Albany Beck supports financial services firms to design, mobilise and embed operational resilience frameworks – strengthening governance, scenario testing, third-party oversight and service continuity across complex operating models.
Operational resilience is a regulatory requirement, but it becomes a strategic advantage when delivered properly.
Regulatory scrutiny, systemic risk expectations and digital interdependency are exposing weaknesses across governance, service mapping, scenario testing and third-party oversight. Firms must demonstrate they can prevent, adapt, respond to and recover from disruption without compromising critical services.
• Regulatory frameworks such as DORA and the BoE Operational Resilience Policy require demonstrable impact tolerances and scenario testing
• Board-level accountability for important business services and impact tolerances
• Rising cyber, technology and third-party disruption risk
• Complex outsourcing and cloud dependencies
• Increased supervisory scrutiny of mapping, testing and remediation
• Growing focus on service continuity and customer impact
• Operational resilience is now a structural regulatory obligation
• Fragmented ownership across risk, operations, technology and compliance
• Incomplete mapping of important business services and supporting assets
• Weak linkage between impact tolerances, testing and remediation
• Inconsistent third-party and intra-group dependency oversight
• Scenario testing that remains theoretical rather than operational
• Manual reporting and limited resilience MI transparency
• Competing transformation priorities across cyber, data and change
• Operational resilience programme leads
• Business service mapping specialists
• Scenario testing and impact tolerance SMEs
• Third-party risk and outsourcing governance experts
• Resilience MI and reporting capability
• Change and remediation delivery leadership
Operational resilience intersects every industry driver. Treating it in isolation creates duplication and control gaps.
Embed regulatory-aligned governance, testing and reporting frameworks.
Support product launches and geographic expansion without increasing service fragility.
We support end-to-end execution across core resilience domains:
Programme Director
PM
PMO
BA
Change Manager
QA/Tester
Process Improvement SME
Technical Business Analyst
Infrastructure SME
Cloud Risk Specialist
Cyber SME
Resilience Architect
Data Analyst
MI & Reporting Specialist
Data Architect
Control Reporting SME
Automation SME
Platform Engineer
Integration Engineer
DevOps Engineer
Infrastructure Engineer
Systems Engineer
Operational Resilience SME
Impact Tolerance SME
Scenario Testing Lead
Third-Party Risk SME
Service Continuity Lead
Operations SME
Client Services SME
Operational Resilience Readiness Assessment
Programme Mobilisation & Stabilisation
Impact Tolerance Design & Validation
Scenario Testing Framework & Execution
Third-Party & Outsourcing Risk Framework Design
Important Business Service Identification & Mapping
Remediation & Control Enhancement Delivery
Resilience Governance & MI Uplift
Capacity Retainer
Delivery Academy
Operations Academy
BA Academy
Data Analyst Academy
Change Management Academy
Case Study
Mobilised an operational resilience framework for a global bank, strengthening business service mapping, scenario testing and governance to embed resilience across live operating environments.
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Enhanced third party resilience oversight for an Irish-domiciled Wealth & Asset Management firm, improving dependency mapping, supplier performance monitoring and regulatory reporting under CBI and DORA scrutiny.
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Strengthened operational resilience MI and reporting for a financial market infrastructure, embedding structured governance and board-ready reporting across critical services.
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Michael Robertson
Managing Partner: Head of Consulting
Ella Hysom
Client Associate Partner
Hannah Lunn
Client Associate Partner
For more information on our projects in the space, download our case studies.
