director of Legal & Assurance, with key relationships with executive and non-executive senior management.

(F/T 37 hrs Mon-Fri)

Where could this role take you?

This is an opportunity to work with the senior leaders and decision makers of a leading social housing provider; you’ll be part of the conversation into how to manage and best exploit the challenges and opportunities faced by our growing business. You will gain unparalleled insight into a successful social housing provider, equipping you with further opportunities to develop this important step in your career in a supportive and encouraging environment.

About you

We are looking for someone with great analytical, organisational, and presentational skills. A person who can survey the landscape and identify the opportunities and risks. Working with senior management via a mixture of office, remote and homeworking, you will be a confident communicator and a perceptive listener, who is able to translate the complex into concise and accurate output. The successful candidate will likely have experience in either risk management, internal audit and/or insurance. Your experience may have been gained within housing or another regulated sector, but this is not essential. Our ideal candidate will possess the right mix of experience and qualifications – professional qualification such as a recognised risk management qualification or other professional qualification (eg Solicitor, Accountant, Company Secretary, Internal Auditor) with  significant post qualification experience in risk management, or equivalent job-related knowledge and experience.

This a great opportunity to join a high performing and specialist team at a time when you can have a real and personal impact on the future success of our business, you can continue to grow and develop yourself, building an interesting and rewarding career with a growing business with a great social purpose.

About us

We are a Best Companies 1 STAR accredited organisation in recognition of our high employee engagement and offer a welcoming and friendly environment. We are clearly focussed on the delivery of our five-year corporate plan with ambitious and challenging objectives including improving our environment and sustainability targets to deliver quality homes to people who need them. We’re proud to offer great benefits and have a committed approach to employee wellbeing. We offer an attractive range of benefits such as Health Cash Plan, Bonus potential, a competitive Pension and 25 days holiday on starting in addition to 3 days closure at Christmas, paid Volunteer days, family friendly policies, car leasing scheme (subject to conditions), free parking and electric charging points at our modern office with newly created collaborative workspaces.

We support flexible ways of working and welcome applications from all sections of the communities we work in.

Further information

As part of our application process, we ask for a covering statement and CV so we can assess your application against our essential and desired criteria as set out in the job description and person specification. Please include in your covering statement how you meet the criteria so we can see how well you match our requirements and give your application the consideration it deserves.

Thank you for your interest in Paradigm Housing Group thus far.

Shortlisting will be conducted in line with the essential and desirable criteria set out in the person specification. We reserve the right to close this role earlier than the published date should a suitable candidate be identified.

The Company

We are Paradigm Housing Group. 

We manage more than 15,000 homes across the South East.

We know that house prices in the areas where we work are high, both to buy and rent. We want to help more people have a safe and sustainable home that they can afford.

As a charity, the money we make goes into building new homes and providing an excellent service for residents

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