About the Role
Join our Digital & Data team working alongside product, design, and other experts to bring ideas to life through innovative software solutions. Grow a flexible and unique career within a trust-based, inclusive environment that values excellence, innovation, and curiosity. Progress on a technical career track with the option to focus on client-centricity. This role involves analyzing end-to-end operations for business resilience, moving beyond traditional business continuity management, and critically assessing resilience in all vulnerable areas of the organization. You will play a part in shaping and developing PA's Operational Resilience team, contributing to thought leadership and creating assets that enhance the team's capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Analyse end-to-end operations for business resilience.
- Work with a broader approach, moving beyond traditional business continuity management in today's organisations.
- Critically assess resilience in all vulnerable areas of the organization.
- Handle diverse resilience elements, including third parties, people, security, and vital IT functions.
- Shape and develop PA's Operational Resilience team.
- Contribute to thought leadership and create assets that enhance the team's capabilities.
Requirements
- Consultants with the multi-disciplinary outlook to deliver a view of what makes a business resilient.
- Ambitious consultant with a passion for designing resilience businesses and building a more robust economy.
- Self-motivated individual with an unwavering sense of pride in their work and a clear record of success.
- Stakeholder management skills, capable of managing interactions across the business.
- Knowledge of the operations of an information technology department and its importance to successful business operations.
- Confidence and interest in where IT can make a business vulnerable.
- Technical experience (typically three years +) in many of the following is essential (including regulatory requirements): Operational Resilience, Business Continuity, Third Party Risk Management, OCIR, Crisis Management, IT Service Management, IT continuity, Security, Risk Management, Supply Chain Resilience, Disaster Recovery.
- Familiarity with IT service models such as COBIT and ITIL would be beneficial.
- Experience of relevant international standards for resilience, risk management, information security and service continuity.
- Certification to relevant industry bodies such as; BCI, DRI, CISSP, IRM would be desirable.
- Familiarity with Financial Services Regulation and a financial services background.
- Must meet residency requirements for UK security clearance (British citizen or resident in the UK for the past 5 years).
Skills
- Operational Resilience
- Business Continuity
- Third Party Risk Management
- OCIR
- Crisis Management
- IT Service Management
- IT continuity
- Security
- Risk Management
- Supply Chain Resilience
- Disaster Recovery
- COBIT
- ITIL
- Stakeholder management
Location
- UK
- Ireland
- US
- Nordics
- Netherlands
Work Type
- Hybrid working (minimum 2 days per week in office or client site)
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Three years + technical experience
Benefits
- Private healthcare for you and your family
- 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve)
- Opportunity to buy 5 additional days of annual leave
- Generous company pension scheme
- Community and charity-based initiatives
- Annual performance-based bonus
- PA share ownership
- Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn)
About the Company
- We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future.
- We challenge where it matters and own the outcome.
- We combine strategic thinking, customer-centric service design, and agile engineering practices to accelerate innovation in a tech-driven world.
- Our teams of interdisciplinary experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster.
- Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.
- We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists.
- We have deep expertise in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport.
- Our teams operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands.
- PA. Bringing Ingenuity to Life.
- Life At PA encompasses our peoples' experience at PA. It's about how we enrich peoples’ working lives by giving them access to unique people and growth opportunities and purpose led meaningful work.
- Our purpose guides how we work with our clients and our teams, and support our communities, to deliver insight and impact, solving the world’s most complex challenges.
- We're focused on building a workplace that values human difference and diverse mindsets, and a culture of inclusion and equality that unlocks the potential in our people so everyone can be their best self.
Equal Opportunity
- We are committed to advancing equality. We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief, veteran status, any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience.
- We welcome applications from underrepresented groups.
- Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us on [email protected]
