Resilience Business Analyst
Posted 7 days ago by GIOS Technology
Negotiable
Undetermined
Onsite
Knutsford, England, United Kingdom
Summary: This role seeks a Resilience Business Analyst to lead the design and optimization of resilience processes within a financial services context. The position requires a strategic thinker who can integrate business architecture with operational resilience, ensuring alignment with risk management frameworks. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in financial services and a strong understanding of resilience frameworks. The role is based in Knutsford, UK, and involves a significant on-site presence.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the design and continuous improvement of the full resilience lifecycle, including BSRP creation, invocation, monitoring, and exit.
- Map resilience processes to business capabilities, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture principles.
- Identify opportunities to streamline and automate resilience processes, improving accuracy and usability.
- Ensure alignment of resilience processes with broader risk and control frameworks, including regulatory expectations.
- Collaborate with business service owners, risk leads, and technical SMEs to embed resilience processes in BAU and crisis operations.
- Use feedback from resilience events to refine processes and enhance organizational readiness.
Key Skills:
- Proven experience in operational resilience, business architecture, or risk management within financial services.
- Deep understanding of BSRPs, self-assessments, and their role in regulatory frameworks.
- Strong process design and optimization skills, with a track record of simplifying complex workflows.
- Ability to work across business and technical domains, translating resilience needs into actionable plans.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with experience engaging senior leadership.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Knutsford
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: on-site
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
We are looking for Resilience Business Analyst for our client's project based at Knutsford/Glasgow, UK– 3 days per week Onsite
Role Summary: This role is designed for a strategic thinker and delivery expert who can bridge business architecture with operational resilience. The Resilience Delivery Lead will be responsible for shaping and optimising the end-to-end lifecycle of resilience processes—from Business Service Response Plans (BSRPs) through to self-assessments. The ideal candidate will bring deep experience in financial services, with a strong grasp of how resilience frameworks integrate with business operations and risk management.
Key Responsibilities:
- End-to-End Resilience Process Design: Lead the design and continuous improvement of the full resilience lifecycle, including BSRP creation, invocation, monitoring, and exit, as well as integration with self-assessment cycles.
- Business Architecture Alignment: Map resilience processes to business capabilities, ensuring that resilience is embedded into the operating model and aligned with enterprise architecture principles.
- Process Simplification & Automation: Identify opportunities to streamline and automate resilience processes, reducing manual effort while improving accuracy, traceability, and usability.
- Governance & Integration: Ensure that resilience processes are aligned with broader risk and control frameworks, including regulatory expectations and internal audit requirements.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with business service owners, risk leads, and technical SMEs to ensure resilience processes are practical, scalable, and embedded in BAU and crisis operations.
- Continuous Improvement: Use feedback from real-world resilience events and exercises to refine processes and improve readiness across the organisation.
Required Skills & Experience:
- Proven experience in operational resilience, business architecture, or risk management within financial services.
- Deep understanding of BSRPs, self-assessments, and their role in regulatory and operational resilience frameworks.
- Strong process design and optimisation skills, with a track record of simplifying complex workflows.
- Ability to work across business and technical domains, translating resilience needs into actionable architecture and delivery plans.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with experience engaging senior leadership and cross-functional teams.