Senior Analyst, Operational Resilience | London, UK

Intercontinental Exchange; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial market infrastructure seeks a professional for operational resilience. This role involves coordinating resilience testing, engaging with regulatory authorities, and ensuring compliance with industry standards. Ideal candidates will have a strong background in risk management and business continuity, contributing to ICEU's operational stability.

Qualifications

• Experience in operational resilience and risk management.
• Familiarity with regulatory frameworks like DORA.
• Strong analytical and organizational skills.

Responsibilities

• Organize and develop resilience testing programs.
• Coordinate participation in regulatory-led exercises.
• Document test results and propose enhancements.

Skills

Coordination

Risk Management

Business Continuity

Regulatory Compliance

Education

Degree in Finance, Risk Management, or related field

Job description

Job Purpose

To coordinate and support various aspects of ICE Clear Europe's (ICEU) operational resilience framework. As a financial market infrastructure providing clearing services to global ICE exchanges and Clearing Members, ICEU clears several million derivative contracts daily across multiple asset classes (energy, interest rates, equities, and agriculture). Ensuring ICEU's resilience to and recovery from service disruption events is vital.

The role reports to ICEU's Senior Manager, Operational Resilience, and works closely with ICEU's Chief Operating Officer. It requires extensive engagement and coordination with ICEU's Senior Management Team, critical first-line teams such as Risk, Treasury, and Operations, the second-line risk oversight team, and wider ICE group functions like Technology, Information Security, Business Continuity, and Third-Party Risk Management.

Responsibilities include coordinating routine reviews of ICEU policies and procedures, planning, executing, and documenting extreme but plausible testing exercises, reporting results and proposed enhancements to ICEU's Senior Management and Board, and engaging with ICEU's regulatory authorities where appropriate.

Responsibilities

• Organize, plan, and develop the ongoing resilience testing program, including physical exercises of business continuity and disaster recovery arrangements, crisis management, and scenario-based exercises.
• Coordinate ICEU's participation in relevant regulatory-led or industry-wide exercises.
• Document test results, lessons learned, and identify new risks and vulnerabilities, developing and executing mitigation or remediation plans.
• Perform critical reviews of the resilience framework in liaison with risk teams to propose and implement enhancements aligned with industry best practices.
• Coordinate annual reviews of the framework to ensure business services, impact tolerances, and test scenarios remain appropriate, and dependency mapping is documented.
• Review related ICEU policies and procedures, such as Operational Risk & Resilience, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Outsourcing, and Third-Party Risk Management.
• Support first-line teams to ensure business continuity plans align with policies and best practices.
• Assist with risk assessments of third-party service providers and resilience testing.
• Engage with ICEU's regulatory authorities, contributing to assessments of compliance with regulations like the Bank of England's Operational Resilience Supervisory Policy and the EU's Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA).