Senior Incident Manager

The Incident Manager will lead discussions and work collaboratively with technical and non-technical teams to successfully recover services and ensure effective communication is issued to internal and external stakeholders during incidents.

The Incident Manager will also lead discussions during Post Incident reviews working closely alongside other teams in FNZ to identify lessons learned and opportunities of improvement and to ensure these are progressed by the right teams adhering to FNZ processes.

The Incident Manager will also be responsible for the production and delivery of MI relevant to the role and be an active participant in IT audits.

The role is a great opportunity to directly contribute to an evolving process providing input to continuously improve the Incident Management process.

Role Responsibilities

• Ensure the Incident Management process is followed by all teams during a Major incidents

• As a senior Incident Manager, use knowledge and experience to assess and analyse a situation and apply judgement to the best course of action to invoke the incident process and to minimise impact and effectively resolve the incident

• Lead technical and non-technical discussions managing the progress of actions throughout the lifecycle of the incident

• Ensure incident details and a clear and realistic action plan are documented and circulated throughout the incident

• Ensure consistent and timely internal and external stakeholder communication to a wide ranging audience including executive communication

• Work collaboratively with internal teams to ensure internal processes such as Risk, Compliance and Audit are adhered to and ensure any regulatory reporting is completed during the incident

• Engage with delivery teams to ensure a smooth integration of change

• Work closely with Service Delivery teams to ensure clear, concise communication during an incident

• Ensure post incident reviews occur for every Major incident and actions are tracked and closed timely with appropriate escalation as needed

• Lead key workstreams or projects as required to continuously improve the incident management process

• Producing and maintaining documents that outline incident management protocols

• Working with other incident managers to ensure a seamless transition of incidents

• Maintain incident management logs for the purposes of reporting

• Production of MI to help manage service and identify risks and improvements

Performance Assessment

KPI reporting – issue management performance against KPIs

Availability – uptime during core and non-core hours

Performance – performance metrics during core and non-core hours

Reliability – test results and performance during real failure events

Experience Required

• Minimum 5 years relevant Incident Management experience

• Ability to learn quickly in a dynamic fast-paced industry

• Enjoy working as part of a high performance team

• Passionate about creating innovative solutions for customers.

• Highly logical.

• Highly self motivated and directed

• Confident, independent, able to take initiative and with a delivery focused working style.

• Superior analytical thinking and keen attention to detail.

• Proven problem-solving abilities.

• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.

• Excellent organisational, administration and time management skills.

• Good team communication skills, confident in dealing with internal and external clients.

• Highly developed written and oral communication skills.

• Interest / familiarity with financial markets and products.