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About the role
- Operational Resilience Risk Manager providing oversight on operational resilience and IT disaster recovery at financial services firm. Collaborating with first line to ensure compliance and risk management.
Responsibilities
- Provide independent second line oversight of the first line’s delivery of operational resilience, including business continuity, technology resilience, and IT disaster recovery.
- Provide second line risk opinion on resilience capabilities, identifying material weaknesses, gaps in control design, and areas requiring remediation.
- Challenge the first line’s identification, assessment, and treatment of resilience related risks, ensuring alignment with the Non Financial Risk Framework.
- Support the effective operation of the Non Financial Risk Framework, including RCSAs, issues and events, controls, scenarios, and risk appetite monitoring.
- Review the strength and appropriateness of Non Financial Risk controls across all areas of Operational Resilience.
- Draft high quality, insightful input for risk reporting, governance committees, and senior management forums.
- Provide risk business partnering to First Line and contribute to risk and governance fora with clear, evidence based challenge.
- Maintain effective relationships between the first line and the broader Non-Financial Risk function, engaging with wider Risk teams as required.
- Support the operation and maintenance of MetricStream (GRC tool), assisting with data analysis and delivering periodic reporting.
- Contribute to and/or lead selected assurance reviews, thematic deep dives, and targeted testing of resilience capabilities.
Requirements
- Experience in oversight of operational resilience, technology risk or IT disaster recovery, preferably within financial services or regulated organisations. (essential)
- Good understanding of regulatory requirements (PRA, FCA, DORA) and best practice industry standards. (essential)
- Ability to interpret and challenge resilience metrics, impact tolerances, and scenario testing outcomes relating to important business services. (essential)
- Able to constructively challenge the first line in their identification and assessment of key risks, and in the design and operation of controls. (essential)
- Good understanding of the risk environment facing M&G plc or similar financial organisations.
- Strong analytical and communications skills with the ability to distil complex technical information into clear insights.
- Ability to operate as part of a team, but also independently with minimal supervision.
- Relevant professional qualifications desirable (eg CBCI, CRISC, CISSP).
Benefits
- As a savings and Investments firm we are proud to offer a valuable pension scheme of 18%, with 13% made up of Employer Contributions and 5% Employee Contributions.
- We also offer Share Save and our Share Incentive Plan, together with access to financial wellbeing and support services - to help give you real confidence to put your money to work.
- Enjoy 38 days annual leave including bank holidays, with the opportunity to purchase up to 5 extra days and additional flexibility through our Time Off When You Need It policy – to balance your work and personal commitments.
- Our market leading Inspiring Families policy includes comprehensive support and paid parental leave covering maternity, adoption, surrogacy, and paternity leave - as supporting families is a core aspect of our inclusive culture.
- Health & Protection cover including Private Healthcare, Critical Illness cover and Life Assurance for you, with family options - for peace of mind.
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