Incident Manager

Location: Edinburgh

Contract Type: Permanent

Working Pattern: Hybrid

Role Description

The Incident Management team at FNZ plays a critical role in overseeing the technical Incident Management process. This process is key to recovering services during Major Incidents (Severity 1 or Severity 2), managing interruptions or unplanned outages to business-critical and client-critical systems, platforms, and processes.

As an Incident Manager, you will:

• Lead cross-functional discussions with technical and non-technical teams to ensure timely service recovery during incidents.

• Communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholders, providing clear and timely updates throughout the incident lifecycle.

• Facilitate Post-Incident Reviews to identify lessons learned and drive continuous improvement by collaborating with FNZ teams to ensure actions are implemented and aligned with FNZ processes.

• Produce and deliver relevant management information (MI) and reports, contributing to informed decision-making.

• Actively participate in IT audits, providing insights and ensuring compliance.

This role offers a unique opportunity to have a direct impact on refining and enhancing the Incident Management process. Your input will contribute to its continuous evolution, ensuring FNZ remains resilient and responsive in managing critical incidents.

This position is ideal for professionals passionate about process improvement, collaborative problem-solving, and driving operational excellence within a fast-paced environment.

Key Role Responsibilities

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

• 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

• 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

• Support with carrying out actions to continuously improve the incident management process

• Produce 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 3 years relevant 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.

• 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

We are accepting applications until January 24th, so don’t wait—submit your application today and take the next step in your career with FNZ.

About FNZ

FNZ is committed to opening up wealth so that everyone, everywhere can invest in their future on their terms. We know the foundation to do that already exists in the wealth management industry, but complexity holds firms back. 

We created wealth’s growth platform to help. We provide a global, end-to-end wealth management platform that integrates modern technology with business and investment operations. All in a regulated financial institution. 

We partner with over 650 financial institutions and 12,000 wealth managers, with US$1.5 trillion in assets under administration (AUA).

Together with our customers, we help over 20 million people from all wealth segments to invest in their future.