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