Resilience Specialist

Job Description

At Aberdeen our ambition is to be the UKs leading Wealth & Investments group.

Strengthening talent and culture is one of our strategic priorities. We strive to make Aberdeen a great place to work so that we can attract and retain the industrys best talent.

Our people put our stakeholders at the heart of everything they do by helping us to make a positive difference to the lives of our clients customers colleagues shareholders and society.

We are focused on growing our direct and advised wealth platforms and repositioning our specialist asset management business to meet client demand. We are committed to providing excellent client service supported by leading technology and talent.

Aberdeen comprises three businesses interactive investor (ii) Investments and Adviser each of which focuses on meeting and adapting to our clients evolving needs:

• interactive investor the UKs second largest direct-to-consumer investment platform enables individuals in the UK to plan save and invest in the way that works for them.

• Our Adviser business provides financial planning solutions and technology for UK financial advisers enabling them to create value for their customers.

• Our Investments business is a specialist asset manager that focuses on areas where we have both strength and scale to capitalise on the key themes shaping the market through either public markets or alternative asset classes.

The Resilience Specialist plays a vital role within the Business Resilience Team supporting the development upkeep and ongoing enhancement of the organisations Resilience capability. The role contributes to resilience planning data analysis response testing and documentation maintenance to ensure the firm can operate safely and effectively during incidents or disruptions. It is well suited to someone with an academic background in resilience or with relevant transferable skills and an eagerness to learn and develop their knowledge across Aberdeens Resilience functions Operational and Digital Resilience Business Continuity Crisis and Incident Management and Physical Security.

Key Responsibilities

• Work with colleagues across Group business risk and compliance Operational Risk IT and other supporting functions help gather information and maintain an organisational view of resilience capabilities.

• Build strong working relationships with stakeholders to support smooth delivery of resilience activities.

• Assist with supporting delivery of elements of the Resilience Framework by following established processes and templates.

• Support mapping of important business services processes and dependencies (people technology third parties facilities).

• Support and guide business areas to update resilience documents such as the Business Impact Analyses (BIAs) and resilience plans ensuring documentation remains current and aligned to policy.

• Provide administrative and planning support for resilience tests and exercises (e.g. calltree tests scenario exercises recovery testing).

• Analyse data collated from the business inputs (via BIAs plans tests etc) validating data is accurate and ensure resilience gaps are captured.

• Prepare dashboards MI packs and status updates for senior stakeholders.

• Analyse performance metrics to identify trends gaps and opportunities for enhancement.

Experience required;
Familiarity with relevant Resilience regulations and standards including PS21/3 Operational Resilience DORA and ISO22301.
Knowledge or experience of current thinking in Operational Resilience
Business Continuity Crisis & Incident Management and/or Physical Security
Ability to demonstrate strong stakeholder management with experience of
working confidently with varied stakeholders
Demonstrated ability to produce clear concise documentation and reporting
including reports and presentations for a range of audiences.

Desirable experience;
Degree (or equivalent experience in business finance resilience risk
management or similar discipline)
Resilience certifications such as CBCI CISM or ISO 22301 Implementer/Auditor.
Understanding of financial services asset management operations and/or
platform services
Knowledge and experience of ServiceNow

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer. If you have a disability and would like to apply to one of our UK roles under the Disability Confident Scheme please notify us by completing the relevant section in our candidate questionnaire. One of our team will reach out to support you through your application process.

Our benefits

Theres more to working life than coming home with a good salary. We have an environment where you can learn get involved and be supported.

When you join us your reward will be one of the best around. This includes 40 days annual leave a 16% employer pension contribution a discretionary performance-based bonus (where applicable) private healthcare and a range of flexible benefits including gym discounts season ticket loans and access to an employee discount portal. You can read more about our benefitshere.

Our business

Enabling our clients to be better investors drives everything we do. Our business is structured around three distinct areas our vectors of growth focused on our clients changing needs. You can find out more about what we dohere.

An inclusive way of working

Whatever way you like to work if you have the talent and commitment to join our team wed like to hear from you.

At Aberdeen weve adopted a blended working approach. This approach combines the benefits of face-to-face collaboration coaching and connecting in our offices with the flexibility of working from home. It enables colleagues to find a balance that works for their roles their teams our clients and our business.

An inclusive culture where diverse perspectives drive our actions is at the core of who we are and what we do. If you need assistance with your application or a reasonable adjustment to your interview arrangements for example because you are neurodivergent or have a physical sensory cognitive mental visible or invisible disability please let us know and well be happy to help.

Were committed to providing an inclusive workplace where all forms of difference are valued and which is free from any form of unfair or unlawful treatment. We define diversity in its broadest sense this includes but is not limited to our diversity of educational and professional backgrounds experience cognitive and neurodiversity age gender gender identity sexual orientation disability religion or belief and ethnicity and geographical provenance. We support a culture that values meritocracy fairness and transparency and welcomes enquiries from everyone.

If you need assistance or an adjustment due to a disability please let us know as part of your application and we will assist.