Resilience Testing Lead

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Resilience Testing Lead to 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.

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

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

If you feel you’d be a great fit for Royal London but don’t meet every requirement, we’d still love to hear from you. Research shows some candidates are less likely to apply unless they meet 100% of the criteria - if you meet most requirements and are keen to learn, we encourage you to apply!

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