Overview

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Division – Operations – Cyber & Operational Resilience
Salary - National (Edinburgh and Leeds) ranging from £43,100 to £45,800 and London 47,300 to £50,000 per annum (Salary offered will be based on skills and experience).

About The FCA
The FCA regulates the conduct of 45,000 firms in the UK to ensure our financial markets are honest, fair and competitive. Follow this link to find out more About the FCA.

Responsibilities

• Support the development and implementation of the FCA’s Operational Resilience framework, partnering with Important Business (IB) Service and divisional Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to implement the framework, developing and maintaining robust resilience plans across the organisation.
• Act as a point of contact and resilience SME for the business and functions, providing resilience and continuity advice to deliver the operational resilience framework.
• Partner with business and function colleagues supporting the resilience agenda, including contingency planning champions and SMEs.
• Support maintenance of IB Services, creating and maintaining process and dependency maps and tolerance statements for each service.
• Support identification and documentation of vulnerabilities or risks that may need to be resolved to ensure continued operational resilience.
• Conduct resilience due diligence assurance on third parties supporting important business services and key processes across the organisation, providing a view of risks to resilience to appropriate forums.

What you will get from the role

• The chance to stimulate new perspectives and innovative ideas to improve engagement with stakeholders.
• The chance to join the dots on issues, analyse information and partner with colleagues across the FCA to ensure appropriate linkage for presentation to internal stakeholders.
• The chance to maintain and share a resilience by design mindset.
• Be in a role that is organisation wide, ensuring operational resilience, avoiding harm to consumers, stakeholders and the financial services markets, and reputational damage to the FCA.

Skills and qualifications

Disability Confident Employer – disabled people or individuals with long-term conditions who best meet the minimum criteria for a role will go through to the next stage of the recruitment process. (To learn more about the Disability Confident Scheme, Click Here).

Minimum

• Some knowledge of Operational Resilience and the foundational role of traditional business continuity practices.
• Prior experience in process analysis, improvement, change management and governance.
• Awareness of risk management and controls.

Essential

• Forward thinking and quick to adapt to the fast-changing digital world in the context of resilience.
• Strong communications, influencing and negotiation skills to work effectively with a wide range of stakeholders.
• Delivery focus and ability to coordinate deliverables to prioritise work effectively.
• Networking to build relationships, challenging and supporting colleagues in the development, delivery and evaluation of context.

Our Values & Diversity

We are proud to be an inclusive employer, and our ambition is to cultivate a culture for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences and similarities enable us to be a better organisation – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation, and delivers better regulation. Within the workplace you will have access to various employee resource groups which aim to promote and achieve a healthy work / life balance and support our diversity ambitions.

Benefits Of Working At The FCA

• 25 days holiday per year plus bank holidays
• Hybrid working (work from home up to 60% of your time)
• Private healthcare with Bupa
• A non-contributory Pension of at least 8% of basic salary each month (increasing with age up to 12%)
• Life assurance of eight times your basic salary
• Income protection

We also have a competitive flexible benefits scheme which allows you to create a personalised benefits package, tailored to suit your lifestyle.

We welcome applications from candidates who are looking for flexible arrangements. Many staff work flexibly including part-time, staggered hours, and job shares. We can’t promise to give you exactly what you want but we can explore what might work best for both sides.

Application Support

We are dedicated to removing barriers and ensuring our application process is accessible to everyone. We offer adjustments to make your application experience as comfortable and straightforward as possible. If you have an accessibility need, disability, or condition requiring changes to the recruitment process, please contact your recruiter using the details below and they will be happy to discuss this further with you.

Useful Information and Timeline

• This role is graded as Associate
• Advert Closing Date: 18th of September
• CV Review/Shortlist: 22nd of September
• Competency Based Interview: Week commencing 29th of September

Your Recruiter will discuss the process in detail with you during screening for the role, therefore, please make them aware if you are going to be unavailable for any date during this time.

Got a question?

If you are interested in learning more about the role, please contact:

Riley Fox at Riley.fox@fca.org.uk

Applications must be submitted through our online portal. Applications sent via email will not be accepted.