Operational Resilience Testing Manager

Job Summary

Group Resilience is responsible for driving and delivering the Banks resilience capabilities spanning operational resilience, operational continuity in resolution, technology resilience, business continuity management and crisis management across the Bank. We partner with our businesses and across both lines of defence to define and manage the Banks most important business services (IBS), enabling product and segment CEOs to set impact tolerances thresholds for those services and ensures the operational assets which support them are built, maintained, and changed in BAU with resilient service in mind and that the Bank can continue to provide those services during crisis.

The role holder will be responsible for scenario testing and vulnerability management practices for Operational Resilience, and partner and collaborate across the Bank to grow the maturity of the Group’s pan-bank scenario testing programme to enable SCB to continue to assess risk and associated mitigation strategies along with being responsible for the end-to-end process for scenario testing. The role holder will then support how vulnerabilities identified through scenario testing and other vulnerability assessment methods are managed through to remediation.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for the scenario testing practices within Group Operational Resilience.
• Manage the identification, planning, execution, lessons learnt, vulnerability identification and management and reporting of scenario testing across severe but plausible scenarios.
• Manage and maintain SCB’s testing catalogue and threat landscape, working with appropriate RFO’s.
• Undertake horizon scanning to identify potential threats to the Bank and to learn from events impacting other financial institutions.
• Co-ordinate and plan scenario testing across the Bank to ensure alignment and efficiencies across testing within other areas of the Bank (e.g. Cyber, Technology, Risk and Crisis).
• Ensure effectiveness of scenario testing is in line with the Groups’ Operational Resilience Standard.
• Manage updates to risk committees relating to testing activities for Operational Resilience.
• Responsible for the assessment and validation of potential vulnerabilities that may threaten SCB’s ability to remain within impact tolerances.
• Ensure reporting and tracking of management information related to operational resilience vulnerabilities is accurate and clearly presented.
• Engage with Risk Management and vulnerability owners to assess the status of remediation activities and any delivery risks that require escalation.

Skills and Experience

About Standard Chartered

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What we offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

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