Operations Resilience Analyst

Job Description:

Job Title- Operations Resilience Analyst

Location- Pune, India

Role Description

About DWS:

Today, markets face a whole new set of pressures – but also a whole lot of opportunity too. Opportunity to innovate differently. Opportunity to invest responsibly. And opportunity to make change.

Join us at DWS, and you can be part of an industry-leading firm with a global presence. You can lead ambitious opportunities and shape the future of investing. You can support our clients, local communities, and the environment.

We’re looking for creative thinkers and innovators to join us as the world continues to transform. As whole markets change, one thing remains clear; our people always work together to capture the opportunities of tomorrow. That’s why we are ‘Investors for a new now’.

As investors on behalf of our clients, it is our role to find investment solutions. Ensuring the best possible foundation for our clients’ financial future. And in return, we’ll give you the support and platform to develop new skills, make an impact and work alongside some of the industry’s greatest thought leaders. This is your chance to achieve your goals and lead an extraordinary career.

This is your chance to invest in your future.

Team / division overview

The Operational Resilience team within the Chief Operating Office, drives the execution of the DWS Group Operational Resilience Programme. Operational Resilience describes DWS’s ability to detect, prevent, respond to, recover and learn from operational disruptions. On the basis that operational disruption is inevitable, a risk-based and systematic approach to Operational Resilience provides greater assurance to Senior Management that those Business and Infrastructure Functions which deliver the Bank's material business services are adequately prepared for future disruption.

In times of crisis specifically, this means minimising the impact, improving the DWS’s response, and maintaining the availability of our most important Business Services to our clients and markets.

What we’ll offer you

As part of our flexible scheme, here are just some of the benefits that you’ll enjoy

• Best in class leave policy
• Gender neutral parental leaves
• 100% reimbursement under childcare assistance benefit (gender neutral)
• Sponsorship for Industry relevant certifications and education
• Employee Assistance Program for you and your family members
• Comprehensive Hospitalization Insurance for you and your dependents
• Accident and Term life Insurance
• Complementary Health screening for 35 yrs. and above

Your key responsibilities

As an Operational Resilience Analyst you lead the Operational Resilience Operations Team that:

Crisis Management

• Supports Global and Regional Crisis Chief of Staff with Crisis Mgmt information management, training, exercising and lessons learned tracking
• Maintains and update Regional Crisis Management Contact cards, Email Distribution, SendWordNow and MS Teams Lists.
• Supports the preparation required for running regional crisis exercises.

BCM

• Oversees non-compliance with Accountable Managers, copying relevant Regional OpRes Lead
• Analyses continuity risks, including but not limited to concentration risks, single points of failure, recovery capability against DWS Risk Appetite

Operational Resilience

• Supports Important Business Service Managers to coordinate scenario analysis / stress testing for each IBS instance to ensure regulatory requirements are met
• Coordinates and track through to completion the necessary remediation activities where scenario testing (or other analysis) identifies capability gaps (i.e. expected to be unable to recover services within stated Recovery Objectives)
• Supports production and maintenance of severe but plausible scenario library

Reporting and Tooling support

• Develops, maintains and issues resilience related risk reporting to ensure proactive business awareness for compliance and vulnerabilities
• Provides central advisory and support for DWS’s adoption of ServiceNow OpRes/BCM Modules
• Supports production of governance meeting and training reference materials
• Supports production and maintenance of threat analysis reports

Your skills and experience

Operational Resilience is a rapidly evolving risk discipline with the sector and regulatory authorities continually learning. We are therefore seeking candidates with a hunger to learn, enjoy collaboration, problem solving and challenging the status quo. Specifically we are looking for:

• A few years of professional experience in the Financial Services / Asset Management Sector (ideally at DWS/DB), experienced in Operations, Business Continuity, Crisis Management, Audit, Information Security, Compliance, IT Risk, Third Party Risk Management or Operational Risk Management preferred
• Good knowledge of DWS operations and divisional operating models and ability to translate business strategic changes into areas of emerging risks to support mitigation preferred
• Appreciation of the regulatory requirements for Operational Resilience (including BCM and Crisis Management)
• Excellent analytical skills and structured approach; Ability to grasp new topics quickly and create the right framework for further evaluation and implementation
• Personal initiative, results orientation and leadership qualities with regard to the independent implementation of medium-sized initiatives
• Demonstrable problem solving skills
• Worked with broad set of stakeholders within a high-pressure dynamic environment
• Demonstrable ability to understand and engage in business transformation; productively highlight risks and opportunities
• Excellent knowledge of using MS Excel/ PowerPoint/Word to analyze and present complex issues; other project management, automation and visualization tools are beneficial
• Excellent communication skills both within working groups and in presenting results in a clear and concise manner
• Very good knowledge of the English language (spoken and written)

How we’ll support you

• Training and development to help you excel in your career
• Coaching and support from experts in your team
• A culture of continuous learning to aid progression
• A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs

About us and our teams

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