Job Title: Resilience Support Analyst

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: Edinburgh or Alderley Edge

Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based

Closing date: 5th May 2024

We are seeking a highly motivated and meticulous individual to join our team as a Resilience Support Analyst at Royal London. As a Resilience Support Analyst, you will be responsible for providing crucial support in maintaining business continuity and preparing our organisation for the upcoming operational resilience regulatory deadlines, and beyond. This is a great entry level role, for someone who already has a keen interest in operational resilience, looking for their next progressive role.

The successful candidate will have excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, a strong attention to detail, and the ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams. You will partner closely with the wider Resilience team to develop and implement strategies to mitigate risks and enhance our organization's resilience.

About the role

• Proactively support the delivery and governance of scenario exercises.
• You will support the team in coordination meetings.
• Driving and tracking continuous improvement through monitoring of our risk posture and tracking of outstanding actions.
• Learn all about Royal London business areas and how they interact, including up and downstream dependencies, to support effective Operational Resilience.
• Learn or increase knowledge across all Pillars of Resilience which include Cyber, Technology, Supply Chain, People and Facilities.
• Understand the policy, structure, and governance for Operational Resilience and support us in compliance.

About you

• Keen interest to learn and develop within Operational Resilience, and best practice in Business Continuity.
• Has ability to do research and find external resources to support training material and build knowledge of regulatory expectations for Operational Resilience.
• Analytical with strong Excel skills (PowerBI desirable).

• Excellent communication both written and verbal.
• Working knowledge of financial institution functional areas (operational areas/ finance/ technology/ supply chain/ property/ Cyber).

About Royal London

We’re the UK’s largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings and asset management products and services.   

Our People Promise to our colleagues is that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve. 

We've always been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays, an up to 14% employer matching pension scheme and private medical insurance. You can see all our benefits here - Our Benefits

Inclusion, diversity and belonging. 

We’re an Inclusive employer. We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across Royal London. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected – whatever their background.