DORA ICT Risk & Operational Resilience Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Interpret DORA ICT risk management and digital operational resilience requirements in a financial-services context

• Translate DORA requirements into practical control expectations and assessment criteria

• Perform requirements-to-controls mapping across policies, processes, systems, and governance arrangements

• Conduct DORA gap assessments covering current-state maturity, compliance gaps, risks, and remediation recommendations

• Assess control design effectiveness and, where applicable, operating effectiveness

• Review and challenge stakeholder evidence for completeness, relevance, traceability, and sufficiency

• Apply quality assurance to evidence records, control evaluations, gap statements, and final reporting

• Lead workshops, interviews, and working sessions with business, technology, risk, compliance, internal audit, and third-party management stakeholders

• Facilitate decision-making, manage actions, and communicate findings to senior stakeholders

• Produce assessment workpapers, control matrices, gap registers, remediation roadmaps, and management presentations

• Deliver a quality-assured DORA gap assessment, final report, and executive summary

Requirements:

• Hands-on experience with DORA, particularly ICT risk management and digital operational resilience requirements

• Strong understanding of ICT risk, IT governance, operational resilience, third-party ICT risk, incident management, and testing requirements within financial institutions

• Proven experience conducting regulatory or control-framework gap assessments and requirements-to-controls mapping

• Practical experience assessing control design effectiveness and operating effectiveness

• Experience in evidence review, assurance reviews, and quality assurance

• Experience working in Nordic or broader European financial services, including banks, insurers, pension funds, asset managers, or regulated financial infrastructure providers

• Ability to translate regulatory requirements into pragmatic control requirements and remediation actions

• Strong workshop leadership and stakeholder facilitation skills with technical and non-technical audiences

• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills

Nice to have:

• Familiarity with EBA Guidelines, NIS2, ISO 27001, COBIT, ITIL, BCM/ISO 22301, or relevant local financial supervisory expectations

• Background in technology risk, IT audit, operational resilience, risk advisory, compliance, or internal controls

• Relevant certification such as CISA, CRISC, CISSP, ISO 27001 Lead Auditor/Implementer, COBIT, or similar

• Nordic language skills

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