Specialist risk capacity without building a large permanent team.
Two Lines Risk can operate defined parts of your risk program as an extension of your internal team — assessment queues, evidence review, control testing, remediation follow-up and reporting — under your governance and inside your tooling.
- Named analysts, not a rotating pool
- Your methodology, your systems, your decision rights
- Service levels agreed per risk tier
- Designed to be handed back at any point
The three conditions that most often trigger a risk operations engagement.
- An assessment backlog is delaying business onboarding
- A regulatory commitment has a date attached to it
- Headcount is approved but hiring will take two quarters
Capacity you can hold to a number.
Managed risk work is only defensible if its output is measured. These are the metrics we report against from the first month — illustrative here, agreed with you in practice.
What we can operate.
Selected individually or combined. Nothing here removes accountability from your second line — it removes the execution load from it.
Assessment throughput
A named team working your queue under your methodology, with agreed turnaround times per tier and a weekly view of what is moving and what is blocked.
- Vendor assessments by tier
- Security questionnaire analysis
- Evidence and report review
- Reassessment cycles
- Intake triage
- Assessment quality review
Control operations
The recurring control work that gets deferred when the team is stretched — and that an auditor will ask about first.
- Control testing execution
- Evidence collection & filing
- Exception and expiry tracking
- Control status reporting
- Policy-to-control traceability
- Framework mapping maintenance
Remediation follow-up
Chasing actions is unglamorous, time-consuming and the single largest determinant of whether a finding results in a change.
- Findings register maintenance
- Owner and due-date follow-up
- Vendor remediation liaison
- Closure validation
- Escalation preparation
- Overdue action reporting
Reporting and readiness
Recurring reporting produced on a fixed cadence, and the evidence pack assembled before the audit rather than during it.
- Committee and board packs
- Coverage and freshness metrics
- Audit and regulator evidence packs
- Findings response support
- Risk documentation upkeep
- Backlog reduction programs
How the engagement works.
- 01
Adopt your methodology
We work to your framework, criteria and risk appetite. Where they are absent or ambiguous we propose the missing definition and you approve it — we do not substitute our own quietly.
- 02
Agree the operating envelope
Scope, service levels per tier, escalation thresholds, decision rights and what must always return to your team. Approval of residual risk stays with you.
- 03
Run in your tooling
Your GRC platform, ticketing system and evidence repository. We do not require a migration, and we do not create a parallel record only we can read.
- 04
Report against throughput and quality
Volume, turnaround, coverage, evidence freshness and remediation ageing — reported on a fixed cadence so the value of the capacity is measurable.
- 05
Hand back cleanly
Documentation, decision history and working practice maintained so the function can be taken back in-house at any point without reconstruction.
Add capacity without adding a hiring cycle.
Tell us the queue, the backlog or the commitment with a date on it, and we will scope the capacity and the service levels around it.