Governance Risk and Compliance Lead
Full Time/Part Time Full Time
Who We Are
At Ikano Bank, we believe work should feel meaningful and inspiring. Together, we create a great place to work where people are inspired to be the best they can be while contributing to a better life for our customers and the long-term success of the Bank. Guided by our Swedish heritage and values: common sense and simplicity, working together and daring to be different, we keep things straightforward and down-to-earth. If you like the idea of being part of a team that works hard, enjoys solving challenges together and dares to do things a little differently, you will feel right at home here.
Working in the Commercial B2C Function means creating and shaping the banking products and services our customers rely on. You’ll drive innovation by developing new solutions, enhancing existing ones, and ensuring they stay competitive, compliant, and profitable. Every day, you’ll make an impact by delivering value to customers, guiding the bank’s growth, and keeping our offerings relevant and attractive in a fast-changing market.
Purpose of the Job Lead and drive governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) across Commercial B2C function, ensuring robust regulatory adherence, risk management, and efficient governance practices. Contribute to and drive GRC initiatives, including regulatory change implementations, ensuring alignment across processes, controls, and governance frameworks. The role enables responsible business growth by translating GRC requirements into practical, commercially relevant ways of working.
Responsibilities of the Job - Drive the continuous improvement of process documentation in partnership with functional leaders, ensuring alignment with regulatory requirements, internal policies, and risk and control standards.
Drive and support assessment, monitoring, and improvement of operational and compliance risks, supporting appropriate controls and contributing to root cause analysis and corrective action planning for risk incidents. Coordinate and drive implementation of regulatory changes impacting Commercial B2C, ensuring alignment across processes, documentation, controls, and governance artefacts in collaboration with business area owners and control functions. Support implementation, oversight and maintenance of Steering documents across Commercial B2C. Assist with internal and external audits by preparing documentation, supporting findings reviews, and tracking corrective actions. Support functional departments with general GRC activities in collaboration with control functions. Support the Commercial Management team and senior stakeholders with ad-hoc reporting and analysis. Drive and lead cross-functional GRC initiatives, ensuring timely, coordinated, and compliant execution across impacted areas. Operate flexibly across Commercial B2C’s GRC priorities, with the primary focus to be agreed based on business need - including support to Business Owners through a dotted-line partnership and/or participation in a virtual team with Sourcing & Supplier Management on supplier-related GRC.
Education Level Bachelor's Degree
Experience/Demonstrated Competencies - Previous experience working in a banking or financial services environment for a minimum of 5 years.
Previous experience working with governance, risk, and/or compliance activities in a regulated environment. Previous experience working with process documentation and process improvement. Previous experience supporting or delivering support to co-workers in an engaging and practical manner. Previous experience coordinating cross-functional initiatives involving business stakeholders, control functions, and senior management.
Language Competencies - Fluency in English required; additional European languages beneficial.
Knowledge required - Understanding of GRC frameworks and how they apply in a banking or financial services environment.
Awareness of risk assessment, compliance monitoring, and basic control mechanisms. Understanding of process documentation standards and how processes connect to risk and regulatory requirements. Awareness of the regulatory landscape relevant to commercial banking operations. Knowledge of how to support training delivery and engage others in compliant ways of working.
Capabilities for this job - Act as a trusted advisor to business stakeholders on GRC practices, translating regulatory and policy requirements into actionable solutions.
Able to support and facilitate risk and compliance meetings and forums on behalf of the function. Ability to plan, prioritise, and deliver reporting and documentation accurately and on time. Capable of identifying when to escalate a risk or compliance issue to the Head of Commercial Office or senior stakeholders. Capable of supporting business units in assessing residual risks, managing incidents, and tracking mitigating actions to closure. Comfortable presenting GRC topics clearly and confidently to co-workers and internal stakeholders. Ability to operate effectively across multiple focus areas (e.g. Business GRC support and Supplier/Sourcing GRC), collaborating in distributed and virtual team setups. Strong self-leadership and ability to operate independently, acting as an informal GRC leader by proactively driving initiatives and representing the function across stakeholders. Strong commercial mindset, with the ability to translate GRC requirements into practical solutions that enable responsible business growth.
What motivates you? - Strength of drive to bring structure, attention to detail, and rigour to governance, risk, and compliance activities.
Always looking to improve - motivated by simplifying and optimising GRC processes to make the function work better. Passion for translating regulatory and policy requirements into practical, workable frameworks and controls. Highly collaborative - energised by working across teams and functions to embed compliant ways of working. Inspirational in how you build risk awareness and a strong GRC culture among co-workers.
Ready to apply?
If this sounds like your kind of workplace, we would love to hear from you. You do not have to tick every single box. What matters most is your drive, your ideas and your willingness to grow with us. Our application process is simple. Just click on the Apply Button and we will get in touch with you soon. Apply today and let us build something different together. You want to know more about Ikano Bank? Check out our videos about culture, social/corporate responsibility and everyday working at the bank. For any questions, feel free to contact us at recruitment@ikano.se.
Salary (per annum) According to the market
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Applications Close Date 18 Sep 2026