Job description
Connect to your Industry
Our clients are typically some of the largest and most influential organisations in their industry sector. They operate in an ever-changing environment characterized by uncertainty, where their reputational value is often determined by how they respond to disruption, risk and opportunity. Whether it be cyber threats, political and regulatory change or disruptive innovation, our clients need to navigate shocks, high impact events and change. Our leading Reputation, Crisis and Resilience (RCR) team supports clients in this intellectually challenging context by helping them better plan for, and build resilience to, strategic risks, issues and incidents, and crises.
The RCR team sits within our wider Risk Advisory practice and is growing rapidly. As the largest team of resilience and crisis professionals in the UK, RCR combines deep industry knowledge with both business advisory experience and significant technical expertise.
Connect to your career at Deloitte
Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, that covers audit, risk advisory, and consulting services across tax, legal, business, technology and corporate finance, we help our clients become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.
What brings us all together at Deloitte? It’s how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.
Connect to your opportunity
You will have the opportunity to work with senior client executives and a wide range of functional teams across a broad range of industries, helping them build resilience to a diverse set of strategic, operational and technology risks. Examples of the some of the engagements you may undertake include:
- Contingency planning for a range of high impact events (such as a catastrophic cyber-attack, critical supply failure or industrial dispute)
- The design and implementation of a large scale resilience transformation programmes to meet regulatory, government and societal expectations across a number of different sectors
- Operational readiness programmes for major events and change initiatives (e.g. sporting events, technology ‘go live’ and strategic product launches)
- Crisis and incident framework design
- Deploying on a live responses to support a client in managing an issue or crisis
- Post-event reviews following a high-profile incident or crisis
Connect to your skills and professional experience
We are looking for applicants with the following professional skills and competencies:
- Strong understanding of resilience as a subject matter, including the direction of travel of government and regulatory thinking in this area and its practical implications. This includes knowledge of requirements for operational resilience set out by the financial services regulators
- Ability to quickly understand complex organisations, their supporting operations and technology, and associated risks
- Excellent project management skills
- Excellent communication and influencing skills
- Experience of building strong relationships with external clients and internal stakeholders
- Ability to work quickly, intelligently and accurately
- Some flexibility to travel to client locations and to work additional office hours dependent on project demands
Applicants should have experience in one or more Resilience related disciplines, including but not necessarily limited to:
- Operational Risk
- Business Continuity Management
- Enterprise Risk Management
- Supply Chain Resilience
- Crisis Management
- Contingency Planning
- IT Service Continuity and Disaster Recovery
- Cloud Resilience
- Scenario risk modelling and planning
Connect to your service line - Risk Advisory
As recent events have reminded us, there are no certainties in business. Risk is everywhere. But so is opportunity. Your expertise will help our clients stay one step ahead of what hasn’t even been imagined yet.
Personal independence
Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints. This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm. The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process.
Connect with your colleagues
“The number of opportunities open to me here is amazing. Being able to create the career path I want, with the support to do that is really motivating.”
- Lisa, Risk Advisory
“At Deloitte you’re surrounded by subject matter experts; industry experts, technology experts, and you can access that knowledge whenever you need to.”
- Christian, Risk Advisory
Connect to your agile working options
Location: Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, London, Manchester
Your Work, Your Way: We call our hybrid working vision Deloitte Works. And it does. We trust you to make the right choices around where, when and how you work. You’ll be able to make decisions about how you work best, to be collaborative, learn from colleagues, share your experiences, build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Having great conversations with your team and your leadership paves the way for great collaborative ways of working.
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Connect to your return to work opportunity
Are you looking to return to the workplace after an extended career break?
For this role we can offer coaching and support designed for returners to refresh your knowledge and skills, and help your transition back into the workplace after a career break of two years or more. If this is relevant for you, just let your recruiter know when you make your application.
Our commitment to you
Making an impact is more than just what we do: it’s why we’re here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.
We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we’re nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we’ll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it’s only when you’re comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.
Your expertise is our capability, so we’ll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it’s from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you’ll learn every day. Through world-class development, you’ll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you’ll learn how to lead.
Connect to your next step
A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you’ll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You’ll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you’ll never stop growing, whatever your level.
Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers
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