Business Continuity & Operational Resilience Oversight Risk Specialist

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  • Permanent
  • 140749
  • Leeds, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Halifax, Hamilton
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End date

Friday 05 September 2025

Salary range

Agile Working Options

Job Share; Hybrid Working

Job description

JOB TITLE: Business Continuity & Operational Resilience Oversight Risk Specialist

SALARY: £65,385 - £79,915

LOCATION(S): Leeds, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Edinburgh or Halifax

HOURS: Full time

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in one of the above offices. Please note we have a focus on growing in the sites listed, so other key LBG locations might not be suitable for this role.
 

About this opportunity

We’re looking for two Business Continuity & Operational Resilience Oversight managers to join us during a period of exciting transformation and growth. You'll support the team in developing a Business Continuity & Operational Resilience centre of excellence in the management of risk, to assist robust risk management in alignment with the Group’s Enterprise Risk Management Framework (ERMF).
 

Day to day you’ll be;

  • Acting as one of the Group’s Operational Risk specialists, specifically on business continuity and resilience, building strong relationships with internal and external partners.

  • Supporting the development, implementation and evolution of Business Continuity and Operational Resilience Risk policies and appetite, including tolerances and thresholds. Facilitating the understanding and adherence throughout the organisation, including ongoing management and continuous monitoring.

  • Interpreting new Business Continuity & Operational Resilience risk regulation accurately and adeptly. Forethinking the direction of travel and anticipating the impact of the proposed changes on the Group.

  • Helping shape the policy, appetite and approach around our Group-level Incident Management capability, ensuring regulatory expectations and industry best-practice around Incident Management and Response are reflected in control objectives and oversight.

  • Providing oversight and challenge of each Business Unit Business Continuity & Operational Resilience risk profile, and plays a role in challenging and ensuring appropriate, proportional, and accurate reporting to governance committees.

  • Identifying & assessing emerging & growing risks, ensuring policies and appetite reflect new opportunities or threats.

About us

If you think all banks are the same, you’d be wrong. We’re an innovative, fast-changing business that’s shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that’s empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose.
 

What you’ll need:

  • Experience in Operational Resilience and Business Continuity, with specific knowledge of relevant regulation (e.g. SS1/21/SYSC 15A).

  • Demonstrates knowledge of relevant laws, regulation, industry standards and established industry leading practices.

  • Experience of contributing to the development of group-level policy and setting risk-appetite, with expertise in continuous monitoring and reporting on group exposure.

  • Ability to support the delivery of the management strategy for complex Financial Services organisations and contribute to the transformation of policies and frameworks to deliver this vision.

  • Strong depth of understanding of the latest Operational Risk frameworks and technology being used across financial and non-financial services.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

  • A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

  • An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance

  • Share schemes including free shares

  • Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping

  • 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top

  • A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.

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At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

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