Cyber Resilience Lead

Job Title

Cyber Resilience Lead

Job Description

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

As part of the new approach being taken, rather than being aligned with a specific business you will be part of a small team working to support and develop 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 Technology and Cyber Security Risk, you will be key to delivering our Cyber Insurance strategy, Crisis management mechanisms, and modelling of 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.
• Driving 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.
• Working with the businesses to help them understand good practices in incident management, such there are consistent mechanisms to manage an incident through it’s lifecycle.
• Overseeing business led resilience workstreams and support consistency in approach and aggregated reporting
• Promoting 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.
• Keeping abreast of emerging resilience requirements and provide an analysis of potential impacts to the Group.
• Producing reports and recommendations on Cyber resilience topics as required for Group Committees / Board
• Providing advice to guide and support new propositions, products or areas of business expansion
• Dealing with and/or refer any Cyber resilience queries that are generated by the organisation in a timely and accurate fashion
• Developing and maintaining key stakeholder relationships across the Group.

Key Skills, Qualifications and Experience

Essential: 

• 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 

Desirable:

• Experience working within a regulated environment such as the financial services sector
• Hold one or more relevant qualifications

About Admiral

Our success goes hand-in-hand with having a strong culture where we put our people and customers first. Our philosophy is simple yet effective: people who like what they do, do it better, and this in turn, means that our customers receive the level of service and products that they deserve. Our culture is honest, open and wholeheartedly focused on four key areas: Communication, Equality, Reward & Recognition, and Fun.

Salary, Benefits and Work-Life Balance

We do not have a set salary for this position, as it will be dependent on the successful candidates 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 voted no. 1 in the 2019 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 accomodate flexible hours wherever possible.

You can also view some of our other key benefits here; https://admiraljobs.co.uk/employee-benefits/.

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