Operational Resilience Governance Specialist - 12 month FTC

My client, an International Bank, based in London, are looking for an Operational Resilience Governance specialsit to join them on a 12 month fixed term contract. For this role you would required to be in the office up to 3 days per week.

About the Operational Resilience Goverance Specialist Role:

The successful candidate will be responsible for supporting the Governance and Change Management Lead on developing, embedding and managing the Operational Resilience framework tools and methodologies in line with regulatory requirements to enable the achievement of my client's strategic objectives. Specific responsibilities include:

• Supporting all tasks to promote awareness and understanding of Operational Resilience across the firm, supporting communications and training campaigns across all levels.
• Build on and maintain strong collaborative relationships across three lines of defence with key stakeholders, helping the SMF24, Service Owners and Resource Owners perform their duties in line with regulatory expectations.
• Establish and manage the process to monitor the resilience of important business services (IBS's), Critical Important Functions (CIF's) and their supporting resources/critical assets:
• Manage metrics to monitor resilience of IBS' and CIF's;
• Coordinate activity to assess resilience of critical resources/assets
• Establish and produce informative PowerPoint slide to provide reports to stakeholders and senior management
• Support process to assess vulnerabilities, and define and deliver remedial actions:
• Support the business areas with tracking weaknesses and vulnerabilities in resilience;
• Track delivery of actions and review evidence of gap closure.
• Participate in establishing and managing the creation the Regulatory Self-Assessment:
• Support with the creation of the annual regulatory self-assessment;
• Coordinate internal governance and approval (incl. Board approval).
• Take a lead role in coordinating the governance of Operational Resilience, preparing papers for relevant committees and ensuring issues are escalated appropriately.
• Support One of my client's delivery in the EMEA region in line with regulatory and Head Office requirements to achievement of my client's strategic objectives.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Work Experience required:

• Experience:
• Working in a governance environment
• understanding of ServiceNow Operational resilience module used in the organisations (preferred).
• Understanding of JIRA used to track deliverables
• knowledge of working in the fields of Operational Resilience and Business Continuity (preferred).
• Creating PowerPoint presentations
• Previously employment experience in:
• the UK Financial sector
• UK Regulatory experience in Operational Resilience or Risk Management areas.
• Good knowledge and understanding of:
• UK Regulatory policy statements on Operational resilience and DORA EU regulations
• Operational Resilience
• Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
• Crisis and Incident Management

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

Skills and knowledge required:

• Technical/Functional Skills:
• Tracking deliverables, risks and issues through the life cycle.
• Facilitating workshops with technical and non-technical stakeholders to drive agreement on requirements and delivery.
• Maintaining Policies, Framework, Procedure documents and rolling out training to stakeholders as required
• Producing PowerPoint slides for senior management forums and committees
• Communication & influencing skills
• Advocate for operational resilience and builds strong relationships with senior stakeholders across all business areas to ensure delivery and embedding of operational resilience throughout the organisation
• Ability to build collaborative relationships across the business, working closely with internal customers
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills, persuades and includes others using a range of approaches to achieve deliverables
• Management skills
• Experience in identifying and resolving risks and issues, or prompt escalation to Programme Manager if they are not able to be resolved
• Knowledge and experience to drive focus on effective and timely delivery of activities, managing the critical path and reporting regularly on status of deliverables
• Ability to work with team members to develop solutions to complex problems and makes recommendations.
• No qualifications required; qualified through experience

If the above role is of interest and you would like to find out more please apply to this ad or call me to find out more.

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