EY Senior Consultant Operational Resilience Cyber Financial Services 

United Kingdom, England, London 

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Cyber & Resilience – Consulting – Enterprise Resilience Senior Consultant

Rising client expectations, third-party dependencies, and technological advancements paired with the severe consequences of disruption on firms’ reputations, revenue and client trust has led resilience to strengthen its place in the global regulatory landscape and

The role

The role is primarily focused on the development, delivery and assurance of operational and digital resilience programmes and related disciplines. This means helping clients understand and navigate new UK and international resilience-related regulations (e.g., UK FCA/PRA Operational Resilience, Digital Operational Resilience Act). You will support the delivery of resilience programmes, as well as some of the more foundational resilience disciplines such as business continuity, crisis management and testing.

Your key responsibilities

You will be working across a portfolio of engagements with our financial services clients, reporting to a Manager or Senior Manager. Your responsibilities will include:

• Supporting our clients in developing and enhancing their resilience frameworks and capabilities.
• Helping clients understand the regulatory requirements they are faced with.
• Conducting resilience assessments, gap analyses, impact tolerance assessments and tests across a range of severe but plausible scenarios to determine single points of failure and develop measures and roadmaps to remediate them.
• Facilitating simulation exercises and providing training to client teams.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure a holistic approach to resilience.
• Evaluating and creating measures and controls to implement the regulatory requirements in diverse client environments.
• Keeping abreast of regulatory changes, events, and industry best practices in resilience.
• Contributing to thought leadership and business development activities.
• Assisting in overseeing project metrics by organising staffing, tracking budget, and proactively communicating risks, issues, and dependencies to project leaders.

Skills and attributes for success

You will have a broad background across resilience and business continuity with an understanding of and interest in one or several of the following areas:

• Resilience regulatory requirements around business services/critical functions, mapping testing and managing vulnerabilities.
• Business continuity management and impact assessments.
• Design and implementation of governance frameworks, processes, and controls.
• Incident and crisis management policies, procedures, and practice.
• Information security and non-financial operational risk requirements and frameworks.
• OCIR/RRP.
• Security policies and procedures, standards, and controls in line with regulation and/or current standards (e.g. ISO27001).
• Data privacy, implementation of data protection/GDPR programmes to address confidentiality and security.

To qualify for the role, you must have:

• Strong academic record including a relevant undergraduate (Bachelors) degree.
• 2-3 years’ experience in a relevant industry (desirable: 12+ months experience in resilience, continuity or cyber).
• A passion for collaborating with a team and clients to solve complex problems.

Additional requirements (desirable):

• Experience in Financial Services, Consulting, Government Organisations or Military.
• Experience in resilience, business continuity,IT service continuity, crisis management, risk management, IT audit, incident management and response, third-party risk management and/or other related areas.
• Resilience/continuity related qualifications such as CBCI/AMBCI/MBCI, Master BCM, ISO22301 auditor, ISO 27001 auditor.
• Project and programme related qualifications; Prince II, Scrum, Agile.
• Informationsecurity and/or risk related qualifications such as CRISC, CISSP, CISA or equivalents.

What working at EY offers

• Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career.
• The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that’s right for you.
• Excellent training and development prospects, both through established programmes and on-the-job training.
• Support, coaching and feedback from our collaborative colleagues.
• An excellent team of senior colleagues, dedicated to managing and varying your workload and supporting your growth.
• An international work environment with a diverse and inclusive team.
• A competitive remuneration package. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings, and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions.