Change Risk Lead

Help shape how change risk is understood, managed and controlled within Yorkshire Building Society. This is a high-impact role combining portfolio risk leadership, assurance activity and hands-on engagement with delivery teams, offering strong visibility across senior governance forums and executive stakeholders. You’ll be at the heart of change delivery, ensuring risks are identified early, managed effectively and translated into clear, decision-useful insight.

About the role

The Change Risk Lead is accountable for embedding the enterprise change risk management framework across the portfolio, ensuring change-related risks, controls and operational impacts are consistently identified, managed and escalated in line with governance and risk appetite expectations.

• Lead the adoption and application of the enterprise change risk management framework across portfolios and projects, ensuring consistent standards, effective risk management practices and high-quality risk information across the change lifecycle.
• Own the portfolio view of change delivery risk, coordinating portfolio-level risks, mitigations and control actions while providing clear, aggregated risk reporting and insight to senior stakeholders and governance forums.
• Partner with Delivery, Governance, Risk and Audit teams to drive assurance activity, RCSA delivery, control readiness and continuous improvement in change risk management maturity across the organisation.

About you

You are an experienced change risk professional with the ability to combine practical delivery understanding with robust risk management expertise, operating confidently across both delivery and risk communities within a regulated environment.

• Significant experience managing change delivery risk across complex portfolios, including ownership of portfolio-level risk views, risk frameworks and governance reporting that support executive decision-making.
• Strong technical capability across enterprise risk management, assurance, control design and risk reporting, with the ability to translate complex risks, trends and interdependencies into clear and actionable insight.
• Proven ability to influence and challenge delivery teams, business leaders, risk functions and audit stakeholders, driving stronger risk management practices and continuous improvement within a regulated financial services environment.

About us

At YBS we don’t have shareholders, we have members. We care about people and that includes you. So here, you’ll be respected for who you are, you’ll be able to bring your whole self to work, and you’ll have everything you need to build a long and rewarding career.

Flexibility. We offer a range of flexible working options without unsocial hours, which can help you find a healthy work-life balance. Whether it’s finishing early for an appointment or fitting your studies and hobbies in around your working hours, we can help make it work for you. We’re happy to talk flexible working and you can reach out to us anytime to discuss this during the recruitment process.

Development. We want you to feel challenged here. Whatever your ambitions, we’re committed to helping you develop your skills and move ahead in your career journey. From day one, we’ll set you up for success with a brilliant induction and full training plan, all designed to get you up to speed quickly.

Inclusivity. We’re passionate about creating an inclusive environment where everyone is welcome and able to be themselves. If you’ll go the extra mile to help our members, you’ll fit right in and feel you belong here.

About our Benefits

We offer lots of fantastic rewards that you can make the most of in and out of work, including:

• Holiday. You’ll get 25 days plus Bank Holidays, as well as the option to buy up to a further 5 days.
• Bonus. At YBS we work collaboratively and share in our success together, so when we reach our goals were all rewarded with an on target bonus of 7% of eligible pay (with the opportunity to earn up to a maximum 15%).
• Pension. We know how important it is to save towards the future, that’s why we’ll contribute up 11% into your YBS pension.
• Healthcare. Health and wellbeing are an important part of life at YBS, when you join us you’ll have access to a range of health benefits to suit your life including private medical insurance, dental and healthcare plans.
• My Benefits. When you join YBS you’ll have access to our self-service benefits portal, where you can access a range of retail, hospitality and health discounts.

Ready to apply?

If you’re excited about this role and want to be part of the YBS team, click apply now to send us your application.

Want more information?

If you have any questions about this role, please contact careers@ybs.co.uk