Business Continuity - London, United Kingdom - MS Amlin

MS Amlin
MS Amlin
Verified Company
London, United Kingdom

1 month ago

Tom O´Connor

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

beBee Recruiter
Description
Business Continuity Adviser

  • If you flourish in fast paced, dynamic environments where you can shape solutions, influence outcomes AND genuinely want to help others then this is the perfect role for you. Attention to detail as well as excellent interpersonal and stakeholder management skills will be vital in order to help the team build our 'Resilience by Design' offering whilst driving some of our key forwardlooking initiatives. This is very much a role about bringing business continuity and operational resilience not only to live, but to the forefront of everything that we are doing.
  • We're going through an exciting period of modernisation and transformation for which we need entrepreneurial thinkers to help execute our strategic vision for growth. We're also on a very exciting culture transformation journey so we are looking for dynamic people to help us shape and redefine our service excellence promise to our stakeholders._
  • About The Job
  • The purpose of the role is to maintain and enhance our Operational Resilience Framework, including Business Continuity, throughout MS ABS as well as our legal entities. You will work with key stakeholders across all business function and across multiple legal entities to understand the most critical aspects that keep us 'resilient', and develop capabilities to prevent, respond to and recover from severe but plausible disruption scenarios.
  • What you'll spend your time doing:
While there is rarely a 'typical' day within this role, here's a snapshot of some of the key parts of the role - you will be expected to:

  • Support the creation of a 'Centre of Excellence' for Business Continuity
  • Develop, embed and manage Business Continuity as part of our Crisis Management framework, which will support the strategy and drive consistency and standardisation across all MS ABS' functions and MS ABS' Legal Entities.
  • Act as a central point of contact for Business Continuityrelated queries and core BC activities.
  • Support the annual cycle of Business Impact Analyses (BIAs), planning, testing, and subsequent reporting.
  • Develop business cases and 'proof of concepts' for new business continuity plans / solutions, Maintenance of business service interdependency mapping (people, process, technology, suppliers, data & premises).
  • Champion enterprise resilience awareness and best practice sharing with our stakeholders
  • Working across teams and multiple stakeholders to help us deliver against the requirements of ABS being a robust, professional and resilient service company to our regulated legal entities
  • Coordinate and align the testing schedule for business continuity in line with our crisis management framework; review lessons learned on the back of testing exercises to identify maturity opportunities and track/remediate these towards resolution.
  • Oversight of thirdparty risk management & due diligence, including involvement in exit planning & testing where required
  • Monitor and report on key resilience and risk indicators, developing inputs for relevant governance bodies/for a (e.g. ExCo packs; monthly reporting)
  • Coordinate and drive engagement with key business stakeholders to ensure appropriate consideration is given to business continuity requirements in periods of business change and product development.
  • You're going to enjoy this job if you also
  • Have a strategic mindset that captures longerterm planning whilst not losing sight of interim deliverables
  • Love being organised whilst also having lots of different priorities and being able to balance them up.
  • Thrive on a challenge and have the necessary patience and communication skills to break down barriers and foster greater alignment.
  • Have a passion for personal and professional development for yourself and your colleagues
  • Like working in an environment of accountability, constructive challenge and continual improvement
  • What you'll need:
  • For this particular role you should ideally have the following:
  • Previous experience in managing a Business Continuity framework, preferably within financial services.
  • Proven experience in developing, implementing & testing comprehensive resilience strategies and disaster recovery plans.
  • Strong analytical skills
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to collaborate effectively with stakeholders at all levels of the organisation.
  • Be a solutiondriven problem solver.
  • The following aren't necessary, but regarded as advantageous:
  • A good understanding of the UK regulatory Operational Resilience Framework
  • Experience in thirdparty risk management
  • Certification in Business Continuity Management (CBCI, MBCI)
  • In addition to this, we will look to grow your own Talent and Development career by:
  • Supporting you to develop your Crisis Management and Resilience leadership skills
  • Developing your wider knowledge of Operational Resilience by giving you extensive exposure to a number of initiatives (i.e. report
More jobs from MS Amlin
See all jobs of MS Amlin