Job Description:

IBS & Operational Resilience Control Director

London/Hybrid

6 month contract

Day rate £900 via Umbrella Company DOE

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My client is one of the largest investment management companies in Japan, backed by a number of the leading financial institutions in Japan. They offer discretionary investment management, investment trusts and advisory services to a range of institutional investors, pension funds, government agencies and retail investors worldwide.

They are looking for an experienced IBS & Operational Resilience Control Director to lead a critical programme of work focused on enhancing Operational Resilience outcomes and strengthening the control environment supporting IBS across the EMEA Division.

You will be operating as the senior First Line Operational Resilience Control SME, providing leadership and direction across a major resilience uplift programme. You will act as the key interface between the EMEA Control Office and the Operational Resilience function, ensuring resilience requirements are translated into practical, measurable and sustainable control outcomes.

This role requires deep expertise in Operational Resilience, Operational Risk and control frameworks, combined with the ability to challenge constructively, influence senior stakeholders and lead delivery across a complex banking environment.

The position is being offered on an initial 6 month contract with the potential to extend in line with the needs of the programme, working Monday to Friday, standard office hours with the occasional out of hours requirement in line with business needs. The position is being offered on a hybrid working basis being office based 3 days a week, 2 days working from home.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of a strategic Operational Resilience enhancement programme across EMEA.
• Act as the principal First Line SME for Operational Resilience controls and IBS.
• Provide leadership and oversight to the member of the team.
• Assess the maturity and effectiveness of controls supporting Operational Resilience and Important Business Services.
• Lead reviews of resilience frameworks, resilience outcomes, monitoring mechanisms and resilience-related controls.
• Ensure resilience controls appropriately support delivery of critical services within approved impact tolerances.
• Oversee control mapping activities across business, technology, operations and third-party ecosystems.
• Identify resilience vulnerabilities, control weaknesses and dependency risks across the control environment.
• Challenge resilience assumptions, trigger frameworks, management information and resilience monitoring approaches.
• Develop and drive remediation strategies, implementation plans and programme milestones.
• Provide recommendations to senior management regarding resilience enhancements and control optimisation.
• Partner closely with Operational Resilience, Operational Risk, Business Continuity, Technology, Cyber Security and Third Party Risk teams.
• Lead governance discussions and present findings, recommendations and programme updates at senior management forums.

Required Experience

Operational Resilience Expertise

• Deep knowledge of FCA and PRA Operational Resilience requirements.
• Demonstrable experience delivering Operational Resilience programmes within a banking environment.
• Strong understanding of IBS and resilience outcomes.
• Experience assessing and enhancing Operational Resiliance control frameworks.
• Experience translating Operational Resilience regulatory requirements into First Line control environments.

IBS & Resilience Delivery

• Direct experience identifying, maintaining or governing IBS.
• Experience performing or overseeing service mapping activities.
• Experience analysing dependencies across people, process, technology, data and third parties.
• Experience assessing resilience vulnerabilities and operational disruption scenarios.

Controls & Operational Risk

• Extensive experience within First Line Risk & Control, Business Control Office, Operational Risk or Operational Resilience functions.
• Deep understanding of control lifecycle management, including control design, effectiveness assessment, monitoring and remediation.
• Experience leading control assessments, gap analyses and remediation programmes.
• Experience challenging controls through an Operational Resilience lens.

Leadership & Stakeholder Management

• Experience leading complex cross-functional programmes within financial services.
• Experience influencing senior stakeholders across Operations, Technology, Cyber Security, Business Continuity, Third Party Risk and Risk functions.
• Experience presenting to governance forums and stakeholders.

Candidates must show evidence of the above in their CV to be considered.

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