Operational Resilience Specialist

Hybrid working: 2-3 days per week required in the office.

DGH Recruitment are currently recruiting on behalf of a market leading financial services organisation who are looking for an Operational Resilience Specialist to join the team on a permanent basis.

The successful candidate will be responsible for representing my clients operational resilience function to assess and quantify operational resilience risk and embed remediation measures to ensure that ongoing business as usual is resilient and accountable.

Responsibilities:
- Advise on the adoption of operational resilience framework and methodologies across the business.
- Conduct analysis that quantifies the resilience of individual business processes, technology and third parties.
- Provide recommendations and approaches toward improving operational resilience, both tactically and strategically.
- Assist the Group Head of Operational Resilience in the development of compliance, reporting and support to corporate governance forums.
- Work to design and deliver severe but plausible exercise scenarios that test resilience.
- Produce detailed and accurate written reports for the benefit of incident review, reporting to regulators and implementing corporate learning and best practice.

Required Skills/Experience:
- Strong understanding of operational or business resilience concepts, as distinct from business continuity, in financial services or other complex regulated industries.
- Experience with analysing large data sets.
- Good collaboration skills as the role requires collaboration with peers across the organisation.
- Ability to negotiate and influence colleagues and stakeholders across levels of seniority.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Operational Resilience Specialist

In accordance with the Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003, this position is advertised based upon DGH Recruitment Limited having first sought approval of its client to find candidates for this position.

DGH Recruitment Limited acts as both an Employment Agency and Employment Business