Job Description:
Job Description:
This job is responsible for consulting on corporate business continuity topics with clients. Key responsibilities include recommending and implementing solutions that protect the bank's assets and participating or leading business continuity initiatives and ongoing process activities (i.e., scenario analysis, plan development, testing, event management, and progress reporting/measurement). Job expectations include providing subject matter consulting support in audit and regulatory matters as needed.
The Group Business Recovery Coordinator (GBRC) is an individual contributor within the Global Operations (GO) organization (KD005 – Bus Continuity Consultant job profile). This role is responsible for supporting the end-to-end Business Recovery Planning and Testing processes and driving overall operational resiliency for a portfolio of business functions within Global Operations.
The GBRC will:
• Work closely with function teams and the function owner to complete deliverables and collaborate with other GO GBRCs to ensure deliverable consistency and quality
• Directly update deliverables in the business continuity systems of record, including Continuity Planning Tool (CPT).
• Interact with senior leaders and engage/influence business partners across the defined portfolio
Key responsibilities include the building and maintenance of the following deliverables for the GBRC’s portfolio of business functions:
• Business Impact Analysis (BIA) – functional risk assessment to determine the function’s Recovery Time Objective (RTO).Also includes identification of the function’s application, 3rd party, and other function dependencies
• Business Recovery Plan (BRP) – recovery strategies and tasks for recovery of the function; includes recovery for physical location disruption, dependency disruption, and employee unavailability (e.g., pandemic)
• Business Recovery Function-Location Testing – the GBRC will write test scripts and expected results and oversee test execution by function teams
The GBRC will have opportunities to participate in or run projects from time-to-time based on availability, project topic knowledge, and career interests.
Responsibilities:
- Conducts current-state risk-based assessments to develop business continuity management strategies and monitors the effectiveness following the implementation of the plan
- Evaluates the performance of plans, processes, and programs at assigned organizational level, while assessing progress towards identified objectives
- Implements, monitors, and modifies procedures for the effective response to incidents and the continuance of critical business services, based on testing and exercises of plans or actual events
- Supports testing of business continuity plans to assess readiness, identify deficiencies, and promote enhancements
- Identifies, validates, and escalates gaps in business continuity readiness to senior management and second line partners
Required Skills:
• Ability to work independently with a bias for action
• Capability to learn quickly and demonstrate critical thinking
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written
• Comfortable guiding the business through key business continuity deliverables and confidence to influence the development of robust, executable business recovery strategies
• Ability to build strong relationships with business function owners and become trusted advisor on resiliency and business continuity topics
• Proficient with Microsoft Office suite of applications including Word, Excel, PowerPoint
Desired Skills:
• Working knowledge of Global Operations (GO) environment and processes
• Experience with resiliency and business continuity key concepts, including internal standards and tools (Continuity Planning Tool – CPT)
Skills:
- Active Listening
- Adaptability
- Attention to Detail
- Critical Thinking
- Data Collection and Entry
- Collaboration
- Continuous Improvement
- Issue Management
- Record Keeping
- Written Communications
- Business Continuity Management
- Data Management
- Data and Trend Analysis
- Policies, Procedures, and Guidelines Management
- Process Simplification
Shift:
1st shift (United States of America)
Hours Per Week:
40
