As with any business, we face risks and uncertainties especially as we look to grow our business here in the UK and around the world. Effective risk management helps support the successful delivery of our strategic objectives.
We have an established risk management framework to identify, assess, mitigate and monitor the risks we face as a business and help deliver a balance between risk and opportunity. The risk management framework incorporates both a top-down approach to identify the Company’s principal risks and a bottom-up approach to identify operational risks. The Executive team is responsible for identifying, managing and monitoring the principal risks. The Board is accountable for the overall risk management process and determining the effectiveness of the Executive team’s risk management. Similarly, all business units and functions are responsible for identifying and assessing their risks, both current and emerging, and measuring them against the defined criteria, considering the likelihood of occurrence and the potential impact to the Group. This review includes an assessment of the movement in the risks, the strength of the controls relied upon and the status of the mitigation actions.
