Senior Analyst, Operational Resilience

Job Purpose

To co-ordinate and support the various aspects of ICE Clear Europe's ("ICEU") operational resilience framework. As a financial market infrastructure providing clearing services to global ICE exchanges and Clearing Members, clearing several million derivative contracts daily across multiple asset classes (energy, interest rates, equities and agriculture), ICEU's resilience to and recovery from service disruption events is of vital importance.

The role will report to ICEU's Senior Manager, Operational Resilience, and work closely with ICEU's Chief Operating Officer. The role will require extensive engagement and co-ordination with members of ICEU's Senior Management Team, critical first line teams such as Risk, Treasury and Operations, the second line risk oversight team and with wider ICE group functions such as Technology, Information Security, Business Continuity and Third-Party Risk Management.

The role will co-ordinate the routine review of relevant ICEU policies and procedures, the planning, co-ordination, execution and documentation of extreme but plausible testing exercises, contributing to the reporting of results and proposed enhancements to ICEU's Senior Management and Board, and supporting engagement with, where appropriate, ICEU's regulatory authorities.

Responsibilities

• Organise, plan and develop the ongoing programme of resilience testing, including physical exercising of business continuity and disaster recovery arrangements, crisis management and extreme but plausible scenario-based exercises.
• Co-ordinate ICEU's participation in relevant regulatory-led or industry-wide exercises.
• Document test results, lessons learnt and articulate any new risks and vulnerabilities identified, as well as developing and executing mitigation and/or remediation plans.
• To perform critical reviews of the overall framework, in liaison with second and third line risk teams, in order to propose and drive enhancements where appropriate, in line with industry best practice.
• Co-ordinate annual reviews of the framework to ensure that important business services, impact tolerances and extreme but plausible test scenarios remain appropriate for the business, and that dependency mapping is adequately documented.
• Co-ordinate and contribute to routine reviews of related ICEU policies and procedures, such as Operational Risk & Resilience, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery, Outsourcing & Third-Party Risk Management.
• Support first line teams to ensure that business continuity plans across ICEU are aligned to policy requirements and best practice.
• Assist first line teams with risk assessments of third-party service providers and associated resilience testing.
• To support engagement with ICEU's regulatory authorities where appropriate, including contributing to assessments of compliance with regulation such as the Bank of England's Operational Resilience Supervisory Policy and the EU's Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA).

Knowledge and Experience

• Experience in a similar operational resilience role within the financial industry.
• Knowledge of regulatory policies relating to operational resilience and third-party risk management.
• Experience in test and exercise coordination.
• Ability to work collaboratively to influence and deliver enhancements.
• Strong written and verbal communication and presentation skills required.
• Strong academic record including a relevant degree (or equivalent).