Description:
We are seeking an experienced and committed senior business continuity and/or incident management specialist to join TRC and provide specialist expertise and thought leadership within our work. TRC works with firms to ensure their existing systems and technologies are resilient to cyber-attacks and other disruption, and aim to protect consumers and markets and build confidence in the effectiveness of technology that underpins financial services. We work closely with the Bank of England, PRA, HM Treasury, the National Cyber Security Centre, and a range of other domestic and international authorities.
- At a time of rapid technology change and increasing cyber threats, you will have the opportunity to influence the FCA’s and industry's agenda to work in the public interest and increase the sector's operational resilience. This role covers a challenging and varied portfolio of work across all sectors of Financial Services and comprises a combination of reactive incident response, input into proactive firm assessment, and leadership of a significant strategic policy project
- This is an excellent opportunity to demonstrate your specialist expertise and leadership, in particular on business continuity and incident management underpinning operational resilience within firms, leveraging your expertise to support the FCA’s objectives
- Be the FCA’s lead specialist expert and thought leader on firms’ business continuity and incident response, articulating what best practices industry should be following and where business continuity and incident response thinking should be going next
- Lead our policy work on Incident Reporting, ensuring that our rules and tooling on incidents enables effective and efficient reporting by industry. This work will reduce administrative burden on firms, improve our data quality, and enable more effective regulatory response to operational incidents
- Lead a “service line” of TRC specialists in developing the FCA’s thinking and driving through new initiatives on firms’ business continuity and incident response
What You Will Get From The Role
- Support colleagues, including supervisors and FCA senior management, while demonstrating a recognised level of expertise in the subject matter
- Support TRC firm leads in the business continuity aspects of firm assessments (desk and/or visits based) to provide supervisors with a forward-looking judgement-based assessment, supported by the facts, on whether a firm's arrangements provide sufficient comfort and, where this is not the case, recommend action points for further review
- Be on call to manage incidents, on a periodic basis outside of normal business hours
- Provide specialist input and direction on the response to operational incidents within regulated firms, or across the sector, particularly in relation to highly complex or disruptive incidents
- Lead on key strategic initiatives across the department, ensuring a cohesive approach, linking technology issues with wider business risks and ability to articulate what these risks mean to consumers and the wider market
- Provide expert technical oversight and quality assurance for work undertaken by other team members and mentor more junior team members