Operational Resilience Governance Manager - Contract

Contract: 2 months initially (extension likely)
IR35: Inside
Rate: TBC
Location: 2 days per week in London or Bristol

The client
A UK specialist retail bank is looking for an experienced Operational Resilience Governance Manager to join its first-line Operational Resilience team. The role sits within the Identify & Prepare pillar and owns governance, oversight, reporting and engagement across the resilience framework.

The role

• Maintain the UK Operational Resilience policy and framework, working with Group and Second Line teams
• Own templates, artefacts and methodology standards
• Run the UK Operational Resilience Forum and produce MI and reporting that supports decision-making
• Embed resilience-by-design into change, including oversight of high-risk change and its impact on Important Business Services
• Maintain controls, assurance activity, risks and issues, feeding updates into UK risk teams
• Lead horizon scanning, regulatory engagement and information requests
• Represent the bank at industry forums such as UK Finance's Operational Resilience Committee
• Deliver training and awareness sessions across the business, and manage internal Op Res comms
• Line manage a Senior Analyst

What you'll bring

• Strong, hands-on operational resilience experience within UK financial services
• Solid working knowledge of the PRA/FCA operational resilience regime, with exposure to DORA
• Experience running governance forums, producing resilience MI and working with Second Line
• Confident stakeholder management across Operations, IT, Risk, Change and senior leadership