Senior Operational Resilience Consultant 11 views

About the Role

We have a new opportunity within Protection and Resilience as a Senior Operational Resilience Consultant.  Reporting to the Head of Operational Resilience you will be responsible for refining and implementing an Operational Resilience framework and related policies, with day-to-day oversight of the execution of the Operational Resilience framework across Allianz UK.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure IBSs and impact tolerances across Allianz UK are maintained and updated reflecting changes in the business, including all required approvals from business areas and supporting functions such as risk
• Review and continually improve the mapping of underlying supporting assets across all relevant pillars
• Review and refine the resilience controls/metrics used to assess vulnerability of mapped assets (resilience assessments)
• Coordinate and oversee regular completion of resilience assessments for identified important business services.
• Govern the process of identifying, classifying and prioritising specific vulnerabilities related to IBSs, including escalating any unresolved issues to relevant fora or executives
• Govern the execution of vulnerability remediation, ensuring compliance with agreed risk appetites
• Facilitate the definition and refining of an IBS-level view of risks/threats, to be used as a basis the development of severe but plausible testing scenarios

About You

Essential skills: 

• Excellent interpersonal and stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to communicate and influence at all levels
• Proven analytical skills with great attention to detail, with the ability to maintain the broader view.
• Ability to drive awareness of resilience topics across the organisation
• Ability to prioritise work effectively, achieving deadlines, demonstrating a flexible and innovative working style
• Experience of planning and facilitating workshops small and medium-complexity
• Demonstrates excellent team working skills, supporting other team members

Desirable skills:

• Previous experience working in areas of governance, risk or business continuity
• Self-motivated and achievement orientated
• Willingness to learn and develop through self-driven personal development

What We Will Offer You 

We offer hybrid working, you’ll combine working from our Guildford office (twice a week) with working from home.

Our Benefits
Recognised and rewarded for a job well done, we have a range of flexible benefits for you to choose from, including, retail discounts, discounted insurance cover and our ElectriX car purchase scheme, so you can pick a package that’s perfect for you. We also offer flexible working options, global career opportunities across the wider Allianz Group, and fantastic career development and training. That’s on top of enjoying all the benefits you’d expect from the world’s number one insurance brand, including:

• 25 days + bank holidays
• Annual performance related bonus
• Generous pension contributions and Life Cover upto 4 x salary
• Career development – including our mentoring scheme, we’ll provide you with the tools to develop with us, so you can grow your career, while building the skills needed for whatever the future brings