Job Description:
Risk Assurance Manager
Grade: C16
Contract: Permanent
Location: Bupa Place (M50 3SP) Angel Court (EC2R 7HJ) Staines (TW18 3DZ) Brighton (BN1 4FY)
Hybrid working: 2 days per week in any Bupa office
Working hours: 37.5 hours per week
Salary: From £60,000 per annum, depending on experience
Benefits: Role-specific bonus of 10% MBS
Closing Date : 25/11/2026
The role holder is a senior specialist practitioner within the 2nd line Risk Assurance function, responsible for independently planning and delivering complex, risk-based assurance reviews, thematic deep dives, compliance monitoring and targeted investigations across areas of material risk. The role provides an independent view on whether key risks are understood, owned and effectively controlled, with a focus on the issues that matter most to customers, regulators and the organisation.
This is a highly visible individual contributor role. The role holder will work directly with senior stakeholders, subject matter experts and functional leaders, using evidence, insight and professional judgement to provide credible second-line challenge and influence practical improvements to risk management, controls, governance and regulatory compliance.
The role does not carry direct people-management responsibilities. Instead, it offers the opportunity to operate as a senior technical contributor, trusted adviser and lead reviewer, with broad exposure across the organisation and the ability to influence how material risks are understood, prioritised and addressed.
How you’ll help us make health happen
Independently plan and deliver complex, risk-based second-line assurance reviews, thematic reviews, deep dives, compliance monitoring and targeted investigations across areas of significant business, customer and regulatory risk.
Lead individual assurance assignments end-to-end, coordinating input from subject matter experts where required and ensuring work is completed at pace, to a high standard and with clear conclusions.
Provide independent validation of management actions and remediation, assessing whether actions address root causes and sustainably strengthen the risk and control environment.
Act as a trusted second-line specialist to senior stakeholders, bringing an independent perspective to complex, ambiguous or sensitive risk issues.
Influence stakeholders to understand the significance of assurance findings, agree proportionate actions and make sustainable improvements to risk and control outcomes.
Operate as a senior specialist practitioner, bringing depth of expertise in one or more areas such as operational risk, regulatory compliance, conduct, customer outcomes, third parties, operational resilience, data, technology, claims, underwriting or assurance.
Manage the planning and delivery of assigned assurance work, balancing pace, quality, stakeholder engagement and evidence requirements across competing priorities.
Apply second-line assurance expertise to material risks across the organisation, including operational, regulatory, conduct, customer, third party, technology, data, change and operational resilience risks.
Use assurance outcomes to provide forward-looking insight on themes, risk trends, control effectiveness and areas where standards, ownership or remediation need strengthening.
Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role:
Strong 10 years plus experience in risk, assurance, governance, and control roles as a specialist risk, compliance, assurance, controls or audit practitioner within a complex regulated financial services or insurance environment.
Proven experience independently leading complex reviews, deep dives, investigations, compliance monitoring or assurance assignments from scope through to reporting and action validation.
Strong ability to exercise judgement in complex or ambiguous situations, including assessing evidence, determining materiality, identifying root cause and forming clear, defensible conclusions.
Strong understanding of…