Project Manager – Fixed Term Contract (3 – 4 Months)
A small prestigious international bank is seeking an experienced Project Manager to assist with projects covering Operational Resilience & Business Continuity, IT & Cyber Resilience and Third-Party Risk Management.
Your responsibilities will cover:
- Updating the Bank’s Operational Resilience Framework (to PRA/FCA requirements)
- Conducting, documenting and maintaining Business Impact Assessments, Business Continuity Plans and Disaster Recovery strategies
- Coordinating resilience testing, including crisis simulations, system outage scenarios etc
- Reporting on resilience readiness and vulnerabilities
- CIS Procedures Gap Analysis
- Partnering with IT and Cyber teams to ensure technology resilience for critical services around RTO, RPO, backup, and failover
- Supporting IT Service Continuity Management testing
- Ensuring alignment with cybersecurity frameworks (NIST, ISO 27001) and PRA/FCA expectations
- Monitoring and challenging third-party/vendor resilience
- Overseeing Third Party Risk Management
Your experience must include:
- Strong proven experience in Operational Resilience, Business Continuity Plans and Disaster Recovery gained with banking
- Familiarity with regulatory expectations such as PRA/FCA Operational Resilience, SMCR, PSD2/PSRs etc is essential
- Extensive operational risk management and analytical skills
- Excellent communication skills both written and oral to liaise at all levels
- Proactive and practical approach and ability to multi task
- Degree educated
This is a hybrid role working 3 days a week in the London office and 2 days remotely.