Senior Risk Management Specialist

2 weeks ago


Cardiff, Cardiff, United Kingdom Starling Bank Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Technology Risk Analyst to join our First Line Information Technology & Security Risk team at Starling Bank. As a key member of our team, you will play a critical role in ensuring the operational resilience and preparedness of our organization.

Your primary responsibilities will include:

  • Executing day-to-day activities to ensure the continued operational resilience and preparedness of the organization
  • Collaborating with stakeholders, including second and third lines, to prevent, respond, recover, and learn from operational disruption events
  • Working on a variety of issues, including actively supporting the management of the Bank's technical resilience and continuity arrangements, creating, maintaining, and updating the Bank's continuity and recovery documentation, and working across Technology teams to ensure that resilience, continuity, and recovery activities are completed

Key Requirements:

  • Comprehensive understanding of operational resilience, business continuity, and disaster recovery standards and best practice
  • Strong analytic ability to look at complex business processes, identify opportunities for, and where appropriate, recommend business process improvements
  • Pragmatic approach and ability to work collaboratively in a technology-driven environment to develop proportionate response plans
  • Develop and maintain an understanding of the operational regulatory environment
  • Take responsibility and do the right thing for customers, colleagues, and partners

We are looking for individuals with experience across one or more of these areas. It is not expected that you will have worked in all of these.

The following skills and experience are desirable:

  • Experience working within financial services or business continuity management. Alternatively, experience in business operations teams or wider risk management
  • Experience of working with industry-recognized standards and frameworks such as ISO and NIST
  • Experience of information technology systems and processes, including cloud
  • Experience working with key stakeholders, developing working relationships, and providing insightful management reporting/information
  • Good attention to detail, plus analysis and presentation skills
  • Flexibility in your approach to meeting goals as part of the wider team
  • An innovative mindset and general interest in information technology, automation, and development (including coding)

What We Offer

We offer a range of benefits, including:

  • 25 days holiday (plus take your public holiday allowance whenever works best for you)
  • An extra day's holiday for your birthday
  • Annual leave is increased with length of service, and you can choose to buy or sell up to five extra days off
  • 16 hours paid volunteering time a year
  • Salary sacrifice, company-enhanced pension scheme
  • Life insurance at 4x your salary & group income protection
  • Private Medical Insurance with VitalityHealth, including mental health support and cancer care. Partner benefits include discounts with Waitrose, Mr&Mrs Smith, and Peloton
  • Generous family-friendly policies
  • Incentives refer a friend scheme
  • Perkbox membership, giving access to retail discounts, a wellness platform for physical and mental health, and weekly free and boosted perks
  • Access to initiatives like Cycle to Work, Salary Sacrificed Gym partnerships, and Electric Vehicle (EV) leasing

About Us

We are a fully licensed UK bank with the culture and spirit of a fast-moving, disruptive tech company. We're a bank, but better: fairer, easier to use, and designed to demystify money for everyone. We employ more than 3,000 people across our London, Southampton, Cardiff, and Manchester offices.

Our technologists are at the very heart of Starling and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment that is all about building things, creating new stuff, and disruptive technology that keeps us on the cutting edge of fintech. We operate a flat structure to empower you to make decisions regardless of what your primary responsibilities may be, innovation and collaboration will be at the core of everything you do. Help is never far away in our open culture, you will find support in your team and from across the business, we are in this together

The way to thrive and shine within Starling is to be a self-driven individual and be able to take full ownership of everything around you: From building things, designing, discovering, to sharing knowledge with your colleagues and making sure all processes are efficient and productive to deliver the best possible results for our customers. Our purpose is underpinned by five Starling values: Listen, Keep It Simple, Do The Right Thing, Own It, and Aim For Greatness.

Hybrid Working

We have a Hybrid approach to working here at Starling - our preference is that you're located within a commutable distance of one of our offices so that we're able to interact and collaborate in person. The expectation for this role is 2-3 days in the office.



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