Royal London
Resilience Testing Lead
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Contract Type: Permanent
Location: Alderley Park (Wilmslow)
Working style: Hybrid 50% home / 50% office based
We have a fantastic opportunity for a Resilience Testing Lead to join our Resilience Management Office Team at Royal London. Working closely with senior leaders and executive members from across the business, the Resilience Testing Lead will work to define, manage and implement the Group’s operational resilience scenario testing schedule. You will have specific responsibility for the ongoing enhancement and maturity of our scenario testing against Group important business services and will have an in-depth and operational knowledge of Operational Resilience regulation for both the UK and Ireland.
The Resilience Lead will support the implementation of the appropriate strategies and tactics to achieve a consistent approach to scenario exercising in preparation for Operational Resilience regulatory deadlines, and this is a key role to drive towards regulatory compliance across the broader resilience ecosystem. You will also support the appropriate threat mitigation measures and feed into a scenario exercising programme to help ensure customer harm is not caused. Championing best practice and driving resilient processes and technology to mitigate the impact of a disruption to Group Pillars of Resilience.
About the Role
- Design and implement scenario exercises of an increasingly complex nature, identifying risks to Group important business services
- Producing all governance documentation both in preparation for and post-exercise
- Driving continuous improvement and tracking remediation of identified findings and vulnerabilities across the Resilience ecosystem
- Design of the annual complex Group-wide operational resilience exercise, including all entities
- Maintaining a high level of business, technical and operational knowledge across the organisation, including up and downstream dependencies, to support effective exercise design
- Deliver concise reporting and presenting progress to senior leadership in an easily consumable manner, utilising broad data sets
- Ensuring that resilience risks are raised and tracked, following Group risk management framework
- Collaborate with multiple stakeholders and functions to build strong relationships
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About You
Technical Skills:
- A credible subject matter expert with an in-depth knowledge and operational experience of Operational Resilience testing and exercising
- An understanding of best practice in Business Continuity
- Operational Resilience experience and understanding of Financial Services regulatory expectations for Operational Resilience across the Central bank of Ireland, FCA and PRA
- Proven ability in designing, planning and executing scenario test programmes relating to Operational Resilience
- Evidence more than 3 years’ experience of managing/executing Operational Resilience exercises within a complex regulated organisation
- Experience of providing mentoring/coaching to junior colleagues in the Resilience field
Qualifications/Knowledge:
- Proven track record of implementing areas of Operational resilience regulatory requirements
- In-depth knowledge of operational functional areas (operations / finance/ technology/ supply chain/ property/ information security)
- Proven stakeholder management skills
- Proven commercial awareness
- Excellent communication both written and verbal
- Experience of working in enterprise-scale IT organisations in financial services or similarly regulated industry
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About Royal London
We’re the UK’s largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings and asset management products and services.
Our People Promise to our colleagues is that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve.
We've always been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays, an up to 14% employer matching pension scheme and private medical insurance.
Inclusion, Diversity and Belonging
We’re an Inclusive employer. We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across Royal London. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected – whatever their background.
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