Senior Business Continuity Officer

Job Description:

Our client, a successful financial services firm, has a permanent opportunity for an experienced Business Continuity Professional based in their office in Newcastle.

As part of the Group Resilience function, you will lead the design and enhancement of business continuity frameworks, strategies, and exercises.

This highly visible role will see you collaborate with senior leaders and stakeholders across the business, embedding resilience into operations and ensuring regulatory obligations are met.

• Extensive experience in business continuity and organisational resilience, ideally within financial services.


• Strong knowledge of ISO 22301, operational resilience regulation, and third-party risk management.


• Proven ability to engage and influence stakeholders at all levels.


• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.


• Relevant professional certification(s), such as CBCI or ISO 22301 Lead Implementer/Auditor.


• Adaptable, pragmatic, and comfortable working under pressure while managing competing priorities.

• Develop, maintain, and continually improve the Business Continuity Management System (BCMS).


• Conduct and review Business Impact Analyses (BIAs) and risk assessments.


• Design and deliver scenario-based continuity exercises.


• Advise senior leadership on continuity risks, recovery strategies, and controls.


• Ensure alignment with ISO 22301 and relevant UK regulatory frameworks (FCA, PRA).


• Support incident response planning and crisis management readiness.


• Promote awareness and foster a strong culture of resilience across the organisation.

Core-Asset Consulting is an equal opportunities recruiter and we welcome applications from everyone irrespective of age, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, race, colour, ethnic or national origin, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital/civil partner status or pregnancy.

Job reference: 16227

To apply for this vacancy applicants must be eligible to work in the UK in accordance with the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006.

At Core-Asset, we're committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.

Our privacy statement explains when and why we collect personal information about people who engage with our services, how we use it, the conditions under which we may disclose it to others, and how we keep it secure.

We may change this policy from time to time, so please check this policy occasionally to ensure that you're happy with any changes.

By engaging with us (either by applying for a job we're advertising, registering through our website, or getting in touch with our business) you're agreeing to be bound by this policy.

Core-Asset Consulting is committed to protecting the privacy of our candidates, clients and website users.

For further information, please refer to our full Privacy Statement available on our website http://www.core-asset.co.uk/about-core-asset/privacy-statement

Core-Asset Consulting offers specialist recruitment services to asset management, accounting & finance, asset servicing, legal and the wider financial services sector in Scotland.

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Our client, a successful financial services firm, has a permanent opportunity for an experienced Business Continuity Professional based in their office in Newcastle.

As part of the Group Resilience function, you will lead the design and enhancement of business continuity frameworks, strategies, and exercises.

This highly visible role will see you collaborate with senior leaders and stakeholders across the business, embedding resilience into operations and ensuring regulatory obligations are met.

• Extensive experience in business continuity and organisational resilience, ideally within financial services.


• Strong knowledge of ISO 22301, operational resilience regulation, and third-party risk management.


• Proven ability to engage and influence stakeholders at all levels.


• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.


• Relevant professional certification(s), such as CBCI or ISO 22301 Lead Implementer/Auditor.


• Adaptable, pragmatic, and comfortable working under pressure while managing competing priorities.

• Develop, maintain, and continually improve the Business Continuity Management System (BCMS).


• Conduct and review Business Impact Analyses (BIAs) and risk assessments.


• Design and deliver scenario-based continuity exercises.


• Advise senior leadership on continuity risks, recovery strategies, and controls.


• Ensure alignment with ISO 22301 and relevant UK regulatory frameworks (FCA, PRA).


• Support incident response planning and crisis management readiness.


• Promote awareness and foster a strong culture of resilience across the organisation.

Core-Asset Consulting is an equal opportunities recruiter and we welcome applications from everyone irrespective of age, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, race, colour, ethnic or national origin, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital/civil partner status or pregnancy.

Job reference: 16227

To apply for this vacancy applicants must be eligible to work in the UK in accordance with the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006.

At Core-Asset, we're committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.

Our privacy statement explains when and why we collect personal information about people who engage with our services, how we use it, the conditions under which we may disclose it to others, and how we keep it secure.

We may change this policy from time to time, so please check this policy occasionally to ensure that you're happy with any changes.

By engaging with us (either by applying for a job we're advertising, registering through our website, or getting in touch with our business) you're agreeing to be bound by this policy.

Core-Asset Consulting is committed to protecting the privacy of our candidates, clients and website users.

For further information, please refer to our full Privacy Statement available on our website http://www.core-asset.co.uk/about-core-asset/privacy-statement

Core-Asset Consulting offers specialist recruitment services to asset management, accounting & finance, asset servicing, legal and the wider financial services sector in Scotland.

INDPERM

Our client, a successful financial services firm, has a permanent opportunity for an experienced Business Continuity Professional based in their office in Newcastle.

As part of the Group Resilience function, you will lead the design and enhancement of business continuity frameworks, strategies, and exercises.

This highly visible role will see you collaborate with senior leaders and stakeholders across the business, embedding resilience into operations and ensuring regulatory obligations are met.

• Extensive experience in business continuity and organisational resilience, ideally within financial services.


• Strong knowledge of ISO 22301, operational resilience regulation, and third-party risk management.


• Proven ability to engage and influence stakeholders at all levels.


• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.


• Relevant professional certification(s), such as CBCI or ISO 22301 Lead Implementer/Auditor.


• Adaptable, pragmatic, and comfortable working under pressure while managing competing priorities.

• Develop, maintain, and continually improve the Business Continuity Management System (BCMS).


• Conduct and review Business Impact Analyses (BIAs) and risk assessments.


• Design and deliver scenario-based continuity exercises.


• Advise senior leadership on continuity risks, recovery strategies, and controls.


• Ensure alignment with ISO 22301 and relevant UK regulatory frameworks (FCA, PRA).


• Support incident response planning and crisis management readiness.


• Promote awareness and foster a strong culture of resilience across the organisation.

Core-Asset Consulting is an equal opportunities recruiter and we welcome applications from everyone irrespective of age, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, race, colour, ethnic or national origin, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital/civil partner status or pregnancy.

Job reference: 16227

To apply for this vacancy applicants must be eligible to work in the UK in accordance with the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006.

At Core-Asset, we're committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.

Our privacy statement explains when and why we collect personal information about people who engage with our services, how we use it, the conditions under which we may disclose it to others, and how we keep it secure.

We may change this policy from time to time, so please check this policy occasionally to ensure that you're happy with any changes.

By engaging with us (either by applying for a job we're advertising, registering through our website, or getting in touch with our business) you're agreeing to be bound by this policy.

Core-Asset Consulting is committed to protecting the privacy of our candidates, clients and website users.

For further information, please refer to our full Privacy Statement available on our website http://www.core-asset.co.uk/about-core-asset/privacy-statement

Core-Asset Consulting offers specialist recruitment services to asset management, accounting & finance, asset servicing, legal and the wider financial services sector in Scotland.

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