Senior Consultant, Operational Resilience, Financial Services

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The opportunity The team you join - EY’s UKFS Cyber & Resilience Practice is part of a global team of over 5,000 professionals focused on developing and delivering cutting edge security and resilience transformation programmes. We have large scale plans to expand our already market leading Cyber & Resilience practice and anticipate continued growth throughout the next five years.

The ability to remain resilient in the face of a range of disruptions is one of the most critical challenges facing businesses today. Rising client expectations, third-party dependencies, and technological advancements paired with the severe consequences of disruption on firms’ reputations, revenue and client trust has led resilience to strengthen its place in the global regulatory landscape.

The role is primarily focused on the development, delivery and assurance of operational and digital resilience programmes and related disciplines. This means helping clients understand and navigate new UK and international resilience-related regulations (e.g., UK FCA/PRA Operational Resilience, Digital Operational Resilience Act). You will support the delivery of resilience programmes, as well as some of the more foundational resilience disciplines such as business continuity, crisis management and testing.

Your key responsibilities include:

• Supporting our clients in developing and enhancing their resilience frameworks and capabilities.
• Helping clients understand the regulatory requirements they are faced with.
• Conducting resilience assessments, gap analyses, impact tolerance assessments and tests across a range of severe but plausible scenarios.
• Facilitating simulation exercises and providing training to client teams.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure a holistic approach to resilience.
• Evaluating and creating measures and controls to implement the regulatory requirements in diverse client environments.
• Keeping abreast of regulatory changes, events, and industry best practices in resilience.
• Contributing to thought leadership and business development activities.
• Assisting in overseeing project metrics by organising staffing, tracking budget, and proactively communicating risks, issues, and dependencies to project leaders.

Skills and attributes for success include:

• A broad background across resilience and business continuity.
• An understanding of resilience regulatory requirements around business services/critical functions.
• Business continuity management and impact assessments.
• Design and implementation of governance frameworks, processes, and controls.
• Incident and crisis management policies, procedures, and practice.
• Information security and non-financial operational risk requirements and frameworks.
• Security policies and procedures, standards, and controls in line with regulation and/or current standards (e.g. ISO27001).
• Data privacy, implementation of data protection/GDPR programmes.

To qualify for the role, you must have:

• Strong academic record including a relevant undergraduate (Bachelors) degree.
• Experience in a relevant industry (desirable: 12+ months experience in resilience, continuity or cyber).
• A passion for collaborating with a team and clients to solve complex problems.

Additional requirements (desirable):

• Experience in Financial Services, Consulting, Government Organisations or Military.
• Resilience/continuity related qualifications such as CBCI/AMBCI/MBCI, Master BCM, ISO22301 auditor, ISO 27001 auditor.
• Project and programme related qualifications; Prince II, Scrum, Agile.
• Information security and/or risk related qualifications such as CRISC, CISSP, CISA or equivalents.

What working at EY offers:

• Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career.
• The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that’s right for you.
• Excellent training and development prospects.
• Support, coaching and feedback from our collaborative colleagues.
• An excellent team of senior colleagues, dedicated to managing and varying your workload and supporting your growth.
• An international work environment with a diverse and inclusive team.
• A competitive remuneration package.

Way of working EY is committed to being an inclusive employer and we are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. We strive to achieve the right balance for our people, enabling us to deliver excellent client service whilst allowing you to build your career without sacrificing your personal priorities.