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Location: Alderley Edge, Edinburgh, or London
Working style: Hybrid 50% home/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 across the business, the Resilience Testing Lead will define, manage, and implement the Group’s operational resilience scenario testing schedule. The role involves enhancing and maturing our scenario testing for key business services and possessing in-depth operational knowledge of Operational Resilience regulation in the UK and Ireland.
The Resilience Testing Lead will support the implementation of strategies and tactics to ensure a consistent approach to scenario exercises, maintaining compliance with Operational Resilience regulation. This role is crucial in driving regulatory compliance across the resilience ecosystem, supporting threat mitigation measures, and contributing to a scenario exercising programme to prevent customer harm. The role also involves championing best practices and fostering resilient processes and technologies to mitigate disruptions.
About the role
* Design and implement increasingly complex scenario exercises, identifying risks to important business services
* Prepare and maintain governance documentation before and after exercises
* Drive continuous improvement and track remediation of findings and vulnerabilities
* Design the annual complex Group-wide operational resilience exercise, including all entities
* Maintain high-level knowledge of business, technical, and operational dependencies to support effective exercise design
* Deliver clear reports and present progress to senior leadership using broad data sets
* Ensure resilience risks are raised and tracked according to Group risk management framework
* Collaborate with stakeholders and functions to build strong relationships
About you
Technical skills:
* Subject matter expert with operational experience in Operational Resilience testing and exercising
* Understanding of best practices in Business Continuity
* Knowledge of Financial Services regulatory expectations for Operational Resilience (Central Bank of Ireland, FCA, PRA)
* Proven ability to design, plan, and execute scenario test programmes related to Operational Resilience
* Over 3 years’ experience managing/executing Operational Resilience exercises in regulated organizations
* Experience mentoring junior colleagues in Resilience
Qualifications/Knowledge:
* Track record of implementing Operational Resilience regulatory requirements
* Deep knowledge of operational areas (operations, finance, technology, supply chain, property, information security)
* Experience working in enterprise-scale IT organizations within financial services or similar regulated industries
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 is to work in an inclusive, responsible, enjoyable, and fulfilling environment, underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values: Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve.
We offer great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays, up to 14% employer matching pension scheme, and private medical insurance. See all our benefits here - Our Benefits
Inclusion, diversity, and belonging
We’re an inclusive employer that celebrates and values diverse backgrounds and cultures. Our diverse perspectives enhance our skills and are recognized and respected, regardless of background.
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