Technology Risk Director

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Company Description

Evelyn Partners is the UK's leading integrated wealth management and professional services group, with over 186 years of experience in helping generations of people and businesses to thrive. We offer an extensive range of financial and professional services to individuals, family trusts, professional intermediaries, charities and businesses.

We provide an award-winning service for our clients by employing the best people. Join us on our mission to place the power of good advice into more hands because we believe that everyone deserves access to good advice, regardless of where they're at in their financial journey.

An exceptional track record of growth and innovation is driven by our core values of: Personal, offering advice based on a true understanding of what matters to our clients; Partnership, working with our clients in a joined-up, collaborative way; and Performance, demonstrating a breadth and depth of advice expertise to deliver first-class results.

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Job Description

Role Profile

Purpose of role:

We are looking for an ambitious and experienced individual who is passionate about what they do, bring a level of knowledge and expertise that can bring value to our clients, and want to have a leading role in evolving and growing our digital trust propositions in a growing Risk Advisory practice. Evelyn Partners is on an exciting journey, it is seeking to break the mould of professional services firms, to be unique in its offering and radical in its approach. We want to work with like-minded individuals who will value our clients and thrive on the impact their services can provide.

This is an exciting role in a developing practice, and you will be helping to shape the strategy and be part of a team who are genuinely client focused. We are looking for a candidate from a diverse background, but who has an enthusiasm and passion for what they do; have the ability to apply their experience to intelligent solutions to the organisations they work with; and, have the ability to lead, direct and grow the team and its propositions. We seek candidates with broad experience of assurance and advisory services in relation to cyber assurance; operational resilience; IT controls assurance; information security; and date governance.

You will be joining a growing and ambitious professional services team with a strong emphasis on its people and their development. You will work with some of the UK's most interesting companies/organisations, and will have a role in developing the future of our Risk Advisory practice, working in collaboration within Assurance and Business Services and the wider Evelyn Partners firm, sharing ideas, developing solutions and delivering value. The role will operate nationally, with the initial focus being London, the Southeast and the Southwest.

Reports to: Partner, Risk Advisory

Key responsibilities:

Technical

• Lead and support the development of our digital trust propositions and our approach with clients.
• Have awareness of commercial aspects of the clients' businesses and impact on our work.
• Play a lead role on all aspects of delivery.
• Demonstrate leadership in supporting the technical development of the team delivering the digital trust/technology risk services.
• Oversee and lead on the client administration processes, including client take-on processes; managing firm risk and managing client billing.
• Extensive experience overseeing the delivery of cyber assurance, ISO27001 readiness, cyber essentials readiness and the technology elements of Sarbanes Oxley reviews.

Client Relationship

• Take a leading role to building strong client relationships, ensure they receive an efficient and proactive service and that client expectations are met.
• Manage and oversee the ITGC support to our external audit team and take a lead role in maintaining strong relationships with the Partners/Directors and ensuring that a high-quality service is provided.
• To add value to the client relationship, identifying and developing opportunities to improve the clients' businesses and/or develop additional services for Evelyn Partners.
• Lead and deliver client engagements and assignments, ensuring exceptional client service.

Business/Practice Development

• To support and lead on the development of the team and our digital trust propositions and work to develop campaigns to raise market awareness and build network.
• Lead on the development of novel and innovative proposals for new work, attendance at marketing events, development of personal contacts and identification and development of opportunities for Evelyn Partners with current clients.
• To develop and undertake a continuous marketing programme which creates opportunities to grow our client base.
• Have/build extensive network (internal and external) to promote the digital trust offering.

Staff Management

• Play a pivotal role in building and developing the digital trust team, identifying training and development needs and taking a leadership role in building capacity and capability.
• Have line management role within the Risk Advisory practice.
• To delegate appropriate work and provide appropriate mentoring to more junior staff, aiding their development.
• Have a clear leadership role, playing a key role in leading and supporting the team.

Training and development

• Play an active role in personal development.
• To assess the training, development (and recruitment) needs of the team to support the digital trust propositions.

Key Competencies:

• Planning and organising - to have a lead role in ensuring that all client work is carried out within the appropriate timescales through continual monitoring of progression of the work.
• Active management of a client portfolio, oversee the end-to-end technology focused internal audit or IT controls assurance engagements, from planning through to fieldwork and reporting.
• Technical expertise - strong background in leading and delivering core and related technology risk and digital trust approaches. The ability to translate this into clear scopes and terms of reference and be able to oversee and lead on delivery. To be able to answer staff and client technical queries and make technical decisions.
• Commercial awareness - to take a lead role in making commercial decisions affecting the client and to be able to monitor the commercial effectiveness of work done by Evelyn Partners.
• Teamwork - leading the digital trust team as an integrated part of a wider Risk Advisory practice ensuring that the department as a whole meets its growth and delivery objectives whilst ensuring that all client demands are met.
• Problem solving - technical knowledge to resolve client issues and organisation to be flexible to meet client demands.
• Customer focus - ensuring clients expectations are exceeded, by providing a first-class service at all times.
• Business Development - ability to develop trusted advisor status with clients. Leading on the development of the propositions and on the development of proposal documents.

Qualifications

Education/Qualifications:

• Appropriate technology assurance qualifications (CISA; CISSP; etc)
• Membership of other professional bodies would be welcome (ACA, ACCA; CIA; CMIIA; etc)

Key Experience/Skills:

• Experience or ability to work across a range of sectors
• Experience of (and appetite for) business development activities such as targeting, preparation of proposal documents, proposal presentations and attendance of networking events
• Good working knowledge of skill requirements of staff at various levels to ensure work undertaken by appropriate individual.
• Strong communication skills
• Strong leadership skills and be able to lead, manage/motivate the team.
• Motivated self-starter with ambition to successfully continuing to progress your career
• Ability to deliver against agreed growth targets
• Comfortable in leading on client presentations and attendance at networking events

Additional Information

As a colleague here at Evelyn Partners, you will have access to benefits that include:

• Competitive salary
• Private medical insurance
• Life assurance
• Pension contribution
• Hybrid working model (role dependant)
• Generous holiday package
• Option to purchase additional holiday
• Shared parental leave

We are proud to value the differences that a diverse workforce brings, representative of society and our clients. At Evelyn Partners we have a wide range of highly active employee resource groups and we're delivering multiple diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives across the organisation. It is our commitment to provide a workspace where all colleagues, regardless of identity, background, or circumstance, feel respected as individuals and feel that they can achieve their full potential and work in a safe, supportive, and inclusive environment.

We are happy to make any reasonable adjustments to accommodate for your needs throughout the application process. Please let your Recruiter know.

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