Resilience Testing Lead

3 weeks ago

Edinburgh, United Kingdom abrdn Full time

Job Description

abrdn is a leading asset management company with a global footprint. We are dedicated to creating long-term value for our clients by focusing on innovative solutions and sustainable practices. Our Security, Resilience & Protection Department is committed to delivering a global, scalable, and efficient service, ensuring the safety and security of our customers, clients, people, and shareholders.

About the Department

The Security, Resilience & Protection Department provides expertise to enable the entire company to operate safely and securely. The department plays a crucial role in safeguarding the operational resilience of our global operations.

About the Role

The Resilience Testing Lead will play a key role within the Operational Resilience Team. This role is accountable for implementing, managing, and developing abrdn's operational resilience testing framework. You will apply your management, analytical, process, and project management skills to ensure alignment with policy, certification, regulatory, and client requirements.

Key Responsibilities

Manage and deliver regular testing of all components of the Operational Resilience and DORA programme, conducting thorough analysis of results.

Maintain a schedule of resilience tests, and ensure lessons learned and vulnerability logs are consistently updated.

Manage local and major incidents, supporting key stakeholders during crisis-level events, and ensuring that impacts to people, processes, clients, and shareholders are mitigated.

Conduct analysis to identify opportunities to mitigate risks, ensuring compliance with ISO22301, client, and regulatory obligations.

Lead policy, risk, and compliance activities, including control self-assessments and risk tracking.

Provide regular updates to Operational Resilience Business Partners and contribute to internal and external audits, ensuring all compliance requirements are met.

Promote global awareness of the Operational Resilience policy, framework, and standards, leading specific testing projects as required.

About the Candidate

The ideal candidate will possess the following:

Proven experience in organizing and facilitating test exercises, with a focus on operational resilience.

Strong knowledge of control and risk management processes, with the ability to make informed risk judgments.

Excellent planning, organization, and communication skills, with a proven ability to build relationships and trust across the organization.

Experience in report writing up to senior management level.

People development skills, with the ability to manage resilience SMEs and collaborate across teams.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer. If you have a disability and would like to apply to one of our UK roles under the Disability Confident Scheme, please notify us by completing the relevant section in our candidate questionnaire. One of our team will reach out to support you through your application process.

Our benefits

There's more to working life than coming home with a good salary. We have an environment where you can learn, get involved and be supported.

When you join us, your reward will be one of the best around. This includes 40 days’ annual leave, a 16% employer pension contribution, a discretionary performance based bonus (where applicable), private healthcare and a range of flexible benefits – including gym discounts, season ticket loans and access to an employee discount portal. You can read more about our benefits here.

Our business

Enabling our clients to be better investors drives everything we do. Our business is structured around three distinct areas – our vectors of growth – focused on our clients’ changing needs. You can find out more about what we do here.

We’re committed to providing an inclusive workplace where all forms of difference are valued and which is free from any form of unfair or unlawful treatment.  We define diversity in its broadest sense – this includes but is not limited to our diversity of educational and professional backgrounds, experience, cognitive and neurodiversity, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, religion or belief and ethnicity and geographical provenance.  We support a culture that values meritocracy, fairness and transparency and welcomes enquiries from everyone.

If you need assistance or an adjustment due to a disability please let us know as part of your application and we will assist.

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