Senior Business Continuity Specialist

Location: Hybrid, site-based in Milton Keynes or Glasgow, United Kingdom; office attendance required at least 12 days per month. Candidates must have the right to work in the UK.

Salary: £76,385–£114,577 per annum, depending on experience; based on a standard 35-hour working week.

Company

hirify.global is a global financial services organisation developing technology-enabled financial solutions across on-premise and cloud platforms.

What you will do

• Own, maintain and continuously improve the enterprise Business Continuity Management and risk-and-control frameworks.
• Embed continuity policies, standards, methodologies and business adoption across business-as-usual activities and material change.
• Define requirements for business impact analysis, dependency assessment, recovery strategies, continuity plans and exercising programmes.
• Oversee testing, assurance, management information and remediation of continuity weaknesses and control gaps.
• Own the Operational Continuity in Resolution framework, translating regulatory requirements into sustainable processes, controls and governance.
• Provide specialist advice, constructive challenge and risk recommendations to senior management, Risk, Internal Audit and regulatory stakeholders.

Requirements

• Extensive experience developing, embedding and improving enterprise-wide business continuity frameworks, policies and standards in financial services or a similarly regulated organisation.
• Proven experience establishing risk and control frameworks, assessing control effectiveness, and identifying, escalating and remediating continuity risks.
• Substantial practical experience with business impact analyses, recovery requirements, dependency assessments, continuity strategies and business continuity plans.
• Demonstrable experience designing and overseeing continuity exercising programmes and using tests, incidents and assurance findings to improve recovery capability.
• Practical experience developing or maintaining OCIR frameworks, including processes, controls and evidence supporting continuity of critical services in resolution.
• Experience translating regulatory requirements into business requirements, supporting regulatory and audit reviews, and delivering sustainable remediation.
• Significant experience advising senior leaders, influencing cross-functional stakeholders and presenting risk insights to governance forums.
• Experience delivering enterprise-wide continuity improvement initiatives and demonstrating framework adoption through management information.
• Expertise in business continuity frameworks, business impact analysis, recovery planning, risk and control assessment, scenario design, continuity testing, OCIR, regulatory requirements, data analysis and reporting.
• Strong communication, influencing, collaboration, critical-thinking, strategic-thinking, adaptability and prioritisation skills.
• Relevant academic qualification and recognised risk professional certification are preferred.

Nice to have

• Spanish language skills.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid working with site attendance requirements and a standard 35-hour working week.
• 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, increasing to 31 days after five years, with the option to purchase up to five contractual days annually.
• £6,000 annual car allowance, private medical insurance, income protection and death-in-service benefits.
• Share plans, staff product benefits, wellbeing support, enhanced family leave, childcare options and discounted fitness access.
• Volunteering opportunities and global growth opportunities across hirify.global’s international network.

Hiring process

• Submit an application for the role; recruitment assistance is available through resourcing@hirify.global.co.uk.