Testing and Exercising Specialist

About the Business

Quilter plc is a leading wealth management business, helping to enable brighter financial futures for every generation. Quilter oversees £157.4 billion in customer investments (as of August 2026). It has an adviser and customer offering spanning financial advice, investment platforms, multi-asset investment solutions, and discretionary fund management. The business is comprised of two segments:
Affluent and High Net Worth. Affluent encompasses the financial planning business, Quilter Financial Planning, the Quilter Investment Platform and Quilter Investors, the multi-asset investment solutions business. High Net Worth includes the discretionary fund management business, Quilter Cheviot, together with Quilter Cheviot Financial Planning – offering a highly personalised service to private clients, charities, trustees, and professional partners. Quilter Cheviot has presence throughout the UK, Ireland and Channel Islands.

At Quilter we never stand still. Our foundations are rooted in our extraordinary expertise, which is trusted by hundreds of thousands of customers, but we have great ambitions to stay one step ahead and make an even greater difference to the people and communities we serve, including our colleagues. Our business is transforming, continually modernising, and becoming even more customer centric.

So, if you want to be bold in the pursuit of your ambitions, bring new ideas, and challenge and evolve what we do, it’s the perfect time to join us!

Level: 4 Department:
Technology Function – Information Security

Location:

London, United Kingdom or Southampton, United Kingdom

Contract:

Permanent Regulated/Non-Regulated:
Non‑Regulated We are seeking a proactive, experienced and highly organised Testing & Exercising Specialist to join our Resilience & Crisis Team (RCT). This is an opportunity to shape and mature Quilter’s testing approach—moving beyond compliance‑led exercises into insightful testing that strengthens resilience and supports informed decision‑making at all levels. The Testing & Exercising Specialist is responsible for leading the coordination, planning, development, delivery and driving continuous improvement of severe but plausible Operational Resilience testing and exercising activities across Quilter.

The role will be responsible for delivering a structured Quilter wide testing programme that provides assurance over Quilter's operational resilience capabilities, important business services, critical processes and response arrangements. Working closely with Operational Resilience Specialists, Business Owners, Incident Managers, Technology Teams, Threat Intelligence functions and Risk stakeholders, the role will ensure testing activities are risk‑led, intelligence‑driven, realistic and aligned to regulatory expectations.

The individual will provide central oversight of all resilience‑related testing across Quilter, ensuring appropriate coverage against Operational Resilience requirements, Important Business Services, CMORG scenarios, open vulnerabilities and resilience capability pillars. They will drive consistency through testing standards, methodologies, templates, recording and operating procedures, while ensuring lessons learned are effectively translated into measurable resilience improvements. The RCT is responsible for ensuring all work conducted is of direct relevance to protecting both the organisation and the safety and security of company personnel, property and reputation.

Deliver Quilters Testing Strategy Lead and continuously enhance Quilters Operational Resilience Testing approach, framework and roadmap. Drive and deliver a risk‑based annual testing programme and rolling three‑year exercise plan.…