Operational Resilience and Business Continuity Lead, EMEA (VP)

What you bring

• You will have come up through resilience, continuity, operational risk, technology risk or internal audit inside an asset, wealth or investment manager; banking or insurance experience on its own will not meet the brief.
• The client's stated minimum experience is lower than you might expect; we are looking at people with five years or more in the field.
• You will have delivered FCA PS21/3 in practice rather than reviewed someone else's delivery.
• You will be comfortable in front of a board, able to build relationships across a firm and to move people who do not report to you, and able to deliver a programme to a timetable.
• A degree in a relevant subject and the right to work in the UK are both required.

Where it takes you

Scope

• Most people in resilience spend years owning a slice of the programme, the continuity plans, say, or the testing calendar, while someone else presents the whole.
• This role hands you the whole of it for a region, at VP grade, with the regional risk committee and the entity boards as your audience.
• That is the record a head-of appointment is built on, and you would be building it at a global manager whose name you will know.

The room to shape it

• In the region, the resilience decisions are yours: which tolerances you are prepared to defend and how, what the exercise calendar looks like, what the committee sees and in what order, and where next year's effort goes.
• The region's resilience function is yours to run, from the network of representatives to the papers the boards read; you build on the framework rather than administer someone else's, and the group's resilience projects give you reach beyond EMEA when you want it.

The work is visible

• You chair the technology risk forum and present to the regional risk committee and the entity boards.
• The reporting that goes to the regulators goes out under your name.
• Senior people across the region will know your work inside a quarter, because it reaches them directly rather than through a layer above you.

Why you

• The people who succeed in roles like this have delivered the work themselves inside an asset, wealth or investment manager, often as the London or EMEA lead for a firm headquartered elsewhere, and can explain a scenario test result to a COO as clearly as to a regulator.
• It is sized for a strong number two, or the sole resilience owner at a smaller manager, who is ready to be the accountable name.
• You will run the representatives across the business, work alongside the technology teams, and answer for the outcome yourself.
• If you would rather delegate that accountability, the role will feel demanding; if you have been waiting for it, you will recognise it.

If the timing is right for you, and you want a bigger challenge than the one you have, apply. We are looking for someone who can deliver excellence in resilience for a region, and we will be delighted to consider your application.

RiskTAE is acting as an employment agency for this role and is an equal opportunities recruiter. Every application is assessed on the experience and capability it shows, whatever your background. If you need an adjustment at any stage of the process, tell us and we will arrange it.