Senior Resilience & Risk Assurance Manager

GCS Recruitment; Dublin; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

GCS Recruitment in Dublin seeks a Senior Resilience & Risk Assurance Manager to lead reviews across complex organisations, shaping resilience capabilities, governance, and assurance strategies.

You will interview senior stakeholders, assess business continuity, crisis management, and risk controls, and mentor junior colleagues while contributing to resilience standards.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in operational resilience, risk management, governance, audit, assurance, compliance, or business continuity.

Responsibilities

• Lead resilience and risk assurance reviews across complex organisations.
• Assess business continuity, crisis management, recovery, and resilience capabilities.
• Evaluate governance structures, policies, processes, and control effectiveness.
• Identify operational, technology, and organisational risks.
• Produce findings, recommendations, and remediation requirements.
• Conduct interviews, workshops, and assessments with senior stakeholders.
• Support organisational resilience strategy and risk management activities.
• Contribute to the development of resilience standards, methodologies, and assurance approaches.
• Provide guidance on resilience best practice and risk mitigation.
• Mentor junior team members and support capability development.

Skills

Operational resilience

Risk management

Governance

Audit & assurance

Business continuity

Stakeholder influence

Analytical & reporting

Job description

Senior Resilience & Risk Assurance Manager

Dublin - Permanent

Overview

A senior opportunity for an experienced resilience and risk professional to join a growing team responsible for assessing, challenging, and improving resilience capabilities across complex organisations.

The role focuses on evaluating how organisations prepare for, respond to, and recover from major disruptions. The successful candidate will conduct assurance reviews, assess resilience frameworks, identify risks and control gaps, and provide strategic recommendations to senior stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead resilience and risk assurance reviews across complex organisations.
• Assess business continuity, crisis management, recovery, and resilience capabilities.
• Evaluate governance structures, policies, processes, and control effectiveness.
• Identify operational, technology, and organisational risks.
• Produce findings, recommendations, and remediation requirements.
• Conduct interviews, workshops, and assessments with senior stakeholders.
• Support organisational resilience strategy and risk management activities.
• Contribute to the development of resilience standards, methodologies, and assurance approaches.
• Provide guidance on resilience best practice and risk mitigation.
• Mentor junior team members and support capability development.

Required Experience

• Significant experience in operational resilience, risk management, governance, audit, assurance, compliance, or business continuity.
• Experience assessing risk and control environments.
• Strong understanding of resilience frameworks and risk-based methodologies.
• Experience conducting audits, reviews, assessments, or assurance activities.
• Ability to influence and challenge senior stakeholders.
• Strong analytical, reporting, and communication skills.

Desirable Experience

• Technology Risk, Cyber Risk, Enterprise Risk Management, Internal Audit, Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery, Crisis Management, Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC)

Certifications Nice to have:

CISSP, CISM, CRISC, CISA, ISO 27001 Lead Auditor, Business Continuity qualifications