Project Manager – Fixed Term Contract (3 – 4 Months)

A small prestigious international bank is seeking an experienced Project Manager to assist with projects covering Operational Resilience & Business Continuity, IT & Cyber Resilience and Third-Party Risk Management.

Your responsibilities will cover:

* Updating the Bank’s Operational Resilience Framework (to PRA/FCA requirements)

* Conducting, documenting and maintaining Business Impact Assessments, Business Continuity Plans and Disaster Recovery strategies

* Coordinating resilience testing, including crisis simulations, system outage scenarios etc

* Reporting on resilience readiness and vulnerabilities

* CIS Procedures Gap Analysis

* Partnering with IT and Cyber teams to ensure technology resilience for critical services around RTO, RPO, backup, and failover

* Supporting IT Service Continuity Management testing

* Ensuring alignment with cybersecurity frameworks (NIST, ISO 27001) and PRA/FCA expectations

* Monitoring and challenging third-party/vendor resilience

* Overseeing Third Party Risk Management

Your experience must include:

* Strong proven experience in Operational Resilience, Business Continuity Plans and Disaster Recovery gained with banking

* Familiarity with regulatory expectations such as PRA/FCA Operational Resilience, SMCR, PSD2/PSRs etc is essential

* Extensive operational risk management and analytical skills

* Excellent communication skills both written and oral to liaise at all levels

* Proactive and practical approach and ability to multi task

* Degree educated

This is a hybrid role working 3 days a week in the London office and 2 days remotely