Operational Resilience Manager, Testing
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- England,London,City of London
- Full Time, Permanent
- Salary negotiable
Job Description:
Full job descriptionOperational Resilience Manager - Testing
Location: Bristol or London
Hybrid Working Available
The OpportunityOliver James has partnered with a leading UK financial services organisation to recruit an Operational Resilience Manager - Testing. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in strengthening the organisation’s operational resilience framework, ensuring critical business services can respond to, adapt to and recover from disruption.
You’ll lead the end-to-end delivery of operational resilience testing, working closely with senior stakeholders across the business to develop testing methodologies, execute resilience exercises, and drive continuous improvement. This is a highly visible role offering exposure across technology, operations, risk and business functions, with the opportunity to influence resilience strategy in line with UK regulatory expectations.
Key Responsibilities*Lead the planning, coordination and delivery of the annual Operational Resilience testing programme.
*Develop and continuously enhance scenario testing methodologies and maintain a comprehensive testing scenario library.
*Deliver Important Business Service (IBS) testing in collaboration with business and technology stakeholders.
*Support and oversee wider resilience exercises, including Business Continuity, IT Service Continuity, Cyber Resilience and Workplace Recovery testing.
*Produce post-exercise reports, identify lessons learned and drive resilience improvement initiatives.
*Contribute to Operational Resilience self-assessments, governance reporting and regulatory compliance activities.
*Work closely with operational resilience, risk, technology and business teams to ensure a joined-up approach across the resilience lifecycle.
*Support crisis and incident management activities, including participation in an out-of-hours on-call rota when required.
Skills & Experience Required*Proven experience in an Operational Resilience role within Financial Services.
*Strong knowledge of Operational Resilience frameworks, scenario testing and regulatory expectations.
*Experience delivering resilience testing programmes across business and technology functions.
*Familiarity with Crisis Management, Incident Management and Business Continuity planning.
*Good understanding of UK regulatory requirements, including PRA/FCA Operational Resilience guidance. Exposure to DORA would be advantageous.
*Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence across multiple business areas.
*Excellent analytical, planning and problem-solving capabilities.
*Experience managing cross-functional initiatives and driving continuous improvement.
*Degree-qualified in Business, Risk, Finance or a related discipline is desirable.
Location: Bristol or London
Hybrid Working Available
The OpportunityOliver James has partnered with a leading UK financial services organisation to recruit an Operational Resilience Manager - Testing. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in strengthening the organisation’s operational resilience framework, ensuring critical business services can respond to, adapt to and recover from disruption.
You’ll lead the end-to-end delivery of operational resilience testing, working closely with senior stakeholders across the business to develop testing methodologies, execute resilience exercises, and drive continuous improvement. This is a highly visible role offering exposure across technology, operations, risk and business functions, with the opportunity to influence resilience strategy in line with UK regulatory expectations.
Key Responsibilities*Lead the planning, coordination and delivery of the annual Operational Resilience testing programme.
*Develop and continuously enhance scenario testing methodologies and maintain a comprehensive testing scenario library.
*Deliver Important Business Service (IBS) testing in collaboration with business and technology stakeholders.
*Support and oversee wider resilience exercises, including Business Continuity, IT Service Continuity, Cyber Resilience and Workplace Recovery testing.
*Produce post-exercise reports, identify lessons learned and drive resilience improvement initiatives.
*Contribute to Operational Resilience self-assessments, governance reporting and regulatory compliance activities.
*Work closely with operational resilience, risk, technology and business teams to ensure a joined-up approach across the resilience lifecycle.
*Support crisis and incident management activities, including participation in an out-of-hours on-call rota when required.
Skills & Experience Required*Proven experience in an Operational Resilience role within Financial Services.
*Strong knowledge of Operational Resilience frameworks, scenario testing and regulatory expectations.
*Experience delivering resilience testing programmes across business and technology functions.
*Familiarity with Crisis Management, Incident Management and Business Continuity planning.
*Good understanding of UK regulatory requirements, including PRA/FCA Operational Resilience guidance. Exposure to DORA would be advantageous.
*Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence across multiple business areas.
*Excellent analytical, planning and problem-solving capabilities.
*Experience managing cross-functional initiatives and driving continuous improvement.
*Degree-qualified in Business, Risk, Finance or a related discipline is desirable.
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