Senior Analyst

Admiral is a high-growth digital business that increasingly leverages modern technology to realise its ambitions. Our technology teams are at the heart of our success, and we continue to grow our engineering excellence as a fundamental enabler to achieving business outcomes and providing great customer service.

Our newly formed Operational Resilience Department is currently hiring an Operational Resilience Senior Analyst to join our growing team. In this role, you will coordinate and support the continuous development, embedding and management of the Operational Resilience programme within EUI. You will work closely with a broad range of stakeholders, including target business areas to understand and analyse Operational Resilience needs across EUI. 

Working diligently to support the 12 Important Business Services (IBS) within EUI, you will instil best practice to ensure continuous compliance to regulations, and internal policies. The role will always require a high level of professionalism and confidentiality. 

Key Responsibilities

• Support the delivery of the business resilience framework, confirming that it is embedded across the organisation and in line with regulatory obligations
• Producing documentation in line with the Operational Resilience Programme of work ensuring People, Process, Technology, Supplier, and Facilities dependencies are documented. e.g., impact tolerances, process mapping and vulnerabilities
• Working collaboratively with multiple departments, across the business (such as Claims, Ops, Digital and Household) to ensure all necessary documentation and actions are completed.
• Performing scenario testing across all IBS to assess current state and identify vulnerabilities that feed the ongoing remediation plans.
• Ensuring the Operational Resilience MI packs are prepared, internally reviewed, and submitted to the Operational Resilience Committee in a timely manner. Supporting the relevant governance committees to govern the function; the relevant training programmes and exercises are planned to ensure awareness and the relevant MI exists to demonstrate effective management.
• Promoting effective oversight across the group’s resilience framework
• Assist with the integration of outsourcing/third party risk management framework, ensuring it is consistent with the operational resilience framework
• Support the production of annual self-assessment of operational resilience work performed within the Operational Resilience area
• Engage with EUI Risk on the identification, monitoring, managing, and reporting of emerging risks/environment scanning that can affect the firm’s operational resilience

Role Requirements

• Knowledge of Operational Resilience or Business Continuity desirable
• Good awareness of the financial services regulatory environment and regulations impacting GI preferable
• Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Teams experience
• Experience facilitating and leading meetings/workshops
• Strong analytical skills, ability to produce MI and reports, and report and present findings
• 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 communication skills to create and deliver clear and concise written or verbal reports
• High level of attention to detail and accuracy when producing work
• Excellent multitasking and organisation skills
• The ability to work under pressure, to deadlines and to prioritise workloads.
• 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
• Knowledge and understanding of governance frameworks, risk, and compliance
• Ability to build positive relationships and effectively influence, advise, and support people throughout the organisation

Our Commitment to You

At Admiral, we are committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace. Admiral is proud to be an equal opportunities employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, or any other legally protected status.

All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment.

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.

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.