Operational Resilience Analyst

• Department:
  Operations - Operational Resilience

The Operational Resilience team is a first line assurance oversight team who work with colleagues at all levels across the business to understand our business services, their underlying processes and ensure their dependencies are mapped, regularly tested, and reported appropriately. The Operational Resilience Analyst delivers varied programme of work which is documented in the Operational Resilience Plan.

As an Operational Resilience Analyst, you will also play a role in ensuring the firm meets its obligations under the FCA’s Consumer Duty.

Your work will directly support the firm’s commitment to delivering good outcomes for customers including ensuring continued resiliency of the assets which we rely on to deliver services to our customers.

What does the job involve?

The Operational Resilience Analyst is responsible for the delivery of the Operational Resilience objectives as set out in the Operational Resilience Methodology. This is achieved by;

• Taking ownership of several resilience mapping workbooks and ensuring that they remain current and complete, clearly evidencing where there are contingency gaps.
• Supports the Operational Resilience Manager to review Impact Tolerances, ensuring relevant metrics are collated, analysed and documented.
• Leading on the delivery and robust documentation of a broad range of scenario tests, which includes producing delivery slides, running desktop exercises, performing data analysis, and simulation exercises and ensuring all related materials are accurate and complete.
• Assisting with the design of resilience targets, working with the wider business to ensure that resilience tests are performed where necessary by Technology Services
• Takes ownership of documenting in-depth lessons learned and vulnerabilities following scenario testing or real disruption and can articulate the findings to a senior audience
• Maintaining and/or monitoring resilience related policies, procedures and response plans.
• Producing clear and accurate MI and reporting in various formats each month
• Assists with the collation and documentation of Third Party Supplier resilience assurance and escalates effectively where there are resilience gaps.

What you'll have

This role sits within the First Line Assurance Oversight team and is ideal for someone with a strong understanding of our business operations or previous experience in Operational Resilience. The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate the following skills and experience;

• Minimum of three years’ experience in the Financial Services sector within an oversight role or a role which has required meticulous documentation and professionalism.
• Highly organised with a strong sense of governance
• Can work independently as well as part of a team
• Able to communicate proactively and confidently to influence stakeholders across the business
• Is forward thinking and anticipates deadlines without prompting
• Has a genuine interest in resilience and strengthening our capabilities and contingency planning
• Has a strong sense of ownership

About us:

AJ Bell is one of the fastest-growing investment platform businesses in the UK offering an award-winning range of solutions that caters for everyone, from professional financial advisers to DIY investors with little to no experience. We have over 644,000 customers using our award-winning platform propositions to manage assets totalling more than £103.3 billion. Our customers trust us with their investments, and by continuously striving to make investing easier, we aim to help even more people take control of their financial futures.

Having listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange in December 2018, AJ Bell is now a FTSE 250 company.

Headquartered in Manchester with offices in central London and Bristol, we now have over 1,500 employees and have been named one of the UK's 'Best 100 Companies to Work For’ for six consecutive years and in 2025 named a Great Place to Work®.

At AJ Bell you can expect a friendly working environment with a strong sense of teamwork, we have a great sense of pride in what we do, and this is reflected in our guiding…