Kind Consultancy is working with a well-established retail Financial Services business which is currently seeking an Operational Resilience Analyst to join them in a permanent role paying up to £50,000 dependent on experience, with a hybrid work model requiring 1 in-office day per week in their North Yorkshire offices.

The Operational Resilience Analyst is responsible for the delivery of Operational Resilience objectives, with key activities including:

• Taking ownership of resilience mapping workbooks and ensuring that they remain current and complete, clearly evidencing where there are contingency gaps.
• Supporting the Operational Resilience Manager in the review of Impact Tolerances, ensuring relevant metrics are collated, analysed and documented.
• Leading on the delivery and documentation of a broad range of scenario tests, including producing delivery slides, running desktop exercises and performing data analysis and simulation exercises
• Contributing to the design of resilience targets, working with the wider business to ensure that resilience tests are performed where necessary
• Documenting in-depth lessons learned and vulnerabilities identified following scenario testing or real disruption, articulating the findings to the Senior Management team.
• Maintaining and/or monitoring resilience related policies, procedures and response plans.
• Producing clear and accurate MI and reporting in various formats each month

Our ideal candidate for the Operational Resilience Analyst opportunity:

• Has a strong understanding of business operations and/or previous experience of Operational Resilience work
• Has 2 or more years of experience in the Financial Services sector within an oversight role.
• Is highly organised with a strong sense of governance
• Can work equally well independently as well as part of a team
• Can communicate proactively and confidently to influence stakeholders across the business
• Is forward thinking and anticipates deadlines without prompting
• Has excellent writing skills
• Is genuinely interested in resilience and strengthening business capabilities and contingency planning
• Has a strong sense of ownership

If you're interested in the Operational Resilience Analyst position, you have the necessary skills and experience and are based in or can commute to North Yorkshire, please apply with an updated CV today.