Seccl
Resilience & continuity manager
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Role Title: Resilience & Continuity Manager
Location: Flexible hybrid role with options to base it in our Edinburgh, London, or Bath office.
About Seccl
Seccl is the Octopus-owned embedded investment platform on a mission to help more people invest – and invest well.
- B-Corp certified with strong product-market fit and impressive early traction
- Committed to transforming the outdated investment industry for the better
- Experiencing rapid growth, scaling rapidly over the next few years
A proud part of the Octopus group, a £multi-billion organisation dedicated to revitalising broken industries through companies like Octopus Energy, Octopus Investments, and Octopus Money.
For more on their products and mission, visit the Seccl website.
The Role: Resilience & Continuity Manager
A hands-on opportunity to develop, implement, and maintain Seccl’s business continuity and operational resilience framework.
Key focus areas:
- Safeguarding stakeholders and maintaining critical operations
- Quick recovery from operational disruptions
- Supporting regulatory compliance (FCA Operational Resilience and EU DORA obligations)
- Embedding resilience thinking across day-to-day business decisions
Collaborating with teams across the business to drive continuous improvement, exercises, governance, and compliance efforts.
Key Responsibilities
On a typical day, you will:
- Maintain and enhance Seccl’s business continuity management system (ensure it remains current, effective, and well-documented)
- Facilitate business impact assessments (BIAs) and business continuity risk assessments
- Develop, review, and maintain practical business continuity plans in partnership with stakeholders
- Support operational resilience activities, including:
- Documentation of processes
- Evidence and records for regulatory compliance
- Design, coordinate, and facilitate business continuity, operational resilience, and crisis management exercises
- Assess testing outcomes, identify lessons learned, and track remediation actions to completion
- Produce high-quality governance and management information reports for:
- Senior stakeholders
- Governance forums
- Board-level audiences
- Use insight and trend analysis to support risk-based decision-making
- Support third-party continuity and resilience assessments
- Identify opportunities to improve resilience through:
- Tooling
- Automation
- Data-driven reporting
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Who You Are
Essential Fit for the Role
- Proven experience in:
- Operational resilience
- Business continuity management (BCM)
- Risk disciplines (preferably within financial services)
- Strong understanding of:
- FCA Operational Resilience requirements
- EU DORA obligations
- Experience in:
- Designing, facilitating, and evaluating scenario exercises
- Resilience testing programmes
- Ability to:
- Generate clear governance reporting
- Present findings confidently to senior stakeholders
- Experience maintaining:
- Policies, standards, procedures, and evidence for:
- Regulatory considerations
- Audit and assurance purposes
- Policies, standards, procedures, and evidence for:
- Strong communication skills to engage with:
- Technical and non-technical stakeholders
- A risk-aware mindset, balancing:
- Regulatory expectations
- Commercial and operational realities
Not Suitable If
❌ Rely heavily on top-down direction – this role requires autonomy and initiative ❌ Comfortable in slow-paced environments – Seccl’s speed and scalability define its culture ❌ Dislikes follow-through – commitment and accountability are highly valued ❌ Resists change or ambiguity – rapid growth and evolving needs require adaptability
What’s In It For You?
Seccl offers a generous mix of benefits to foster well-being and flexibility:
Compensation & Holidays
- Salary: £60,000 – £80,000 (depending on experience) + annual review
- 27 days holiday + bank holidays (some flexible)
- Birthday off annually
- 3 days (full-time) Dependant leave per year
Support & Development
- Two volunteering days per year
- Option to work abroad for up to 6 weeks annually
- Secclbrate recognition programme, including:
- Bonus opportunities
- Additional holiday pay
- Increased learning budget
- One month paid sabbatical at eight years of service
- Pension contribution: 6% employer
- Life assurance coverage
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Wellbeing
- Private medical insurance (AXA Health)
- Enhanced parental leave
- £750 individual learning budget
- Health and wellbeing perks:
- Free therapy via Wellness Cloud
- Mental health support via Headspace
Financial & Mobility Benefits
- Strong focus on financial wellbeing:
- Access to Octopus Money
- Octopus Share Incentive Plan
- Will writing offering via Octopus Legacy
- Tech and setup support:
- MacBook and up to £500 home office setup budget
- Perkbox discounts (including free weekly coffee, gym, and retail offers)
- Cycle-to-work and Octopus Electric Vehicle Leasing initiatives
Our Culture
A people-first culture that prioritises:
- Listening attentively to individual needs
- Fostering transparency and inclusion
- Celebrating diversity of thought and experimentation
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Interview Process
(Conversational approach – prepared questions and curiosity actively encouraged.)
- First stage: 45-minute competencies-based interview with the hiring manager + team member
- Second stage: One-hour technical interview/assessment
- Final stage: 45-minute bar-raiser culture interview
💡 Note: Role remains open until enough candidates are secured for the next stage. Apply quickly for prompt consideration (expected 1–2 week response post-application).
Diversity & Inclusivity
Seccl is committed to a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace:
- Blind recruitment policies
- Zero judgement on:
- Age
- Ethnicity
- Religion
- Sex/gender identity
- Sexual orientation
- Family or parental status
- National origin
- Veteran or neurodiversity status
- Disability status**
Apply if you think this could be a great fit—no need for every criterion to be perfect!
Info: Compensation range: £60K–£80K (negotiable based on experience).
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