Resilience Testing Lead

Royal London; Alderley Edge; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

28 days annual leave

Employer pension matching (up to 14%)

Private medical insurance

Job summary

Royal London is seeking a Resilience Testing Lead to join the Resilience Management Office. You will define, manage and implement the Group’s operational resilience scenario testing schedule and enhance maturity of testing across important services, aligning with UK and Ireland regulations.

You will collaborate with senior leaders to drive a consistent scenario exercising approach, mitigate threats, and support regulatory deadlines while championing best practices in resilience across the

Qualifications

• In-depth knowledge of operational resilience testing and exercising.
• Understanding of best practice in business continuity.
• Experience with regulatory expectations for Operational Resilience (UK/Ireland).
• Proven ability to design, plan and execute resilience test programmes.
• 3+ years of managing resilience exercises in a regulated organisation.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement complex resilience exercises across Group services.
• Produce governance documentation for exercises (pre/post).
• Drive improvements and track remediation of findings across resilience ecosystem.
• Design annual Group-wide operational resilience exercise including all entities.
• Maintain cross-functional knowledge to support exercise design.
• Deliver concise progress reports to senior leadership using broad data sets.
• Raise and track resilience risks within risk management framework.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to build strong resilience relationships.

Skills

Operational resilience testing

Business continuity

Regulatory awareness

Scenario design & execution

Mentoring juniors

Job description

“It feels good to have a career with real purpose.”

Working style: Hybrid 50% home / 50% office based

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Resilience Testing Lead to our Resilience Management Office Team at Royal London. Working closely with senior leaders and executive members from across the business, the Resilience Testing Lead will work to define, manage and implement the Group’s operational resilience scenario testing schedule. You will have specific responsibility for the ongoing enhancement and maturity of our scenario testing against Group important business services and will have an in depth and operational knowledge of Operational Resilience regulation for both the UK and Ireland.

The Resilience Lead will support the implementation of the appropriate strategies and tactics to achieve a consistent approach to scenario exercising in preparation for Operational Resilience regulatory deadlines, and this is a key role to drive towards regulatory compliance across the broader resilience ecosystem. You will also support the appropriate threat mitigation measures and feed into a scenario exercising programme to help ensure customer harm is not caused. Championing best practice and driving resilient processes and technology to mitigate the impact of a disruption to Group Pillars of Resilience.

About the role

• Design and implement scenario exercises of an increasingly complex nature, identifying risks to Group important business services
• Producing all governance documentation both in preparation for and post-exercise
• Driving continuous improvement and tracking remediation of identified findings and vulnerabilities across the Resilience ecosystem
• Design of the annual complex Group-wide operational resilience exercise, including all entities
• Maintaining a high level of business, technical and operational knowledge across the organisation, including up and downstream dependencies, to support effective exercise design
• Deliver concise reporting and presenting progress to senior leadership in an easily consumable manner, utilising broad data sets
• Ensuring that resilience risks are raised and tracked, following Group risk management framework
• Collaborate with multiple stakeholders and functions to build strong relationships

About you

Technical skills:

• A credible subject matter expert with an in-depth knowledge and operational experience of Operational Resilience testing and exercising
• An understanding of best practice in Business Continuity
• Operational Resilience experience and understanding of Financial Services regulatory expectations for Operational Resilience across the Central bank of Ireland, FCA and PRA
• Proven ability in designing, planning and executing scenario test programmes relating to Operational Resilience
• Evidence more than 3 years’ experience of managing/executing Operational Resilience exercises within a complex regulated organisation
• Experience of providing mentoring/coaching to junior colleagues in the Resilience field

Qualifications/Knowledge

• Proven track record of implementing areas of Operational resilience regulatory requirements
• In depth knowledge of operational functional areas (operations / finance/ technology/ supply chain/ property/ information security)
• Experience of working in enterprise-scale IT organisations in financial services or similarly regulated industry

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.

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.

Only candidates who have the legal right to work in the UK or Ireland can undertake this role.
Unfortunately, Royal London is unable to provide visa or work permit sponsorship.