Cyber Resilience SME : Energy Trading

Overview

In this role you will partner with business units in a major energy trading environment to define resilient, viable responses to cyber threats. You’ll translate business needs into minimum viable requirements, guiding playbooks and manual workarounds without driving technical changes yourself. The position sits within a business-led cyber resilience initiative that prioritises continuity, recovery sequencing, and workforce readiness. You will work closely with traders and BUs to align risk appetite with practical resilience solutions, enabling continued trading after adverse events. This is a high-impact, cross-functional role that shapes how the business responds to cyber risk.

Responsibilities

• Provide dedicated cyber resilience support to assigned business area
• Assure that resilience deliverables meet scope, quality, and central programme standards
• Help business determine risk appetite and minimum viable requirements
• Guide solutioning of playbooks, critical actions, and viable workarounds
• Enable delivery through templates, guidance, workshops, and stakeholder engagement
• Surface risks and bottlenecks early as a conduit between LoB, BR Lead, and central team
• Ensure LoB deliverables align with central programme guidance
• Offer practical onboarding and guidance to leadership on critical actions
• Support resilience readiness for critical processes and viable alternatives
• Escalate risks and issues to project management and central team as needed

Key requirements

• Energy trading, oil & gas, financial markets, or commodities experience
• Business-facing, non-technical cyber resilience expertise
• Ability to work with Line of Business to define risk appetite and MV requirements
• Experience in developing or guiding playbooks and recovery actions
• Strong stakeholder engagement and cross-functional collaboration
• Ability to surface risks and bottlenecks and communicate with central programme

• stakeholder engagement
• cross-functional collaboration
• problem solving
• clear communication
• practical cyber and resilience expertise

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