Lead delivery of the Operational Resilience lifecycle for market‑critical services, including IBS/IBP identification, impact tolerance (ITOL) setting, mapping, scenario testing and ongoing remediation.
Act as a technical subject matter expert on FCA/PRA Operational Resilience requirements (PS21/3, SS1/21), providing credible challenge and pragmatic guidance to senior leaders.
Support and challenge IBS and IBP Owners to ensure services and processes are precisely defined, appropriately scoped and maintained in line with regulatory expectations.
Ensure detailed, end‑to‑end mapping of dependencies across people, technology, places, data and supply chain, with a clear understanding of markets infrastructure, platforms and third‑party dependencies.
Identify, assess and take ownership for addressing material resilience vulnerabilities, including weaknesses in controls, tolerances or recovery capabilities, ensuring robust remediation plans are agreed and tracked.
Design and coordinate severe but plausible scenario testing, assessing disruption impacts to market‑critical services and using outcomes to drive sustainable control improvement.
Produce high‑quality, technically robust MI and analysis for senior governance forums and regulatory engagement, clearly articulating risks, vulnerabilities and resilience outcomes.

At least 2 years’ experience working with FCA/PRA Operational Resilience regulations (PS21/3 and SS1/21), including scoping Important Business Services, setting impact tolerances and testing severe but plausible scenarios.
Certificate of the Business Continuity Institute (CBCI) as a minimum.
2+ years’ hands‑on experience working within Financial or Capital Markets environments, supporting market‑critical services, platforms or processes (e.g. trading, clearing, settlement, treasury, markets technology or infrastructure) in a regulated setting.
Strong working knowledge of Operational Resilience concepts and lifecycle activities, with practical experience across key lifecycle components including mapping and scenario testing.
Proven experience providing independent, control‑focused challenge while working effectively with senior leaders.
Experience using Operational Resilience or risk tooling to support analysis, reporting and governance activity.
Any experience of integrating Operational Resilience into wider risk, control or assurance activity would be useful.

Risk Manager – Operational Resilience

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