Key workstreams

• Lead the delivery of the Financial Market Infrastructure (FMIs) and Third-Party Resilience Programme, including the prioritization of chosen FMIs and Third Parties, managing the steering group and relationships with the chosen firms, and the application and output of the resiliency, contingency capabilities, and testing findings.
• Support the delivery of Frontier AI-related resilience risk mitigation collective action, including key initiatives, communications, and guidance for the UK financial services sector and the collaboration between CMORG members and leading industry expertise.
• Lead the design, planning, and integration of Critical Third Parties (and other third parties as appropriate) within CMORG’s collective action structures, and within the Sector Response Framework. This includes managing engagement groups with the third parties and working groups of financial services firms, and of key third parties to advise on the approach, alongside authoring and operationalising playbooks.
• Lead the maintenance, evolution, and publication of CMORG’s Strategic Risk Register, which provides a collective basis for the risks posed to firms and the sector. This comprises inputs from CMORG’s Dynamic Scenario Library and Threat Monitoring workstreams, alongside views from the systemic firms, the Authorities, Government, and the National Risk Register.
• Act as an advisory expert across workstreams as required, which may include guiding outcomes of projects to support industry outcomes, and providing strategic direction on the linkages between various domains such as resilience, sector response, cyber, and third parties.
• Undertake support to coordinate other CMORG workstreams as required, which includes managing through its project lifecycle from business case, governance, and delivery.

UK Finance led committees

• Manage the CMORG meeting lifecycle, including the UK Finance engagement on the agenda and papers, in collaboration with the Bank of England. These are senior-level board-style meetings compromised of C-Suite from systemically important firms, Authorities, and Government.
• Chair and oversee the CMORG Briefers Group to ensure it supports CMORG in effective decision-making. This group is made up of senior resilience and government affairs leads that brief their CMORG members on decisions and recommendations for the governance and strategy of CMORG.
• Work with the co-chairs and secretariats across the CMORG structure to coordinate governance and timelines for workstreams.

Strategic Capabilities

• Provide collaborative oversight of Sector Response Framework, through developing and delivering its workplan, working closely with the Co-Chairs and the sector groups. This may include acting as co-chair of the groups.
• Oversee the technical exercise program under CMORG, including the Post Exercise Report and the delivery of its findings.
• Collaborate with the Bank of England on the design and delivery of SIMEX, the large-scale sector simulation exercise.
• Lead the design and delivery of CMORG conferences, and related CMORG communication events, working closely with the UK Finance Events team and stakeholders to set the theme, agenda, oversee the planning, and its strategic and commercial outcomes in line with CMORG priorities.
• Oversee the communications strategy and approach for CMORG, including its website, member portal, accessibility of its Traffic Light Protocol (TLP) rated artefacts, use and engagement of its LinkedIn page, and awareness raising across other external channels.
• Coordinate effectively between sector response groups such as UK Finance’s Business and Operational Resilience Committee (BOCC) and the Financial Sector Cyber Collaboration Centre (FSCCC) on information sharing, playbooks, and response frameworks as required.

Relationships

• Ensure effective ongoing relationships with industry, Authorities, Government, and related governance fora.
• Where appropriate, support international engagement to further the reach and understanding of CMORG and its capabilities.
• Represent UK Finance and CMORG on various committees and internationally as required.

People

• Manage the performance of the CMORG team to deliver effective outcomes, including Manager, Analyst, and Intern resources.
• Coordinate within the PMO on the appropriate resourcing of the governance, project management, and engagement across its portfolio of workstreams.
• Collaborate with the wider UK Finance Resilience and Cyber Team to ensure CMORG workstreams and governance work effectively with UK Finance’s incident management capabilities, and where possible supports its policy outcomes.

Skills and Competencies

• Experience and understanding of operational resilience, cyber, and third party within financial services at a strategic level, with a strong understanding of the ecosystem across retail, wholesale, infrastructure, and suppliers, and how they are regulated.
• Experience in a strategic role, setting and overseeing priorities for complex stakeholders, and in managing resources to enable delivery of effective outcomes.
• Project management experience, including managing and chairing steering committees, and developing project reports and artefacts.
• Engaging with C-suite and senior stakeholders across regulators, Government, and industry including experience in resolving differing views between key participants.
• Research, design, and content development, analysis, briefing, and drafting, including writing papers, media content, blogs, and online material.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, together with the ability to effectively manage stakeholder relationships.
• Ability to work within multi-disciplinary project teams, provide input to others’ work, and deliver excellent outcomes in a timely and agile fashion.
• Welcomed but not essential is the experience of managing a business and organization, including budgets, brands, resources, and reputation within the context of its capability to deliver for its stakeholders and communicate its outputs effectively.

Qualifications

• A degree or other equivalent, relevant qualification.
• Relevant project management or wider business management qualifications welcomed but not essential.
• Relevant business continuity qualifications welcomed but not essential.