Operational Resilience Analyst (12 month FTC)

We currently have an exciting opportunity for someone to join the Operational Resilience Department as a Resilience Analyst. The role will be to help shape and drive readiness and BAU activities as part of the Resilience regulation on a 12 month contract.

This is a varied and exciting role for someone who wants to gain further experience and develop their career at the forefront of a new and emerging financial services regulatory area.

As an Analyst you will play an essential role in coordinating and supporting the continuous resilience of AIGL’s intermediaries within the Admiral Group from an Operational Resilience perspective, overseeing best practice within EUI and leading the implementation of the Operational Resilience framework in AIGL with a particular focus on AIGL’s intermediaries who were out of scope of the UK regulations.

Although experience in areas such as procurement, third-party management, compliance, or risk would be advantageous, it’s not essential for the right candidate. A proactive, ‘can do’ attitude, solutions focussed mindset and a willingness to learn is also important.

The role will require you to work closely with, and influence, a broad range of stakeholders at different levels and across AIGL. 

Working diligently to support the Important Business Services (IBS) in AIGL understand their reliance on Third Parties, Systems and Applications to deliver these services, whilst ensuring processes and controls are in place to assure, they are resilient. You will instil best practice to ensure continuous compliance to regulations, and internal policies, through analysis and embedding governance standards.

Key Responsibilities

Responsibility and ownership of assigned areas and AIGL requirements. In addition, to the below, you will be expected to assist the team in delivering against our wider objectives and steps of resiliency, as necessary.

• Production of AIGL Resilience Framework, to set requirements in line with regulation.
• Creation of standards and expectations for Business areas/ owners, in line with regulation.
• Aid the business areas to facilitate the integration of Resilience requirements in AIGL framework and procedures. Including, training materials.
• Aid business areas to implement and embed AIGL resilience requirements in line with the regulation.
• Create and oversee Resilience MI Dashboards and ensuring all data is collated accurately and on time.
• Ensuring all dependencies for all Important Business Services are understood and documented. Including regular review of service maps, impact tolerances and recovery times etc.
• Review change activity across the business to assess and understand potential Resilience impacts.
• Engaging and working collaboratively with multiple entities, departments & stakeholders of all levels, across the business.
• Leading activities and discussions, to support the business and ensure all requirements/ best practise are being met and actions are completed.
• Tracking vulnerabilities to ensure they are remediated as soon as possible and proactively identifying new ones that need to be addressed or controls assigned to mitigate.
• Ensuring the Resilience MI packs are prepared, internally reviewed, and submitted to the relevant Committees in a timely manner.
• Support the production of annual self-assessment on resilience work performed within the area.
• Engage with Risk on the identification, monitoring, managing, and reporting of emerging risks/ environment scanning that can affect the firm’s operational resilience.
• Facilitation and performance of scenario testing across AIGL to assess current state and identify vulnerabilities that feed the ongoing remediation plans.

Role requirements

• Knowledge or awareness of one or more of the following is preferable.
  • Operational Resilience, Business Continuity or Financial Services regulations and environment.
  • Knowledge and understanding of governance frameworks, risk, and compliance.
• Ability to analyse information or situations and make informed decisions or recommendations. Methodical with good attention to detail.
• Experience in developing and establishing procedures or processes.
• Good interpersonal skills with the ability to successfully engage and influence a broad range of individuals across various businesses, key support functions, and decision makers across the business.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to create and deliver clear and concise reports.
• Confident running workshops and meetings.
• Receptive to feedback, adaptable and willing to learn.
• The ability to work under pressure, to deadlines and to prioritise a varied workload.
• Self-assured – be able to confidently request, challenge and amend information as necessary.
• The ability to work as a team member as well as being able to work under own initiative.
• Ability to build positive relationships and effectively influence, advise, and support people throughout the organisation.
• Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Teams experience.

Interview Process

A one-stage interview process. 

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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