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About the role
Hargreaves Lansdown (HL) are now recruiting for a Scenario Testing Lead to join the team. This is a fast-paced role where you'll be responsible for leading the Scenario Testing Team, ensuring the multiyear scenario testing plan is executed and delivered in line with Operational Resilience regulations. This includes firm-wide collaboration at a senior level, to mature the testing plan and ensure alignment with areas included but not limited to, Consumer Duty, ICARA and Digital.
What you'll be doing
- Supporting the Senior Manager with the oversight of, a high quality, challenging Scenario Library which includes all types of testing required by Operational Resilience Regulations and Third-Party Risk Management regulations.
- Day to day management of the Scenario Testing Team, ensuring the execution of HL multiyear Scenario Testing Plan which includes Operational Resilience scenarios, Business Continuity testing and Gold/Board Team Testing.
- Ensuring that the scenario testing standards and processes are maintained and kept up to date, to ensure a culture of continuous learning.
- Ensuring that Operational Resilience and Crisis Management Playbooks are maintained and tested as required.
- Ensuring that horizon scanning is completed to inform testing and response.
- Responsible for embedding Scenario Testing and Operational Resilience within HL risk culture.
- Professional competence ensuring up to date regulatory knowledge and expertise through industry forums and broader engagement internally.
- Ensuring that appropriate communication strategies are included within testing and playbooks.
- Preparing periodic reports and develop metrics around scenario testing to inform senior management, and represent at the appropriate governance forums.
- Present and facilitate at senior level meetings including Bronze/Silver incidents as and when required Lead the maturity of the testing plan, ensuring that tests cover a range of type and complexity, including facilitated table top exercises, simulations, live testing and tests that include critical third-parties and multiple IBS.
About you
- Strong networking capability and influencing skills, at a senior level
- Ability to manage deadline-oriented work
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Results orientated
- Ability to manage a team Critical, analytical thinking and pragmatic problem solving
- Effective communication, negotiation, and presentation skills
- Good organisational, analytical and research skills
- Ability to work well under pressure
- Ability and experience to deputise for Senior Manager Scenario Testing and Incident Management including when required on industry and specific resilience related meetings
- Ability to work independently and with a high level of autonomy
Interview process
The interview process for this role will be a two stage interview with a task assessment.
Working Schedule
This role is based in Bristol head office, BS1 5HL. This role is permanent, full time, 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday. We have returned to the office, however for this role we offer a hybrid flexible working pattern to enable you the option of working from home and coming into the office.
Why us?
Here at HL, we're the UK's number 1 investment platform for private investors, based in Bristol. For more than 40 years we've helped investors save time, tax and money on their investments.
To achieve our mission, we believe we have a workplace like no other, with constant learning, dynamic teams, and a great ethos. We're steered by core values that promote service, quality, innovation, and opportunity in everything we do.
What's on offer?
- Discretionary annual bonus* and annual pay review
- 25 days* holiday plus bank holidays and 1-day additional Christmas closure
- Option to purchase an additional 5 days holiday**
- Flexible working options available, including hybrid working
- Enhanced parental leave
- Pension scheme up to 11% employer contribution
- Sharesave scheme - have a real stake in HL's future
- Income Protection and Life insurance (4 x salary core level of cover)
- Private medical insurance*
- Health care cash plans - including optical, dental, and outpatient care
- Help@hand - confidential support including mental health counselling and remote GP
- Wellhub - unlimited access to fitness providers and wellness coach sessions
- Variety of travel to work schemes with bike storage and shower facilities
- Inhouse barista and deli serving subsidised coffee and sandwiches
- Two paid volunteering days per year
- dependant on role level
- * only available to select during our annual benefits window, in November each year
Hargreaves Lansdown is an inclusive employer that values diversity in its workforce. We encourage applications from all individuals without regard to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or age.
This role may also be available on a flexible working or part time basis - please ask the Recruitment & Onboarding team for more information.
Please note, we are unable to provide employment sponsorship to candidates.