Location
GBR-Nottingham-1 Chapel Qtr

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
The Senior Manager, Scenario Testing & Regulatory Compliance is responsible for leading the D&A Scenario Testing Programme and driving operational resilience maturity across the organisation. This role ensures resilience testing capabilities meet regulatory requirements, support critical service continuity, and provide evidence for audits, regulatory reviews, and customer assurance activities. You will establish testing standards, plan and deliver resilience exercises, identify improvement opportunities, and drive remediation activities while ensuring compliance with DORA, Operational Resilience regulations, ISO 22301 standards, and emerging regulatory requirements such as UK Critical Third Party (CTP) regulations. Key responsibilities include owning and enhancing the Scenario Testing strategy and roadmap, leading the design and execution of severe-but-plausible resilience scenarios, measuring and reporting resilience maturity and testing outcomes, acting as the subject matter expert for resilience-related regulatory requirements, coordinating regulatory reviews and audits, identifying resilience gaps and driving remediation initiatives, and partnering with senior leaders across multiple teams to facilitate workshops and present outcomes to governance forums.

Experience
Extensive experience in Operational Resilience, Business Continuity, Technology Risk, or Regulatory Compliance. Proven track record leading scenario testing and resilience programmes. Strong understanding of DORA, Operational Resilience, ICT Risk, and Business Continuity frameworks. Experience managing regulatory audits, reviews, and remediation programmes. Preferred experience within Financial Services or other regulated industries and knowledge of Critical Third Party (CTP) requirements. Professional certifications are beneficial.

About you
Excellent stakeholder management, facilitation, and influencing skills. Ability to work collaboratively with senior leaders across Technology, Operations, Risk, Compliance, Security, Audit, and Business Continuity teams. Motivated to drive operational resilience improvements and ensure regulatory compliance. Strong communicator capable of presenting complex information to executive-level audiences.

Qualifications
Relevant professional certifications in Operational Resilience, Risk Management, or related fields are advantageous but not mandatory.