Job Description
Job Title: Resilience Analyst
Contract Type: Permanent
Location: Edinburgh or Glasgow, or Alderley Park (Wilmslow)
Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based
Overview:
We have an exciting opportunity for a Resilience Analyst to join our Resilience Management Office Team at Royal London. Working closely with operational leaders from across all entities within the business, the Resilience Analyst will work to support the maintenance of the Group’s Operational Resilience lifecycle. The role is central to ensuring a robust governance structure is in place for all Operational Resilience activities.
The purpose of the team is to protect the Group from external and internal threats and continually calibrates the Group’s Important Business Services (IBS) and impact tolerances accordingly. The primary objective of this function is to ensure that the Group has an adequate framework in place to oversee operational resilience and ensure that the Group can take informed decisions in respect of actions and investments to improve its resilience.
About the role:
Coordination and ownership of the Resilience timetable, ensuring all roles conduct activities in line with requirements
Ensuring that all artefacts and documentation are in place and retained appropriately
Ensuring that governance packs and documentation is produced and retained in line with expectation
Providing guidance to stakeholders required to utilise tools and templates provided by the Resilience Management Office
Working closely with the Resilience Testing Lead monitor findings relating to Operational Resilience following scenario exercises
Ownership of the day-to-day management and tracking of Operational Resilience vulnerabilities, ensuring evidence is in place and that updates are provide to the relevant governance groups and committees
Responsible for undertaking analysis of the evidence provided by the Pillar owners, to support individual metrics, to ensure metrics are robust and accurate records are maintained
Supporting on attendance at third party site visits, both virtual and physical, and the creation of subsequent site visit reports
About you:
A detailed understanding of the regulatory priorities
Knowledge of the financial services industry, how our business operates and the legislative/regulatory framework
Understanding of service resilience design and execution
Basic understanding of Business Continuity Planning and IT Disaster Recovery
Experience of dealing with process / organisational change
Experience of working in enterprise-scale organisations in financial services or similarly regulated industry
A passion for designing resilience into everything we do
Strong senior stakeholder management skills
Ability to communicate at an executive level and produce reports suitable for consumption at an executive level
Excellent communication skills with an ability to significantly influence senior and executive business leaders.
If you think you would be a great fit for our data team at Royal London but don’t meet all the requirements of the role, please get in touch as your application will still be considered.
About Royal London
We’re the UK’s largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings and asset management products and services.
Our People Promise to our colleagues is that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve.
We've always been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays, an up to 14% employer matching pension scheme and private medical insurance. You can see all our benefits here - Our Benefits
Inclusion, diversity and belonging
We’re an Inclusive employer. We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across Royal London. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected – whatever their background.
We’re the UK’s largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings and asset management products and services.
Royal London is a purpose-driven mutual. Our Purpose, ‘Protecting today, investing in tomorrow. Together we are mutually responsible’, defines the impact we want to have. It shapes what we do on behalf of our members and customers, financial advisers, our colleagues and the communities in which we operate. Our People Promise is our collective commitment that our workplace will be inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling where all colleagues can thrive and experience a sense of belonging. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve.
Our inclusive values and people promise are core to who we are and how we work. It’s good for our people, and good for our customers too, because with an inclusive workplace and a diverse workforce we will reflect our members, customers and communities to deliver the best outcomes.
We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across our organisation. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected– whatever their background.
Workplace Initiatives
Program for parents returning to work after Parental Leave? |
No |
Leadership development programmes? |
Yes |
Mentoring programmes? |
Yes |
Coaching programmes? |
Yes |
Employee-led diversity networks? |
Yes |
Internal women’s networking groups? |
Yes |
Open to discussing flexible work arrangements at interview stage? |
Yes |
No. of weeks paid maternity leave at full salary: |
26 weeks (followed by 13 weeks half pay) |
Minimum weeks tenure required to be eligible for paid maternity leave: |
Open to all regardless of length of service |
No. of weeks paid paternity leave at full salary: |
4 weeks |
Minimum tenure required to be eligible for paid paternity leave: |
Open to all regardless of length of service |
Gender pay gap reporting information 2022: |
|
Mean pay gap: |
35.3% |
Median pay gap: |
33.9% |
Mean bonus gap: |
70.4% |
Median bonus gap: |
48.5% |
Signatory of the UK Women in Finance Charter? |
Yes |
Targets to raise the number of women in leadership? |
Yes |
Targets to raise the number of BAME individuals in leadership? |
No |
Listed in the Bloomberg Diversity & Inclusion Index? |
No |
Graduate Programmes
We have a number of graduate programmes designed to deliver technical experts and future leaders.
Royal London Career Confidence programme
Our hybrid programme focuses on equipping you to feel empowered in your career and supported to explore new opportunities as they arise.
Apprenticeships
We offer a wide range of Apprenticeships that are targeted at both new joiners and existing colleagues.
Inclusion
We promote an inclusive culture at Royal London and have a range of inclusion networks for our colleagues to get involved with.
Our Women's Network is a community that celebrates and supports its members, helps everyone to learn more and inspires all of us to aim higher. Confidence and development are strong themes here and our events focus on three key areas of team working, finance, and wellbeing. There are two sub-groups to the Women’s Network – Women in Technology and our Periods and Menopause Group – focused on actions such as supporting over 20 new Periods and Menopause champions and launching guidance and training for leaders.