Cyber Resilience Lead

We’re looking for an enthusiastic cyber resilience lead, to join a team responsible for oversight across the Admiral Group.

You will be part of a small team working to support the Group Technology and Cyber Security risk management strategy. This is an exciting opportunity to help build and develop the mechanisms that will ensure that the Group continues to effectively manage exposure to Technology and Cyber Security threats.

A big part of the role will be building effective relationships with the business level risk, technology and cyber security teams, to ensure that there are appropriate mechanisms to respond and recover from issues.

Reporting in to the Group Head of Enterprise Risk, you will be key to delivering our Cyber Insurance strategy, crisis management mechanisms, and modelling severe but plausible scenarios.

You will also maintain oversight of the technology and cyber security work being completed to deliver operational resilience within the businesses, encouraging knowledge sharing and best practice adoption.

Main Duties

• As Group Cyber Resilience Lead, you are responsible for overseeing and supporting the resilience aspects of the overall technology and cyber security risk management programme.
• You will drive the Cyber Insurance strategy, understanding the coverages available and developing the proposed levels of cover. You will also lead on the collation of information needed for submission to the brokers by the business.
• You will also drive the cyber crisis management workstreams, embedding the Group level response strategy and helping to ensure robust mechanisms are in place to respond to, and recover from potential cyber crises.
• Work with the businesses to help them understand good practices in incident management, such there are consistent mechanisms to manage an incident through its lifecycle.
• Oversee business led resilience workstreams and support consistency in approach and aggregated reporting
• Promote cyber resilience as part of the wider Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) processes, improving awareness and understanding across the Group in order to minimise the potential impacts upon the business.
• Keep abreast of emerging resilience requirements and provide an analysis of potential impacts to the Group.
• Produce reports and recommendations on Cyber resilience topics as required for Group Committees / Board
• Provide advice to guide and support new propositions, products or areas of business expansion
• Deal with and/or refer any Cyber resilience queries that are generated by the organisation in a timely and accurate fashion
• Develop and maintain key stakeholder relationships across the Group.

Key Skills, Qualifications and Experience

• Subject Matter expertise – Have a deep knowledge of Technology and / Cyber Security allowing you to be recognised as an expert within the business. You’ll have a minimum of 3  years experience in a related role and experience with Cyber response strategies.
• Initiative and pro-activity – Take effective and informed decisions using own initiative and based upon a sound understanding of the business issues and challenges of the business
• Communication – Clear and appropriate communication for employees at all levels with the ability to discuss technical subjects with both technical and non technical audiences. Ability to articulate and pitch governance advice, often at a technical level, directly to key customer stakeholders.
• Planning and Organising – Develop clear, efficient and logical approaches to tackle issues and problems in a logical, step-by-step way. Ability to effectively collaborate, and work independently in a fast-growing organisation
• Customer focus – An understanding of customer priorities and a desire to support their expectations 
• Experience working within a regulated environment such as the financial services sector
• Hold one or more relevant qualifications

Salary, Benefits and Work-Life Balance

We do not have a set salary for this position, as it will be dependent on the successful candidate’s experience. We are happy to see CVs from all candidates who meet the requirements and will be happy to discuss the remuneration package.

At Admiral, we are proud to be a diverse business where we put our people and customers first. We have great benefits to ensure employees have a great work-life balance; it's one of the reasons we’re consistently voted one of the Sunday Times Best Big Companies to work for in the UK. We want you to have an element of freedom to define a working lifestyle that supports this, so accommodate flexible hours wherever possible.

All colleagues will receive 33 days holiday (including banks holidays) when they join us, and this will increase with length of service, up to a maximum of 38 days (including banks holidays). You also have the option to buy or sell up to five days of annual leave in addition to your allocation.

You can also view some of our other key benefits here.

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