Operational Resilience Specialist, Aviva
3 days a week in office
Insurance, wealth and retirement business
Open for applications
Insurance, wealth and retirement business
1001+ employees
Open for applications
3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be with people when it really matters, throughout their lives.
Role
Who you are
- Strong operational resilience experience within the financial services sector
- In-depth knowledge of relevant regulatory frameworks and industry standards (e.g. UK FCA/PRA Operational Resilience requirements, ISO 22301, EU DORA, Singapore MAS)
- Practical experience in IT and disaster recovery (DR), including running crisis simulation exercises and coordinating joint third- and fourth-party scenario testing
- Proven experience applying industry standards and best practice in governance frameworks
- Relevant professional certifications (e.g. Business Continuity Institute (BCI) or Disaster Recovery Institute International (DRII))
- We’re inclusive and welcome everyone – we want applications from all backgrounds and experiences. Excited but not sure you tick every box? Even if you don’t, we would still encourage you to apply
What the job involves
- We are recruiting for Operational Resilience Specialist to join our team
- This is a great opportunity for someone who has a proven track record in designing, implementing, testing and delivering operational resilience, Disaster Recovery (DR) and business continuity frameworks within a buy/sell side financial services environment
- As part of a small, high-impact team, you will play a key role in delivering business-critical regulatory objectives, working closely with senior leaders, accountable executives and SMF24 stakeholders across the Business Unit
- You will help design and implement both the business and operational resilience strategy, ensuring resilience is embedded by design holistically across Aviva Investors
- Day-to-day, you will help provide oversight and input into activities delivered by Group Operational Resilience, respondto incidents through effective ‘in the moment’ support and drive recovery & remediation actions and run testing exercises of all types of operational dependencies
- You will contribute across a broad range of operational resilience topics, supporting compliance throughout the lifecycle of annual activities and ad hoc projects
- In this role, you will support the implementation and ongoing coordination of the Business Continuity and Crisis Management framework, working collaboratively with internal and Aviva plc stakeholders to meet requirements
- You will build a strong understanding of the organisational model and operating environment to identify improvement opportunities and provide constructive challenge, ensuring resilience and recovery capabilities are robust and fit for purpose
- You will also help embed a ‘resilience by design’ mindset across the business, support the delivery of the operational resilience strategy through effective governance and risk frameworks, and contribute to the timely and accurate reporting of resilience insights to risk committees and governance forums
Salary benchmarks
Our take
With 18 million international customers, Aviva is the largest provider of insurance and leading life and pension funds in the UK. With a history that dates back to the founding of Hand in Hand Fire & Life Insurance Society in 1696, Aviva’s current form is thanks to a merger between Norwich Union and CGU plc in the year 2000.
Over the noughties, Aviva grew its market out to Europe and established a high-profile foothold in America thanks to the most expensive advertising campaign of the time that included celebrities Alice Cooper and Bruce Willis. Into the 2010s, the insurance broker was forced to restructure and close a large number of its non-core businesses in a bid to increase its shareholder returns and streamline its focus. In 2012 it sold its US wing to Athene Holding to further this goal.
Now stripped back after selling off subsidiaries in Indonesia, Italy, and many other countries, Aviva is refocusing on pensions. In the wake of a Pensions Dashboard Programme delay in the UK, Aviva partnered with the likes of Scottish Widows, Legal & General and Standard Life to participate in the programme as a leader in its field. This exemplifies Aviva’s renewed focus on the fintech sector, all whilst serving as a national analyst during the cost-of-living crisis, thanks to its annual Age of Ambiguity study.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
Leadership
Amanda Blanc
(Group CEO)Currently Group Board Non-Executive Director at BP. Previously Chairman of the Welsh Rugby Union, Senior Advisor at Trov, CEO at Zurich Insurance Company.
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