Business Continuity and Operational resilience consultant Job in City of London, London

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Business Continuity and Operational resilience consultant Job in City of London, London

Job Description
Business Continuity and Operational resilience Consultant for a leading asset management bank.

Hybrid working model (offices based in the City of London)

£750 a day contract (Umbrella)

MUST:

Have worked in Asset Management within a Bank

Experience with Business Continuity and Operational resilience within a Bank

This is a 1st line role within the business which will focus on maintaining and improving the banks EMEA operational resilience frameworks, governance, regulatory deliverables etc, ensuring the ability to safeguard the banks EMEA's legal entities, clients and assets. This support role has a broad remit across various departments / teams and therefore good communication skills are essential as is good IT skills, Power BI, Excel, PowerPoint and Database used for analysis, documentation, testing and reporting purposes. Working as part of a team;

Co-ordinate the Resiliency and Business Continuity testing programmes covering internal and external activities, and assessing the adequacy of the required response and recovery actions for Important Business Services within the banks EMEA.
Co-ordinate the Important Business Services Value-Chain resource monitoring, keeping record systems up-to-date on annual review or material change, and assessing the adequacy and inter-connectivity of the required recovery strategies for Important Business Services within the banks EMEA.
Develops appropriate 'severe but plausible' scenario test plans for Important Business Services and for Business Continuity exercising, in collaboration with the defined catalogue.
Co-ordinate / collaborate across business teams to ensure Corporate annual Business Continuity testing requirements are met and delivered on time.
Takes a new perspective on existing solutions.
Exercises judgement based on analysis of multiple sources of information.
Identifies resiliency gaps based on scenario testing results and outcomes, escalates vulnerabilities and suggests remediation activities.
Contributes to ensuring maturity lifecycle of operational resilience regulation, so it is applied robustly across the business, including implementations, impact assessments, delivery and reporting.
Co-ordinate small projects / programmes of work to address resilience gaps or weaknesses identified, which have manageable risks and resource requirements.
Contribute to the development of business continuity plans in line with the standards and corporate guidance.
Contributes to the planning and execution of Operational Resilience training and awareness activities.
Ensures compliance with the banks Corporate Operational Resilience and Business Continuity frameworks, procedures and guidelines together with all relevant regulatory requirements and where appropriate implementing actions to protect the business.Knowledge / Skills:

Good knowledge of: Operational Resilience regulatory framework including consultation papers covering Important Business Services; Business Continuity; Disaster Recovery; corporate risk policies and standards.
Requires expanded conceptual knowledge in own job discipline.
Background in operational and IT practices including integrated testing.
Good understanding of risk management practices including cyber security and how they apply in financial services organisations.
Accustomed to data analytics tools and reporting (including Power BI)
Understands key business drivers; uses this understanding to accomplish own work, with ability to drive to execution.
Initiation of thought process and ability to work independently.
Ability to be solution oriented, drive and think outside the box
Good collaboration an communication skills.
Explains complex information to others in straightforward situations.Experience:

Ideally around 5 years-experience in BCP, controls assurance, testing, business, operational risk or operational Resilience, or similar setting

Job Type: Contract, Full Time
Location: City of London, London
Category: Accounting/Financial/Insurance
City: City of London
County: City and County of the City of London
Country: United Kingdom
Salary: £750/day
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