Head of Technology GRC

Markerstudy Group have an exciting opportunity to share.

This is a hybrid role with the requirement to work 2 days a week from either our Manchester, Stoke, Chesterfield, Peterborough or Tunbridge Wells office.

To lead the Technology Governance, Risk & Compliance activities, ensuring technology solutions align to overarching business objectives while safeguarding it against risk.

The role provides strategic leadership and direction across governance, risk management, assurance, and compliance activities. It ensures that technology risks are transparent, controlled, and embedded within enterprise risk management processes, while enabling innovation and digital transformation.

The role is accountable for establishing a robust control environment, providing independent oversight and assurance, and influencing senior stakeholders to make informed, risk-based decisions.

• Establish a Technology GRC function.
• Own and mature the IT risk management framework.
• Support departmental strategies by setting risk objectives.
• Report and recommend risk mitigation strategies to senior leadership.
• Establish and maintain a multi regulation Controls Framework.
• Creating reporting for risk and audit committees at group and divisional levels.
• Establish external relationships with industry peers and working groups.
• Ensure M-Powered maintains operational compliance to key regulations such as payments, GDPR, FCA & PRA.
• Ensure all regulatory processes and documentation are maintained.
• Ensure greater collaboration on risk and audit remediation activities including the development of strategic solutions where appropriate.
• Build a high performing GRC team, ensuring staff morale and wellbeing are considered.

• An ability to communicate complex technical issues.
• An in-depth knowledge of risk and control frameworks, payment, FCA, PRA regulations, GDPR, ISO27001, NIST.
• Proven experience of managing auditors.
• A demonstrated ability to use positive influencing skills effectively to modify opinions, plans, or behaviours.
• Strong decision-making capabilities, with a proven ability to weigh the relative costs and benefits of potential actions and identify the most appropriate one.
• Has good judgment, a sense of urgency, demonstrable commitment to high standards of ethics, regulatory compliance, customer service and business integrity.