Resilience Analyst

Base Location:Perth, Aberdeen or Inverness

Salary: £33,500 - £50,300 + performance-related bonus + a range of other benefits to support your family, finances and wellbeing.

Working Pattern: Permanent | Full Time | Flexible First options available

The role

SSEN Transmission has a fantastic opportunity for a Resilience Analyst to join our Risk & Assurance team. The Risk & Assurance team proactively identify and assess enterprise risk and controls to deliver strategic priorities and ensure compliance with legal and regulatory obligations through coordinated assurance activities.

The role aims to enhance organisational resilience by supporting a strong Business Continuity Management System. The Resilience Analyst will collaborate with stakeholders at all levels, contributing to Business Continuity and Resilience initiatives. You will analyse data to identify and address gaps, risks, and threats, while supporting incident management to ensure reliable service delivery.

You will

- Support and lead the development of practices for a robust Business Continuity Management System (BCMS), including Business Impact Analysis, Business Continuity Plans, Playbooks, and exercises/testing of recovery strategies.

- Analyse data from various sources to identify trends, provide insights, and support decision-making on risk, assurance, and resilience, including tracking corrective actions from exercises and incidents to completion.

- Review systems and processes for organisational resilience, ensuring compliance and identifying improvement opportunities across stakeholders. This includes developing integrated assurance within SSEN Transmission and monitoring the effectiveness of our controls library.

- Develop and deliver comprehensive training programs and awareness campaigns to educate employees and stakeholders on business continuity practices and procedures, ensuring a well-informed and prepared workforce.

- Build professional relationships with stakeholders to foster collaboration, share data and reports across the Risk & Assurance team, and support compliance with internal standards and industry best practices, ensuring alignment of resilience strategies.

You have

- Experience in a similar business continuity or organisational resilience role, ideally being accredited to CBCI level or above.

- A keen understanding of management systems and processes, and an ability to ensure compliance and / or influence change where appropriate.

- An innate attention to detail, with strong capability in data analysis and excel skills and previous experience developing and reporting KPIs and/or external reporting would be beneficial. Power Bi and / or SQL experience is essential.

- A positive approach to tackling problems, proactively finding ways to suitable solutions and successful outcomes combined with your personal motivation and resilience, inspiring other to drive progress, learning from setbacks.

- An ability to take ownership for your decisions and hold yourself accountable, working across multiple workstreams with the need for minimal supervision mixed with strong communication and influencing skills to build collaborative relationships.

About SSE

SSE has a bold ambition – to be a leading energy company in a net zero world. We're transforming the grid to provide greener electricity for millions of people and investing over £20 billion in homegrown energy, with £20 billion more in the pipeline.

SSEN Transmissionown and operate the electricity transmission network across the north of Scotland. We transport energy from where it is generated to where it is needed, ensuring a safe and reliable electricity supply for the communities we serve. But that's not all – we're upgrading the grid to deliver cleaner, homegrown energy for the future and building a network for net zero to create secure power for generations to come.

Flexible benefits to fit your life

Enjoy discounts on private healthcare and gym memberships. Wellbeing benefits like a free online GP and 24/7 counselling service. Interest-free loans on tech and transport season tickets, or a new bike with our Cycle to Work scheme. As well as generous family entitlements such as maternity and adoption pay, and paternity leave.

Work with an equal opportunity employer

SSE will make any reasonable adjustments you need to ensure that your application and experience with us is positive. please contact Stephanie at stephanie.murphy@sse.com or 01738 342963 to discuss how we can support you.

We're dedicated to fostering an open and inclusive workplace where people from all backgrounds can thrive. We create equal opportunities for everyone to succeed and especially welcome applications from those who may not be well represented in our workforce or industry.

Ready to apply?

Start your online application using the Apply Now box on this page. We only accept applications made online. We'll be in touch after the closing date to let you know if we'll be taking your application further. If you're offered a role with SSE, you'll need to complete a criminality check and a credit check before you start work.

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