Operational Resilience Associate bei Financial Conduct Authority

Operational Resilience Associate

Division – Operations – Cyber & Operational Resilience

Salary - National (Edinburgh and Leeds) ranging from £43,100 to £45,800 and London 47,300 to £50,000 per annum (Salary offered will be based on skills and experience)

About the FCA

The FCA regulates the conduct of 45,000 firms in the UK to ensure our financial markets are honest, fair and competitive. Follow this link to find out more About the FCA.

You will support the development and implementation of the FCA’s Operational Resilience framework, partnering with Important Business (IB) Service and divisional Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to implement the framework, developing and maintaining robust resilience plans across the organisation.

Operational Resilience is a strategic priority for the FCA due to several drivers including the volume of change and transformation being undertaken, resilience responsibilities under Senior Manager Regime (SMR) and the increased threat profile and market responsibility. This role is key to supporting establishment of an embedded 'Operational Resilience by Design' ethos across the FCA in business practices to reduce the risk of disruption and ultimately reduce the risk of harm to consumers and markets.

What will you be doing?

• Act as a point of contact and resilience SME for the business and functions, providing resilience and continuity advice to deliver the operational resilience framework

• Partner with business and function colleagues supporting the resilience agenda, including contingency, planning champions and SMEs

• Support maintenance of IB Services, creating and maintaining process and dependency maps and tolerance statements for each service

• Support identification and documentation of any vulnerabilities or risks that may need to be resolved to ensure continued operational resilience

• Conduct resilience due diligence assurance on third parties supporting important business services and key processes across the organisation, providing a view of risks to resilience to appropriate forums

What will you get from the role?

• The chance to stimulate new perspectives and innovative ideas to improve engagement with stakeholders

• The chance to join the dots on issues, analyse information and partner with colleagues across the FCA to ensure appropriate linkage for presentation to internal stakeholders

• The chance to maintain and share a resilience by design mindset

• Be in a role that is organisation wide, ensuring operational resilience, avoiding harm to consumers stakeholders and the financial services markets, and reputational damage to the FCA

Which skills are required?

We are a Disability Confident Employer; therefore, disabled people or individuals with long-term conditions who best meet the minimum criteria for a role will go through to the next stage of the recruitment process. (To learn more about the Disability Confident Scheme Click Here)

Minimum

• Some knowledge of Operational Resilience and the foundational role of traditional business continuity practices

• Prior experience in process analysis, improvement, change management and governance

• Awareness of risk management and controls

Essential

• Forward thinking and quick to adapt to the fast-changing digital world in the context of resilience

• Strong communications, influencing and negotiation skills to work effectively with a wide range of stakeholders

• Delivery focus and ability to coordinate deliverables to prioritise work effectively

• Networking to build relationships, challenging and supporting colleagues in the development, delivery and evaluation of context

Our Values & Diversity

We are proud to be an inclusive employer, and our ambition is to cultivate a culture for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences and similarities enable us to be a better organisation – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation, and delivers better regulation.

Within the workplace you will have access to various employee resource groups which aim to promote and achieve a healthy work / life balance and support our diversity ambitions.

Did you know? 50% of our Executive Committee were the first in their family to attend university.

Benefits of working at the FCA

• 25 days holiday per year plus bank holidays

• Hybrid working (work from home up to 60% of your time)

• Private healthcare with Bupa  

• A non-contributory Pension of at least 8% of basic salary each month (there are several contribution levels that increase depending on your age – up to 12% a month once you reach age 35)  

• Life assurance of eight times your basic salary  

• Income protection  

We also have a competitive flexible benefits scheme which gives you the opportunity to create a personalised benefits package, tailored to suit your lifestyle.

We welcome applications from candidates who are looking for flexible arrangements.  Many of our staff work flexibly including working part-time, staggered hours, and job shares.  We can’t promise to give you exactly what you want but we can explore what might work best for both sides.

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Application Support

We are dedicated to removing barriers and ensuring our application process is accessible to everyone. We offer a range of adjustments to make your application experience as comfortable and straightforward as possible.

If you have an accessibility need, disability, or condition requiring changes to the recruitment process, please contact your recruiter using the details below and they will be happy to discuss this further with you.

Useful Information and Timeline

• This role is graded as Associate

• Advert Closing Date: 14th of September

• CV Review/Shortlist: 16th and 17th of September

• Competency Based Interview: Week commencing 22nd of September

Your Recruiter will discuss the process in detail with you during screening for the role, therefore, please make them aware if you are going to be unavailable for any date during this time. 

Got a question?

If you are interested in learning more about the role, please contact: 

Riley Fox at [email protected]

Applications must be submitted through our online portal. Applications sent via email will not be accepted.