Operational Risk Consultant

Strategic Operational Resilience Programme within a leading Swiss financial institution. The objective is to develop a comprehensive, regulatorily compliant recovery plan for a critical banking service under a defined disruption scenario. The programme is already well established, with governance structures, workstreams and a target operating model in place. The current Business Recovery Stream Lead is leaving the project, and the new consultant will take ownership of the workstream through to successful completion.

Business Recovery & Operational Resilience

Lead the Business Recovery workstream and manage scope, timelines, deliverables and stakeholder expectations. Finalize the recovery plan for the first critical business service and plan, coordinate and execute a complete end to end recovery simulation. Develop a dependency and prioritization matrix for future critical services. Analyse business processes, operational dependencies and interfaces, and define recovery priorities across end to end banking processes. Define business requirements for technical recovery and emergency operations.

Recovery Framework & Concepts

Develop standardized templates for Business Recovery Plans and define concepts for data restoration and recovery scenarios. Address incomplete data states during recovery and define approaches to prevent duplicate transactions. Establish a scalable recovery framework that can be applied to additional critical banking services.

Stakeholder Management & Governance

Facilitate cross functional workshops and collaborate closely with Business, IT, Risk Management and Emergency Operations teams. Prepare decision papers, governance documentation and audit ready, regulatory compliant business documentation. Present recommendations and key decisions to programme leadership and governance committees.

Required Profile

Strong experience in Operational Resilience, Business Continuity Management, Business Recovery or a closely related field. Proven experience as a Workstream Lead, Business Recovery Lead or Project Lead. Strong understanding of business recovery processes and critical business services, ideally within Banking or Financial Services.

Experience planning and executing recovery simulations or recovery testing, combined with a strong understanding of business and IT dependencies. Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to work effectively with senior management and governance committees. Experience working within highly regulated environments is essential.

Benefits:

• Strategic role within a leading Swiss financial institution

• High visibility within a well established Operational Resilience programme

• Ownership of a critical Business Recovery workstream with direct impact on the wider resilience framework

• Opportunity to shape and standardize the recovery approach for additional critical banking services

• Close collaboration with senior stakeholders across Business, IT, Risk Management and Emergency Operations

• Opportunity to lead an end to end recovery simulation and establish a reference case for the programme

• Strong exposure to regulatory and operational resilience topics within the Swiss banking environment

• Long term potential to contribute to the further development of the Operational Resilience framework