Director, Enterprise Continuity (9-month FTC)
Director, Enterprise Continuity (9-month FTC)
London, Docklands (hybrid - 2 days in office)
Up to £130,000 per annum + annual discretionary bonus
On behalf of a Leading financial services organisation, I am seeking a Director of Enterprise Continuity to help shape and deliver an industry-leading operational resilience and continuity programme. This organisation plays a critical role in the global financial ecosystem, maintaining exceptionally high standards of resilience, stability and regulatory compliance.
As regulatory expectations evolve and resilience becomes an even greater strategic priority, this senior role will support the Executive Director of Enterprise Continuity in maturing enterprise-wide capabilities, strengthening continuity frameworks, and driving change across the organisation.
Responsibilities:
- Enterprise Continuity Delivery - Support the design and execution of the enterprise continuity programme.
- Critical Service Identification - Identify critical internal business services and define associated impact tolerances.
- Service Mapping & Scenario Testing - Lead mapping, scenario testing and vulnerability identification across critical services.
- Resilience Tooling - Design and deliver dashboards, tooling and MI for resilience oversight.
- Resilience Improvement Initiatives - Deliver programmes to enhance resilience across operational domains.
- BCM Transformation - Support the evolution of BCM capabilities into modern, industry-leading continuity solutions.
- Training & Testing - Plan and deliver staff training and resilience testing exercises.
- Governance Support - Prepare materials for governance forums and regulatory engagements.
- Risk & Controls - Support management of risk and controls within the Enterprise Continuity function.
- Strategic BIA - Design and execute enterprise-wide strategic business impact assessments.
- Threat Continuity Planning - Contribute to continuity planning for cyber, resolution, pandemic and other existential threats.
- Stakeholder Engagement - Lead internal and external engagements, including with Executive Management and regulators.
Experience/Skills required:
- Operational Resilience Leadership within GSIBs, FMIs or similarly regulated environments.
- Business Process Mapping and MI development expertise.
- Operational Resilience Metrics - experience designing and implementing resilience reporting.
- Fusion Risk Management platform experience.
- Cross-Domain Risk Analysis across technology, third-party, facilities and people risk.
- Scenario Testing - design, delivery and remediation planning.
- Regulatory Engagement at global or lead-regulator level.
- C-Suite Influence and enterprise-wide change leadership.
- Strategic Continuity Planning including cyber, resolution and pandemic response.
- Operational Risk with a strong focus on resilience.
- Enterprise Project Delivery across business process, technology, cyber and third-party risk.