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OperationsStrategyAnalyst

London, United Kingdom FULL TIME
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Operations Strategy Analyst. Skills: resilience strategy, Operational Recovery Planning, Incident Management, governance, risk, control frameworks, assurance activity, project management, stakeholder coordination. Develop, implement, and maintain an effective resilience strategy and Operational Recovery Planning and Incident Management framework. Socialisation and implementation of the resilience strategy and underpinning framework”

What You'll Achieve.

enable the bank to respond and recover important business services to severe but plausible scenarios, and minimise the impact to customers, clients, colleagues and the wider market; ensure Important Business Services can continue to operate during disruption events to minimise the impact on customers, clients and the market; enable Important Business Services to remain within or mitigate impact tolerance thresholds; enable effective investment decisions to the Board and Executive Committees, Control Forums and business stakeholders; demonstrate Important Business Services’ ability to recover within impact tolerance for a severe but plausible scenario; drive continuous improvement through assurance activity, training, and governance; ensure that processes, documentation, and controls meet internal standards and withstand regulatory and statutory scrutiny

Industry & Context.

Problems you'll solve

Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc). to solve problems creatively and effectively

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

understanding of governance, risk, and control frameworks, with the ability to identify gaps in process adherence, quality assurance, and evidential record keeping, Experience in training, process testing, exercises, and assurance activity to validate operational readiness and staff competency, Demonstrated project management capability, including stakeholder coordination, tracking deliverables, and delivering sustainable operational improvements

Nice to Have

Experience with supporting or conducting TECHEVAL/OPEVAL type assessments, inspections, or assurance reviews, Solid understanding of evidential integrity, documentation standards, and auditability for regulatory and legal scrutiny, Familiarity with statutory inspections from government-appointed bodies, including maintaining documentation to support audit, review, or investigative activity

What You'll Do.

and maintain an effective resilience strategy and Operational Recovery Planning and Incident Management framework

Socialisation and implementation of the resilience strategy and underpinning framework

Development and enhancement of the resilience

crisis and incident management framework

Operational Recovery Planning and Security Incident Management planning standards and controls enhancement

Provide oversight to the business and technology recovery capability improvements

and uplifts to third-party recovery capabilities

Communication of the firm’s / business’ resilience position

Enhancement of resilience

crisis management and incident response and recovery capability through sophisticated

regular and adequate testing coverage

Assurance that services and products are built resiliently by the business through the change management process

Continually remain abreast of resilience and crisis and incident management developments

regulatory policy requirements and the emerging landscape

Mitigation of the impact of unexpected incidents by identifying

responding to and enabling the resolution of events

Execution of responses to reported incidents and potential threats

Documentation and analysis of past prioritised incident details

the steps to resolution and the lessons learnt

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions; Lead a team performing complex tasks; lead collaborative assignments and guide team members; Consult on complex providing advice to People Leaders; Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas; Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas; Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information; Communicate complex information; Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes; Working closely with operational, technical, and risk stakeholders

Communication Scope

Communication of the firm’s / business’ resilience position (risks and remediation) through clear and transparent scorecards / dashboards; Communicate complex information

Process & Methodology

Demonstrated project management capability, stakeholder coordination, tracking deliverables, delivering sustainable operational improvements

Full Job Description

# **Job Description** **Purpose of the role** To develop, implement, and maintain an effective resilience strategy and Operational Recovery Planning and Incident Management framework aligned to industry leading standards and controls and regulatory expectations, to enable the bank to respond and recover important business services to severe but plausible scenarios, and minimise the impact to customers, clients, colleagues and the wider market. **Accountabilities** * Socialisation and implementation of the resilience strategy and underpinning framework across the firm (e.g. SMRs and delegates, business / function resilience role owners and all colleagues), ensuring complaince to the standard and controls. * Development and enhancement of the resilience, crisis and incident management framework to uplift recovery and response capabilities to ensure Important Business Services can continue to operate during disruption events to minimise the impact on customers, clients and the market. * Operational Recovery Planning and Security Incident Management planning standards and controls enhancement according to industry practice, emerging threats and regulatory requirements. * Provide oversight to the business and technology recovery capability improvements, and uplifts to third-party (suppliers and Financial Market Infrastructure) recovery capabilities to enable Important Business Services to remain within or mitigate impact tolerance thresholds. * Communication of the firm’s / business’ resilience position (risks and remediation) through clear and transparent scorecards / dashboards to enable effective investment decisions to the Board and Executive Committees, Control Forums and business stakeholders. * Enhancement of resilience, crisis management and incident response and recovery capability through sophisticated, regular and adequate testing coverage to demonstrate Important Business Services’ ability to recover within impact tolerance for a severe but plausible scenario

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