Full job descriptionOperational Resilience Governance Manager - Contract
Contract: 2 months initially (extension likely)
IR35: Inside
Rate: TBC
Location: 2 days per week in London or Bristol
The client
A UK specialist retail bank is looking for an experienced Operational Resilience Governance Manager to join its first-line Operational Resilience team. The role sits within the Identify & Prepare pillar and owns governance, oversight, reporting and engagement across the resilience framework.
The role
*Maintain the UK Operational Resilience policy and framework, working with Group and Second Line teams
*Own templates, artefacts and methodology standards
*Run the UK Operational Resilience Forum and produce MI and reporting that supports decision-making
*Embed resilience-by-design into change, including oversight of high-risk change and its impact on Important Business Services
*Maintain controls, assurance activity, risks and issues, feeding updates into UK risk teams
*Lead horizon scanning, regulatory engagement and information requests
*Represent the bank at industry forums such as UK Finance’s Operational Resilience Committee
*Deliver training and awareness sessions across the business, and manage internal Op Res comms
*Line manage a Senior Analyst
What you’ll bring
*Strong, hands-on operational resilience experience within UK financial services
*Solid working knowledge of the PRA/FCA operational resilience regime, with exposure to DORA
*Experience running governance forums, producing resilience MI and working with Second Line
*Confident stakeholder management across Operations, IT, Risk, Change and senior leadership