Testing and Exercising Analyst

Quilter plc; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Quilter plc is seeking a Testing and Exercising Analyst to join the Resilience and Crisis Team in London or Southampton. The role focuses on analysing resilience data to guide testing priorities, coordinating exercise preparation and delivering clear management information.

You will build and maintain evidence, dashboards and records while coordinating with business owners, technology, risk and other stakeholders to drive timely remediation and improvements.

Qualifications

• Experience analysing qualitative and quantitative information from multiple sources and presenting evidence-based findings.
• Strong attention to detail with ability to maintain accurate records, evidence, actions and audit trails.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills for concise reports and management information.

Responsibilities

• Maintain current view of testing coverage across Important Business Services, resilience domains, impact tolerance severity, CMORG requirements and key dependencies.
• Analyse data to identify gaps, anomalies, recurring themes and opportunities for targeted testing, prioritised by risk and coverage.
• Produce testing management information, dashboards and evidence with findings and required actions.
• Coordinate exercise preparation, stakeholders, schedules, materials, logistics and data.
• Record decisions, observations, issues and learning; track remediation actions and governance.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Attention to detail

Planning & coordination

Communication skills

Data analysis

Education

Relevant professional qualifications

Tools

Excel

Power BI

Job description

## Testing and Exercising AnalystApply: London: Southampton: Full time: Posted Today: End Date: November 6, 2026 (14 days left to apply): R5767# ****About the Business****Quilter plc is a leading wealth management business, helping to enable brighter financial futures for every generation. Quilter oversees £157.4 billion in customer investments (as of August 2026). It has an adviser and customer offering spanning financial advice, investment platforms, multi-asset investment solutions, and discretionary fund management. The business is comprised of two segments: Affluent and High Net Worth. Affluent encompasses the financial planning business, Quilter Financial Planning, the Quilter Investment Platform and Quilter Investors, the multi-asset investment solutions business. High Net Worth includes the discretionary fund management business, Quilter Cheviot, together with Quilter Cheviot Financial Planning – offering a highly personalised service to private clients, charities, trustees, and professional partners. Quilter Cheviot has presence throughout the UK, Ireland and Channel Islands. At Quilter we never stand still. Our foundations are rooted in our extraordinary expertise, which is trusted by hundreds of thousands of customers, but we have great ambitions to stay one step ahead and make an even greater difference to the people and communities we serve, including our colleagues. Our business is transforming, continually modernising, and becoming even more customer centric. So, if you want to be bold in the pursuit of your ambitions, bring new ideas, and challenge and evolve what we do, it’s the perfect time to join us!# ****About the Role**** Level: 3Department: Information SecurityLocation: London, United Kingdom or Southampton, United KingdomContract Type: PermanentRegulated/Non-Regulated: Non-Regulated The Testing and Exercising Analyst sits within Quilter’s Resilience and Crisis Team (RCT), using resilience data to identify testing priorities and produce clear management information. The role also coordinates exercise preparation, delivery and follow-up, including maintaining records, capturing learning and tracking actions. The Testing and Exercising Specialist owns the methodology, programme and scenario design, while the Analyst provides the analysis, coordination and evidence needed to deliver them effectively. **Key responsibilities:*** Maintain a current view of testing coverage across Important Business Services, resilience domains, impact tolerance severity, CMORG requirements and key dependencies.* Analyse operational resilience mapping, dependency, vulnerability, incident and previous exercise data to identify gaps, anomalies, recurring themes and opportunities for targeted testing, prioritised by risk, impact, recurrence and coverage.* Produce accurate testing management information, dashboards and evidence that clearly set out findings, limitations and required actions.* Support exercise preparation by coordinating stakeholders, schedules, materials, logistics, data and supporting documentation.* Support exercise delivery by maintaining an accurate record of decisions, observations, issues, evidence and key learning.* Support debriefs and post-exercise reporting by collating evidence, analysing outcomes and helping translate findings into clear, measurable actions.* Record exercises, findings and actions in Resolver or other agreed systems, monitor progress and escalate overdue or material remediation through agreed governance routes.* Responsible for ensuring the timely completion of remediation actions from action owners.* Undertake trend and thematic analysis across exercises, incidents, findings and actions, challenging assumptions and assessing data quality to identify systemic weaknesses and recommend proportionate maturity improvements.* Help maintain testing records, templates, guidance and audit trails in line with the methodology owned by the Testing and Exercising Specialist.* Build effective relationships with business owners, Operational Resilience Specialists, Technology, Cyber, Risk, Threat Intelligence and other relevant stakeholders.* Participate in the RCT on-call arrangements, subject to appropriate training and competence, and support crisis response and wider RCT priorities when required.# ****About You**** You will be organised, analytical and curious, with the confidence to work across different teams and turn complex information into clear insights and actions. You do not need to be a testing specialist, as the role provides opportunities to develop your operational resilience and exercising expertise. **Essential*** Experience of analysing qualitative and quantitative information from multiple sources and presenting balanced, evidence-based findings, trends and recommendations.* Strong attention to detail and the ability to maintain accurate records, evidence, actions and audit trails.* Good planning, coordination and time-management skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities and meet deadlines.* Clear written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to produce concise reports and management information that explain what the evidence shows, what it does not show, why it matters and what action should follow for different audiences.* Confidence working with data, spreadsheets, dashboards or reporting tools to identify patterns, anomalies, gaps and themes, recognise data-quality limitations and avoid unsupported conclusions.* Excel capability and experience using Power BI or similar data-visualisation tools.* Ability to build constructive relationships with business, technology, risk and specialist stakeholders and to follow up actions appropriately.* A proactive, investigative and critical-thinking mindset, with sound judgement and the ability to test assumptions, distinguish symptoms from root causes and challenge information constructively.* Ability to work independently while collaborating closely with colleagues and seeking guidance where decisions sit with the Testing and Exercising Specialist or RCT Manager. **Desirable*** Experience supporting exercises, incidents, operational resilience, business continuity, risk, assurance or similar activities.* Knowledge of operational resilience concepts and financial-services regulatory expectations.* Relevant professional qualifications or equivalent practical experience gained in financial services, a corporate environment, the public sector, military, law enforcement or government.*#LI-*IC1