Senior Manager, Operational Resilience Oversight

Senior Manager – Operational Resilience Oversight
We are looking for an experienced operational resilience/ business continuity professional with strong technical skills combined with the ability to communicate with and influence both technical and non-technical senior management.
We’re a global investment manager. We help institutions, intermediaries and individuals around the world invest money to meet their goals, fulfil their ambitions, and prepare for the future.
And we’ve been around for over 200 years but keep adapting as society and technology changes. What doesn’t change is our commitment to helping our clients, and society, prosper.
We’re close to our clients, in the heart of the UK’s financial centre and we have everything we need to work flexibly.
The Non-Financial Risk function is comprised of several key teams:
Operational Risk
Cyber, Technology & Resilience Risk
Compliance Assurance
Risk & Compliance Frameworks, Governance & Reporting
Physical Security
The Cyber, Technology & Resilience Risk team operates as part of the second line of defence, providing oversight across Schroders. This team develops and maintains the tools and frameworks necessary for overseeing cyber, technology, and resilience risks. It collaborates closely with Global Technology, Information Security, and first-line business units to ensure such risks are clearly defined, assessed, managed, and reported.
Programme management of the annual Business Continuity programme.
Maintaining and regularly testing crisis and incident management frameworks.
Overseeing cyber risks via the Information Security Risk Oversight Committee and through review of KRIs and KCIs.
Collaborating with information security teams to ensure effective articulation, assessment, and management of cyber risks.
Providing oversight of technology risk through risk control assessments and engagement on strategic technology initiatives.
Monitoring cyber and technology-related risk events to ensure thorough root cause analysis and appropriate remediation.
This position is responsible for providing robust oversight of the Group’s approach to operational resilience and supporting the delivery of BC and Crisis Management capabilities, achieving compliance with applicable regulations.
Providing credible and effective oversight, support, and challenge to the business concerning operational resilience in alignment with relevant regulatory frameworks.
Overseeing the scenario testing programme scope and approach including reviewing and attending severe but plausible scenario testing to ensure sufficiently robust
Reviewing outputs from scenario testing to ensure vulnerabilities are clearly articulated and remediation plans are appropriate
Overseeing regional compliance with operational resilience regulations including DORA, MAS BCM, FINMA Operational Risk & Resilience, including:
Demonstrating strong understanding of cyber risks and what are effective response and recovery strategies for cyber incidents
Applying insights from experience within leading financial services firms to support the business in driving enhancements across all operational resilience areas
Business Continuity, Operational Risk, Cyber/ Technology Risk and/or Crisis Management, either in a first line, second line or third line capacity.
Financial Services experience, preferably in Asset or Wealth Management.
The Knowledge, Experience And Qualifications That’ll Help
Relevant technical qualifications in Business Continuity, Crisis Management, or Information Security.
Working knowledge of Asset or Wealth Management.
Experience in Investment Banking or Retail Banking within an Operational Resilience, Business Continuity or Operational/ Technology or Cyber Risk capacity.
Our purpose is to provide excellent investment performance to clients through active management. Diversity of thought, facilitated by an inclusive culture, will allow us to make better decisions and better achieve our purpose. This is why inclusion and diversity are a strategic priority for us and why we are an equal opportunities employer. You are welcome here, regardless of your age, disability, gender identity, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, socio-economic background, or any other protected characteristic.
We're a global investment manager. We help institutions, intermediaries and individuals around the world invest money to meet their goals, fulfil their ambitions, and prepare for the future.
And we've been around for over 200 years, but keep adapting as society and technology changes. What doesn't change is our commitment to helping our clients, and society, prosper.