My client, an established Financial Services firm based in London, are looking for an Operational Resilience Manager to join their team. For this role you have to be in the office 5 days every two weeks (rotates 3 v 2 per week).

About the Operational Resilience Specialist Role:

My client has an established and dedicated Resilience team, reporting to the Chief Operating Officer and has developed and implement an Operational Resilience Framework, underpinned by an on-going Operational Resilience Plan, to enable the on-going monitoring and management of its Operational Resilience posture. They are looking for an Operational Resilience Specialist to join their growing team.

Strategic:

The successful candidate will work with the business resilience leads to evolve and develop the underpinning components of my client's Operational Resilience Framework, to include:

* Establishing and maintaining best of breed resilience methodology
* Engagement and monitoring of regulatory environment to inform my client's approach to Resilience
* Aligning Operational Resilience strategy to updates and changes to overall Corporate Strategy and divisional strategy updates.

Knowledge, skills and abilities/competencies required for successful job performance:

The candidate will possess deep analytical skills in areas of business services and processes, understanding the relationship to underpinning resources (eg Technology, People, Facilities and Third Parties) and be able to assist the business in determining the importance of these services and processes both internally and across the markets.

In addition to this, they will be:

* Be experienced in presenting structured analysis of prioritized risk statements
* Familiar with project life cycles and business case development in support of risk mitigation.
* Comfortable in co-ordinating and chairing meetings at all levels of the organization, from low level working groups through to senior level steering meetings

Experience/essential and desired for successful job performance:

The candidate shall have the following experience:

* A history of Operational Risk analysis, specifically in the Resilience domain.
* Experience across technology, third party, facilities and people risk analysis and mitigation.
* Experience in the delivery of projects providing solutions across the breadth of a company's operations; business process, technology solutions, cyber remediation, third party risk etc.
* Close to, or involved in, the FCA/BoE proposals on operational resilience would be beneficial.

Qualifications/certifications:

Recognized qualifications in the following areas will be beneficial:
* Operational/Enterprise Risk Management
* Business Analysis
* Project Management (eg Prince/PMI/APM)
* Cyber Management (eg CISM)

If the above is of interest and you would like to know more please call me or send your application to this advert.

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