Resilience Lead in Knutsford

We are looking for a Resilience Lead to join our Group Resilience team in Group Control facing off to the Investment Bank business. The ideal candidate would have experience of working in Markets, managing risk, influencing senior stakeholders (up to Managing Director, Exco level) along with excellent organisation, project planning, communication & data analysis skills.

To Be Successful In This Role, You Should Have:

• Experience of working in a risk, control, resilience or security role.
• Experience of senior stakeholder management.
• Leadership and influencing across a matrix team environment.

Additional Skills Include:

• Experience of working in a role within Operational Resilience – i.e. understand Operational Resilience Regulation.
• Governance and reporting.
• Technology awareness.

This role can be based in either Knutsford or Glasgow.

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, ensuring compliance to the standard and controls.
• Development and enhancement of the resilience, crisis and incident management framework to uplift recovery and response capabilities.
• 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.
• Communication of the firm’s / business’ resilience position through clear and transparent scorecards / dashboards.
• Enhancement of resilience, crisis management and incident response and recovery capability through sophisticated 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.
• 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 from various channels.
• Documentation and analysis of past prioritised incident details, the steps to resolution and the lessons learnt.

Vice President Expectations:

• To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change.
• Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/processes.
• If managing a team, define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations.
• Demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive.
• Advise key stakeholders on functional and cross-functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Collaborate with other areas of work for business aligned support areas.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought.
• Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive.