Overview
Schroders Personal Wealth aims to improve the way financial advice is offered, by making it more affordable, accessible and powerful for more people. We want to change lives for the better.
The Senior Business Continuity Manager will lead the delivery of business continuity capability and support operational resilience outcomes within a UK regulated financial services environment.
Type Fixed-term contract until 31/03/2027
Location National
Salary National: £76,266- £83,893 London: £83,369- £92,282
As an experienced Senior Business Continuity Manager, you’ll play a pivotal role in safeguarding the resilience of our critical client services. You’ll lead the design and delivery of practical continuity solutions that ensure operations can withstand prolonged disruptions to outsourced providers. This is a hands-on, delivery-focused contract role suited to an individual who can operate independently like a consultant, influence senior stakeholders, and deliver practical, regulator-ready outcomes.
Embedded within Operations, you’ll have the opportunity to drive initiatives that strengthen our ability to respond to severe but plausible scenarios. Your expertise, judgement, and commitment to operational excellence will be central to building a resilient organisation that our clients can rely on.
Responsibilities
- Lead delivery and enhancement of the Business Continuity Management (BCM) framework across Operations.
- Own business continuity planning, testing, and exercising, ensuring plans are practical and executable.
- Partner closely with the Operational Resilience team to run scenario testing, identify continuity and recovery gaps, and validate arrangements against Operational Resilience outcomes.
- Design and validate workarounds, alternative operating models, and interim service arrangements to maintain client services during extended third‑party disruption.
- Collaborate with Third Party Risk Management, Vendor Management, and Procurement to assess the resilience of material providers, challenge continuity assumptions, and align plans with supplier exit and transition strategies.
- Produce clear, regulator‑ready documentation, MI, and senior‑level reporting.
- Support internal assurance, audit activity, and regulatory engagement.
Qualifications & Skills
- Strong experience in Business Continuity and/or Operational Resilience within Financial Services.
- Background across banking, insurance, wealth and/or asset management.
- Demonstrable experience supporting UK Operational Resilience (FCA/PRA), particularly scenario testing and validation.
- Proven experience operating in outsourced and third‑party‑dependent operating models.
- Solid understanding of TPRM, vendor resilience, and continuity considerations.
- Experience working within, or closely aligned to, Operations.
- Comfortable operating in regulated environments with high evidencing expectations.
- Previous contract, interim, or consulting‑style experience preferred.
- Highly independent, delivery‑driven, and outcomes‑focused.
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills (no direct reports).
- Pragmatic and commercially minded — able to translate disruption scenarios into workable solutions.
- Clear, confident communicator at operational and senior levels.
We understand not everyone will meet 100% of the requirements, however we encourage you to apply if you think your skills are a good fit for this role.
This job vacancy may close earlier than the advertised date if a suitable candidate is found. We encourage interested applicants to submit their applications as soon as possible.
Benefits
- Generous Holiday Entitlement: 30 days of annual leave plus bank holidays, with the option to buy or sell 5 days.
- Health & Wellbeing: Company-paid Private Medical Insurance, Life Insurance, and Health Screening.
- Company Pension Contribution: A matched pension contribution of up to 15% of your base pay.
- Cash Allowance: Flexible allowance to spend on additional benefits personal to you, including: dental cover, paid sabbatical leave, gym membership, menopause support.
- Bonus Opportunity: Dependent on individual/company performance (eligible after 3 months’ service)
- Financial Advice: Access to free financial advice to help secure your financial future.
To find out more, please visit https://www.spw.com/careers-at-spw/rewards-and-benefits
Flexible working
We support flexible working: At SPW, we know how important it is to be able to achieve a balance. We want to support your lifestyle as well as meeting our business needs, so will always aim to be flexible. As well as traditional working patterns, we have colleagues who work informal flexible hours, reduced working hours, and have job-sharing arrangements. Many colleagues work from home, or in a hybrid way.
Restarting your career
We warmly welcome applications from those returning to work after a period of leave, providing appropriate support and training where required.
You belong here
At SPW, we embrace individuality and diversity of identity, experience, and thought. We actively strive for inclusive behaviours and actions, making appropriate adjustments for disabilities, health conditions and neurodiversities. We ensure equal opportunities for all and transparently report on gender pay to promote fairness.
Schroders Personal Wealth operates under the Senior Managers and Certification Regime as a solo-regulated firm and if this role is classed as a Certified Role under that regime you will be subject to enhanced vetting and will have a number of additional conduct and regulatory duties to adhere to, as well as certifying at least annually that you are fit and proper to perform this role.
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