Senior Operational Resilience Professional

Requirements of the role

Technology Resilience and Cyber (TRC) – At a time of rapid technology change, new regulation to improve operational resilience, and increasing cyber threats, you will have the unique opportunity to influence the FCA’s and industry’s agenda. You will work in the public interest and be focused on increasing the sector’s operational resilience.

What you will be doing

The successful candidate will work on technology and cyber resilience related matters across regulated firms, predominantly within the Insurance and Retail sectors within financial services, providing technical expertise and advice to frontline FCA supervisors. The Technology Resilience and Cyber departments (TRC) role is to understand firms’ current and planned use of technology, identify and assess potential harm and risk to the market and promote good practice by clarifying our expectations and acting when necessary.

• Acting as an SME for Operational Resilience across the team, wider department and the FCA
• Ensuring delivery of firm assessments for prioritised high impact firms to provide supervisors with a forward-looking evidence and judgement-based assessment, supported by the facts, on whether a firm’s technology, resilience and/or cyber capabilities are sufficient or require further mitigating actions
• Supporting strategic analysis of incidents in your allocation of prioritised firms arising from cyber-attack or technology disruptions
• Contributing to thematic work, owning delivery of key items and delivering through others
• Taking part in technical engagement with external stakeholders including other Authorities and Senior firm representatives
• Undertaking peer comparison and analysis of the maturity of firms’ technology and cyber environment in relation to other firms in the sector and the wider market

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