Operational Resilience Scenario Planning Lead

HSBC HBEU Operational Resilience are a global team of c.35 FTE's who provide support for 9 markets in both their compliance to local resilience regulations and global resilience frameworks. As well as providing flexible support to each of the markets, this team are responsible for providing a cross-market view by sharing insights, driving efficiencies, executing resilience testing, and ensuring a consistent standard is achieved across all HBEU markets. In this fantastic, new, significant role, you will report into the Head of Operational Resilience, HSBC Bank plc and Europe. This is a rare opportunity to work across both PRA Supervisory Statement SS1 / 21 and the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) The key aspect to your role will be to lead a Scenario Oversight team, responsible for the performance of all scenario testing across HBEU markets to understand and validate the resilience of Important Business Services (IBSs) and Important Group Business Services (IGBS). This will include overseeing the identification of relevant threats, the design of testing plans and severe but plausible testing scenarios, leading the delivery of tests involving senior stakeholders, and ensuring the identification of lessons learnt. In this role you will :

• Oversee the maintenance of an HBEU High-level Threat Register, including the results of threat assessments to establish an inventory of potential threats to IBS or IGBS resilience with the potential to cause intolerable harm.
• Deliver relevant threat reporting to governance committees within the central HBEU Operational Resilience team, the local entities, as well as relevant Business Service Owners.
• Agree the interpretation of threat intelligence to inform the design of Group, Entity, and IBS / IGBS test plans, including the design of a severe but plausible testing scenario.
• Oversee the maintenance of an HBEU scenarios library, ensuring full alignment with the HBEU High-level Threat Register, as well as incorporating any Group guidance.
• Oversee the design of Group, Entity, and IBS test plans, and manage progress through governance. These plans should include the selection of a relevant scenario supported by detailed rationale, test objectives, and relevant stakeholders to be included in the test,
• Manage the development of a storyline for use in the test, including trigger events, and injects to represent how the scenario would develop over time.
• Lead the execution of testing involving senior stakeholders or oversee execution by members of the Scenario Oversight team. This will include providing a pre-test briefing, establishing rules of engagement, delivering the exercise scenarios and any injects, taking notes of the participants response to the scenario, and following the conclusion of the test leading completion of a lessons learnt exercise.
• Oversee the documentation of a post-test report including a summary of the test, a summary of the participants response, an evaluation against the test objectives, any vulnerabilities that were identified to IBS or IGBS resilience, as well as any lessons learnt for the future completion of testing. This report will then be presented as relevant to HBEU or individual market governance committees.
To be successful in this role you should meet the following requirements :
• SME level testing experience using BCIM scenario analysis, ICAAP or OPRES scenario threat management tools.
• SME level experience developing and conducting resilience testing, under a range of testing formats (e.g. component-level testing, scenario testing, incident response testing) to understand and improve the organisation's resilience.
• Advanced ability to identify and assess risks that could impact business operations and designing tests to evaluate the effectiveness of mitigation strategies.
• Experience leading a team of professionals of multiple levels of seniority, foster a culture of accountability and continuous improvement, and establish a delivery-mindset.
• Experienced in influencing, negotiating and challenging senior stakeholders.
• Knowledge and experience relating to the PRA Supervisory Statement SS1 / 21 and / or the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) is welcomed.
This role can be based in Edinburgh, Sheffield, or Birmingham on a hybrid basis. Being open to different points of view is important for our business and the communities we serve. At HSBC, we're dedicated to creating diverse and inclusive workplaces - no matter their gender, ethnicity, disability, religion, sexual orientation, or age. We are committed to removing barriers and ensuring careers at HSBC are inclusive and accessible for everyone to be at their best. We take pride in being a Disability Confident Leader and will offer an interview to people with disabilities, long term conditions or neurodivergent candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the role. If you have a need that requires accommodations or changes during the recruitment process, please get in touch with our Recruitment Helpdesk