Who we are looking for
We are seeking a Vice President, SSBI Resilience Governance & Controls to play a central leadership role in the management and continued development of SSBI’s resilience programs, frameworks and associated control environments.
The role will serve as a key governance, controls and execution lead for the SSBI Resilience function, establishing the operating cadence, management information, portfolio discipline and cross-functional coordination necessary to translate resilience strategy, regulatory requirements and management priorities into effective day-to-day governance, controls, programmes and measurable outcomes.
The successful candidate will lead the team of Business Continuity Directors supporting SSBI and play an active role in the management of material operational incidents and disruptions.
Working across Business, Technology, Enterprise Resilience, Risk, Compliance, Third-Party Risk Management, Outsourcing, Sustainability and Internal Audit, the role will strengthen the first-line management of resilience risk and ensure that global resilience programmes and frameworks are effectively implemented within the SSBI legal-entity context.
The successful candidate will combine strong experience in operational resilience, business continuity, first-line risk and controls, governance, incident management, programme delivery and audit and regulatory remediation with the ability to connect complex and sometimes fragmented activities across various risk, governance and business management disciplines.
The role requires someone who can operate with a high degree of autonomy, bring structure to complex and ambiguous problems, constructively challenge established practices and translate strategic priorities into coordinated execution. The individual must be equally comfortable leading an experienced team, driving cross-functional initiatives, managing competing priorities, supporting senior-management decision making and operating effectively during significant incidents and periods of disruption.
What you will be responsible for:
SSBI Resilience Governance, Operating Model & Control Environment:
•Manage and continuously enhance the governance framework supporting SSBI Operational Resilience, including governance routines, decision processes, escalation mechanisms, management information and action tracking.
•Establish an effective operating cadence for the SSBI Resilience function, connecting priorities, governance forums, management information, key deliverables, risks, dependencies and actions.
•Drive the continued development and implementation of an effective first-line approach to the management of resilience risks, ensuring clear ownership, accountability and integration with SSBI’s broader risk and control environment.
•Ensure resilience governance is effectively connected with business risk, technology risk, third-party risk and the wider SSBI control environment.
•Coordinate material resilience matters through appropriate management and governance forums, ensuring decisions, dependencies, actions and accountabilities are clearly captured and progressed.
•Maintain an integrated view of SSBI resilience priorities and commitments, proactively identifying delivery risks, dependencies, resource constraints and matters requiring management attention.
•Drive consistency across resilience policies, standards, methodologies, procedures and controls.
•Support the continued evolution of the SSBI Resilience operating model and effective interaction between SSBI and global functions.
Business Continuity Leadership
•Lead the team of Business Continuity Directors supporting SSBI, setting clear objectives, priorities, performance expectations and quality standards.
•Provide -to-day direction to the SSBI Business Continuity team, ensuring capacity and resources are focused on SSBI’s most significant resilience risks, regulatory requirements and business priorities.
•Oversee the effective execution and continued enhancement of business continuity planning, preparedness, exercising and recovery activities.
•Establish consistent methodologies, working practices and documentation standards across the Business Continuity team, aligned with the global Operational Resilience programme and SSBI requirements.
•Develop team capability through coaching, knowledge sharing and exposure to complex resilience, recovery and incident-management activities.
•Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, sound risk judgment, constructive challenge, disciplined execution and continuous improvement.
Operational Resilience Programme Delivery
•Support the delivery and continuous enhancement of the all aspects of enterprise resilience programs within SSBI.
•Collaborate with business management to embed Operational Resilience requirements and risk-management processes and enable continuous assessment of risk and the effectiveness of the operating and control environment.
•Coordinate and manage key programmes, initiatives and commitments supporting SSBI’s resilience priorities, maintaining an integrated view of critical-path initiatives, milestones, dependencies, risks and required decisions.
•Translate priorities into clear delivery plans, accountabilities and measurable outcomes.
•Apply strong programme and project management disciplines across multiple concurrent and interdependent workstreams.
•Identify issues, dependencies and constraints that could prevent successful delivery, developing options for resolution and escalating matters requiring management attention.
•Lead complex and time-sensitive resilience initiatives with a high degree of autonomy and disciplined execution.
Risk & Controls
•Lead and drive enhancements to the resilience risks and associated control environment, including policies and procedures, risk assessments, governance, management reporting and internal controls.
•Establish consistent expectations for resilience control design, documentation, ownership, evidence and execution.
•Develop appropriate quality-control and assurance routines to assess whether resilience processes and controls are operating as intended.
•Enable consistent first-line ownership of resilience risk by providing frameworks, guidance, challenge and subject-matter expertise.
•Identify emerging, systemic and recurring control weaknesses and drive sustainable remediation.
•Support alignment of resilience-related risk and control assessments with relevant RCSA, LERA, and broader first-line risk-management processes.
Regulatory Resilience
•Support the sustainable implementation and ongoing operation of resilience-related regulations within SSBI.
•Translate regulatory requirements, supervisory observations and internal findings into structured governance, control and remediation activities.
•Coordinate resilience-related regulatory and audit deliverables, ensuring consistent narratives, traceable evidence and appropriate management review.
•Drive the transition of regulatory remediation into sustainable BAU governance and controls, avoiding reliance on temporary or point-in-time solutions.
•Support SSBI management in maintaining effective regulatory readiness across the resilience environment.
Issues, Remediation & Control Environment
•Maintain an integrated view of material resilience-related audit findings, regulatory observations, self-identified issues, risk acceptances and remediation activities.
•Identify systemic themes and interdisciplinary dependencies across risk, governance and business management disciplines.
•Drive disciplined tracking, escalation and closure of resilience-related actions and commitments.
•Provide management with a clear view of control health, vulnerabilities, residual risks, remediation progress and matters requiring decisions.
Management Information, Executive Governance & Decision Support
•Develop an integrated, decision-oriented view of the health and performance of the SSBI resilience environment, covering risk, controls, testing, incidents, vulnerabilities, remediation and programme delivery.
•Continuously improve resilience metrics, scorecards, dashboards, reporting and executive narratives.
•Support preparation of materials for senior-management committees, governance forums, Audit and regulatory interactions.
•Support agenda setting for relevant resilience governance forums and maintain disciplined tracking of decisions and actions.
•Identify deteriorating trends, emerging risks and delivery concerns early and provide clear recommendations and options.
•Translate complex business, technology and regulatory matters into concise executive-level analysis and actionable recommendations.
Transformation & Continuous Improvement
•Bring a fresh and independent perspective to established business-as-usual processes, constructively challenging whether current approaches remain effective, efficient and fit for purpose.
•Drive improvements in control design, standardization, automation, data quality and operational effectiveness.
•Identify opportunities to simplify processes, eliminate duplication and fragmentation and strengthen end-to-end accountability.
•Support modernization of resilience management information, data flows and reporting, reducing manual effort and improving timeliness, transparency and data quality.
•Promote the appropriate use of data, automation and AI to improve resilience governance, monitoring, reporting and control effectiveness.
•Act as a change agent, connecting issues that cross organizational or functional boundaries and driving them toward sustainable resolution.
What we value
•Significant experience in Audit, Operational Resilience, Business Continuity, operational risk, business controls, technology resilience, DORA or related disciplines, preferably within a regulated financial institution.
•Strong knowledge of risk and control frameworks, including control design, assessment, issue management and remediation.
•Strong practical understanding of resilience planning, business continuity, testing and exercising, technology recovery and disaster recovery.
•Strong understanding of governance frameworks and the ability to structure complex, multidisciplinary programmes.
•Strong portfolio, programme and project-management capability, including prioritisation, dependency management, risk identification, escalation and delivery tracking.
•Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to distinguish symptoms from underlying control, process or methodology weaknesses.
•Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to synthesize complex matters into concise recommendations for senior audiences.
•Experience working with senior management, Risk, Compliance, Internal Audit and regulatory stakeholders.
•Ability to create effective management information that clearly communicates what matters, why it matters and what decision or action is required.
•Proven ability to influence effectively across a global, matrixed organization without relying solely on formal authority.
•Strong judgment and the ability to operate autonomously, anticipate issues and balance strategic priorities with hands-on execution.
•Ability to remain calm and effective in time-sensitive situations involving incomplete information, multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.
•A genuine willingness to challenge the status quo, including established processes, assumptions and methodologies, while maintaining effective relationships with their owners.
•High standards of integrity, accountability, discretion and professional judgment.
Minimum Salary:
zł282,000 Annual
The minimum salary quoted above applies to the role in the primary location specified. If the candidate ultimately works outside of this primary location, the applicable minimum salary may differ.
Salary will be determined based on fac