Operational Resilience Officer - 1LOD - Risk - Business Continuity - Banking
Posted 2 days ago by Rothstein Recruitment Ltd
£35,000 Per year
Undetermined
Undetermined
London, UK
Summary: The Operational Resilience Officer role is designed for candidates with First Line of Defence experience in Risk, Compliance, or Regulatory teams within a Financial Services organization. This position involves managing operational resilience, business continuity, and supplier management for a growing London-based bank. The officer will support the Operational Resilience Manager in various administrative tasks and ensure compliance with operational resilience regulations. The role requires strong interpersonal and organizational skills to effectively manage incidents and documentation.
Key Responsibilities:
- Providing general administrative support to the Operational Resilience Manager.
- Manage the Operational Resilience's RAID tracker - this consists of a Risk log, Action Log, Issue Log, and Decision Log. Ensure that items are tracked through to resolution.
- Creation and management of Operational Resilience Management Information.
- Ensuring that testing is conducted in a timely manner.
- Support in maintaining and updating operational resilience documentation, including policies and procedures, scenario testing records.
- Maintain the Supplier Register.
- Supporting the onboarding and ongoing management of third-party suppliers, including due diligence, reviews and service reviews.
- Support the Operational Resilience Manager in administration of incidents, including maintaining the incident log and tracking actions through to resolution.
- Support the business continuity programme from an administrative perspective, including ensuring testing is conducted in a timely manner, and testing is documented.
- Track issues and risks identified within BCP through to resolution.
- Coordinate scheduling of system access reviews.
- Support the Operational Resilience Manager in holding the access reviews, including taking minutes and conducting administrative tasks, such as capturing actions and tracking these to resolution.
Key Skills:
- Demonstrable experience within a risk, compliance or regulatory first line function.
- Knowledge and understanding of Operational Resilience regulation.
- Exposure to financial services regulation (PRA and FCA).
- Experience of third-party supplier management.
- Previous experience of working within a regulated environment or banking operations.
- Educated to A-level (or equivalent).
- Banking certification or qualifications ideally.
- Strong interpersonal skills.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to innovate and adapt.
- Able to work under pressure and deliver to agreed timelines.
- Highly organised and methodical approach to work.
Salary (Rate): £35,000 yearly
City: London
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Operational Resilience Officer - 1LOD - Risk - Business Continuity - Banking
Excellent opportunity opens for an Operational Resilience Officer with good 1LOD experience in either Risk, Compliance or Regulatory teams within a Financial Services Organisation to join a growing London-based Bank. The Operational Resilience Officer will provide expert First Line of Defence management, ensuring that the Bank maintains a strong posture regarding its operational resilience, encompassing responsibility for business continuity also.
Primary job duties and responsibilities:
- Providing general administrative support to the Operational Resilience Manager.
- Manage the Operational Resilience's RAID tracker - this consists of a Risk log, Action Log, Issue Log, and Decision Log.Ensure that items are tracked through to resolution.
Operational Resilience
- Creation and management of Operational Resilience Management Information.
- Ensuring that testing is conducted in a timely manner.
- Support in maintaining and updating operational resilience documentation, including policies and procedures, scenario testing records.
Supplier Management
- Maintain the Supplier Register.
- Supporting the onboarding and ongoing management of third-party suppliers, including due diligence, reviews and service reviews.
Incident management
- Support the Operational Resilience Manager in administration of incidents, including maintaining the incident log and tracking actions through to resolution.
Business Continuity
- Support the business continuity programme from an administrative perspective, including ensuring testing is conducted in a timely manner, and testing is documented.
- Track issues and risks identified within BCP through to resolution.
Access Management
- Coordinate scheduling of system access reviews.
- Support the Operational Resilience Manager in holding the access reviews, including taking minutes and conducting administrative tasks, such as capturing actions and tracking these to resolution.
Experience
- Demonstrable experience within a risk, compliance or regulatory first line function.
- Knowledge and understanding of Operational Resilience regulation.
- Exposure to financial services regulation (PRA and FCA).
- Experience of third-party supplier management.
- Previous experience of working within a regulated environment or banking operations.
Qualifications
- Educated to A-level (or equivalent).
- Banking certification or qualifications ideally.
Knowledge and Skills
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to innovate and adapt.
- Able to work under pressure and deliver to agreed timelines.
- Highly organised and methodical approach to work.
Interested? Please Apply!
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