Senior Vice President, Business Continuity/Recovery Manager

BNY Mellon

$160K — $190K *
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Experience leading operational resiliency or technology resilience programs in financial services.
  • Strong understanding of payment systems and operational resilience frameworks.
  • History of engaging with regulators and senior executives effectively.
  • Proven ability to manage complex initiatives across international teams.
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills for executive reporting.

Responsibilities

  • Support the development and execution of a resiliency strategy for payment services.
  • Act as the deputy to the Platform Resiliency Lead and coordinate daily resiliency activities.
  • Lead resiliency programs like dependency management and recovery planning.
  • Coordinate incident response efforts for critical payment services and conduct post-incident analyses.
  • Oversee governance processes to document and track risks, issues, and compliance.
  • Engage with regulatory bodies and internal audits on resiliency testing results.
  • Drive initiatives for critical payment infrastructures like SWIFT and Fedwire.

Benefits

  • Access to flexible global resources and tools for personal well-being.
  • Generous paid leaves, including paid volunteer time.
  • Participation in a 401(k) plan and various insurance plans for employees and dependents.
  • Support for health and financial goals as a valued team member.
Full Job Description
Job Description

You'll make an impact in the following ways:
  • Supports the development and execution of the resiliency strategy for the Payments Enablement Platform, ensuring critical payment services remain resilient, recoverable, and compliant with regulatory expectations.
  • Acts as deputy to the Platform Resiliency Lead and serves as the primary point of coordination for day-to-day resiliency activities across Payments technology, operations, product, risk, and business stakeholders.
  • Leads execution of resiliency programs, including dependency management, recovery planning, resilience testing, scenario exercises, threat-informed testing, and remediation management.
  • Coordinates response efforts during major incidents affecting critical payment services and supports post-incident analysis, corrective action tracking, executive reporting, and regulatory communications.
  • Oversees resiliency governance processes, ensuring risks, issues, audit findings, and regulatory commitments are appropriately documented, tracked, and remediated.
  • Supports engagement with regulators, internal audit, Operational Risk, Compliance, and Enterprise Resiliency functions regarding resiliency capabilities, testing results, and program maturity.
  • Drives resiliency initiatives supporting critical payment infrastructures, financial market utilities, and payment networks, including SWIFT, Fedwire, CHIPS, RTP, FedNow, and related payment ecosystem dependencies.
  • Maintains platform resiliency inventories, critical service mappings, recovery strategies, impact assessments, and supporting documentation necessary to demonstrate operational resilience.
  • Develops executive-level reporting, committee materials, regulatory submissions, and management updates related to platform resiliency performance and readiness.
  • Partners with engineering and architecture teams to ensure resiliency requirements are incorporated into platform design, change management, and technology modernization initiatives.
  • Coordinates global resiliency activities across multiple regions and supports development of a strong resiliency culture through training, awareness, and stakeholder engagement.


Qualifications
  • Experience leading operational resiliency, business continuity, recovery, risk, or technology resilience programs within financial services.
  • Strong understanding of payment systems, critical business services, operational resilience frameworks, technology recovery, and incident management.
  • Experience working with regulators, auditors, and senior executives.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives across global organizations.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills with experience preparing executive and regulatory materials.


Our Benefits and Rewards:

BNY offers highly competitive compensation, benefits, and wellbeing programs rooted in a strong culture of excellence and our pay-for-performance philosophy. We provide access to flexible global resources and tools for your life's journey. Focus on your health, foster your personal resilience, and reach your financial goals as a valued member of our team, along with generous paid leaves, including paid volunteer time, that can support you and your family through moments that matter.

BNY assesses market data to ensure a competitive compensation package for our employees. The expected base salary for this position when employment commences can be found in the Job Info section at the bottom of the posting.

Base salary offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Base salary is only part of the total rewards package, which may include eligibility for an annual discretionary incentive award. Subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable plans then in effect, eligible employees may enroll in a 401(k) plan as well as participate in Company-sponsored medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance plans for the employee and the employee's eligible dependents. Eligible employees also may receive other benefits (including various paid time off benefits, such as vacation and sick time), dependent on the position offered. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.

If hired, the employee will be in an "at will" position and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payments or compensation programs) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.

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