Resilience Analyst

Royal London; Alderley Edge; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Royal London's Resilience Management Office as a Resilience Analyst, where you will coordinate and enhance the operational resilience framework across the group. This hybrid role demands strong communication skills and deep understanding of regulatory frameworks to safeguard the organization's critical business services. Work alongside diverse stakeholders to ensure effective governance and representation of resilience activities.

Benefits

28 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Up to 14% employer matching pension scheme

Private medical insurance

Qualifications

• Detailed understanding of regulatory priorities in financial services.
• Ability to communicate effectively at an executive level.
• Experience in enterprise-scale organizations within regulated industries.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and manage the Resilience timetable.
• Ensure documentation and governance packs are created and retained.
• Analyze evidence from Pillar owners to maintain robust metrics.

Skills

Regulatory understanding

Excellent communication skills

Stakeholder engagement

Analytical skills

Education

Understanding of financial services regulatory framework

Basic understanding of Business Continuity Planning

Job description

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Resilience Analyst

Company: Royal London Group

Job Title: Resilience Analyst

Location: Edinburgh or Glasgow, or Alderley Park (Wilmslow)

Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based

Overview:

We have an exciting opportunity for a Resilience Analyst to join our Resilience Management Office Team at Royal London. Working closely with operational leaders from across all entities within the business, the Resilience Analyst will work to support the maintenance of the Group’s Operational Resilience lifecycle. The role is central to ensuring a robust governance structure is in place for all Operational Resilience activities.

The purpose of the team is to protect the Group from external and internal threats and continually calibrates the Group’s Important Business Services (IBS) and impact tolerances accordingly. The primary objective of this function is to ensure that the Group has an adequate framework in place to oversee operational resilience and ensure that the Group can take informed decisions in respect of actions and investments to improve its resilience.

About the role:

Coordination and ownership of the Resilience timetable, ensuring all roles conduct activities in line with requirements

Ensuring that all artefacts and documentation are in place and retained appropriately

Ensuring that governance packs and documentation is produced and retained in line with expectation

Providing guidance to stakeholders required to utilise tools and templates provided by the Resilience Management Office

Working closely with the Resilience Testing Lead monitor findings relating to Operational Resilience following scenario exercises

Ownership of the day-to-day management and tracking of Operational Resilience vulnerabilities, ensuring evidence is in place and that updates are provide to the relevant governance groups and committees

Responsible for undertaking analysis of the evidence provided by the Pillar owners, to support individual metrics, to ensure metrics are robust and accurate records are maintained

Supporting on attendance at third party site visits, both virtual and physical, and the creation of subsequent site visit reports

About you:

A detailed understanding of the regulatory priorities

Knowledge of the financial services industry, how our business operates and the legislative/regulatory framework

Understanding of service resilience design and execution

Basic understanding of Business Continuity Planning and IT Disaster Recovery

Experience of dealing with process / organisational change

Experience of working in enterprise-scale organisations in financial services or similarly regulated industry

A passion for designing resilience into everything we do

Ability to communicate at an executive level and produce reports suitable for consumption at an executive level

Excellent communication skills with an ability to significantly influence senior and executive business leaders.

If you think you would be a great fit for our data team at Royal London but don’t meet all the requirements of the role, please get in touch as your application will still be considered.

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 to our colleagues is that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve.

We've always been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays, an up to 14% employer matching pension scheme and private medical insurance. You can see all our benefits here - Our Benefits

Inclusion, diversity and belonging

We’re an Inclusive employer. We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across Royal London. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected – whatever their background.