Risk & Assurance Lead

Job Description

The role of the Risk & Assurance Lead sits within the SPT Performance & Reporting team reporting to the Enterprise Performance & Planning Manager. They are primarily responsible for ensuring that SPT has an effectively designed and operating consolidated risk framework in place. The role is responsible for defining and implementing an appropriate risk-based prioritisation model and providing sufficient assurance over strategic business risks to Executive Management and the SPT Managing Director.

The Risk & Assurance Lead is also responsible for managing the business interface with key stakeholders, including risk functions within SPT PMOs, the SPEN Enterprise Risk Partner and Network Planning & Regulation, ensuring proactive visibility of relevant enterprise risks.

What you'll be doing

As Risk & Assurance Lead, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining the risk management framework across SP Transmission, ensuring a consistent and effective approach to risk identification, assessment and governance. Working closely with stakeholders across the business, you will consolidate project and operational risks into a strategic view, providing insight and assurance to senior leaders and supporting informed decision-making.

You will lead the production of risk reporting and assurance activities across the portfolio, ensuring risks and opportunities are accurately quantified, managed and escalated where required. The role will involve chairing risk forums, delivering risk-based reviews and assurance programmes, and driving action plans that strengthen controls, improve performance and support successful project delivery.

As the key interface with Enterprise Risk, Network Planning & Regulation and the wider SPEN risk community, you will ensure alignment with SPEN and Iberdrola standards while maintaining awareness of emerging industry risks. You will champion continuous improvement, embedding best practice risk and assurance processes that enhance resilience, governance and business performance across the organisation.

What you'll bring

• Educated to degree level or equivalent in commercial/business subject such as economics, finance, risk, or numeric degree
• Prior experience of risk management in a regulatory capacity or other related field complimented by past audit or consulting experience
• Strong quantitative and qualitative analytical skills, including QSRA / QCRA methodologies.
• Strong written and oral communication skills, with the ability to negotiate/influence
• Competence in Microsoft Office Applications
• Experience in IT Systems, namely, advanced risk management software
• Ability to work with limited supervision and to interact across all levels of management and executive
• Ability to design new process and frameworks, while supporting implementation of these across a business unit.
• Understanding and knowledge of energy markets and the regulatory drivers and risks affecting operation of a Transmission Network.
• Excellent presentation skills, with experience in dealing with senior management.
• Ability to effectively lead teams (not necessarily in line) and work in cross functional teams.
• Exceptionally proactive nature, with the ability to innovate and challenge in recognition and support of the business model in which SPT is operating.

What's in it for you

As well as a competitive salary which is reviewed annually, you can also enjoy a number of other benefits. With our pension scheme, we'll double match your contribution up to a company contribution of 10%.

At ScottishPower, we believe it's the little things we do in life that make a big difference. From helping you look after your family's wellbeing, save for your future and take personal steps for climate action - our benefits are designed to help you do just that - so that you have everything you need to take care of your world - today and tomorrow. That's why our benefits include:

• 36 days annual leave
• Holiday Purchase - perfect your work/life balance with extra annual leave
• Share Schemes
• Payroll Giving and Charity Matched Funding
• Technology Vouchers - save more and spread the cost of your technology purchases
• Electric Vehicle Schemes - to help you transition to green/clean driving
• Cycle to Work scheme and Public Transport Season Ticket Loans
• Healthcare benefit options including: Dental Insurance, Private Medical Insurance, Health Cash Plan and annual Health Assessments
• Life Assurance (4x salary)
• Access to Savesmart financial wellbeing support
• Plus shopping, leisure, restaurant and gym discounts, and unique employee deals on travel insurance and more

Why SP Energy Networks

SP Energy Networks is part of the Iberdrola Group, one of the world's largest integrated utility companies and a world leader in wind energy. We keep electricity flowing to homes and businesses through Central and Southern Scotland, North Wales and in the North West of England. We operate over 4000km of cables and lines that make-up the transmission network - connecting infrastructure like wind farms into the electricity system. It's a role that puts us right at the heart of Scotland's ambition to be Net Zero by 2044. And we're taking it very seriously.

We're investing >£5.5 billion into our transmission network, directly supporting the rapid growth needed in renewable energy. With diverse opportunities across our businesses and a commitment to invest in our own internal talent, ScottishPower can offer people real career opportunities that meet personal and professional goals, in a global organisation.

Inclusion, diversity, and a social purpose are at the heart of everything we do. Together with our values, they bring us together into a stronger, more sustainable business with direct links to the communities we serve. It takes all kinds of people to build a large-scale business like ours, so whatever your background, you'll fit right in.

We are committed to providing reasonable support or adjustments in our recruiting processes for candidates with disabilities, long term conditions, mental health conditions, or who are neurodivergent or require pregnancy-related support. If you need support, please reach out to [email protected].

Mobility

Please note that any applicant who is not a citizen of the country of the vacancy will be subject to compliance with the applicable immigration requirements to legally work in that country. If/when required, the Company will support the employee with the necessary Immigration requirements.