Business Resiliency Officer II

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

Business resilience expert professional responsible for regulatory and operational risk management activities of the bank. Works with key stakeholders across the business to ensure sound planning, the application of effective mitigation strategies, and risk monitoring, analysis, and reporting on significant risk and resilience issues. Assist business units in achieving resiliency objectives related to program milestones and policy requirements. Key team member in enterprise-wide projects, supporting proactive risk identification, mitigation and effective incident and crisis management.

Key responsibilities include:

• Support Business Resilience programs through consultation, analysis, strategy recommendations, and corporate resiliency applications.
• Support full life-cycle business continuity management and disaster recovery planning, response and recovery activity.
• Work closely with business units to identify critical business processes, ensuring a state of readiness in the event of a disaster or business disruption.
• Partner with subject matter experts to reduce risk through a collaborative effort to identify appropriate strategies for recovery.
• Monitor the completeness of all program milestones related to resiliency, including training, analyses, planning and testing.
• Support corporate response plans related to emergency management, business continuity, crisis response, safety and disaster recovery planning.
• Lead cross-functional risk management initiatives and projects that impact multiple risk disciplines and/or business units.
• Deliver threat and vulnerability awareness, in conjunction with current environmental or other internal and external threats.
• Drive the adoption of a culture of preparedness with appropriate training and awareness materials.
• Analyze the results of complex risk assessments and dependency mapping, that requires an in-depth evaluation of various factors, to increase resiliency across the organization’s footprint.
• Ensure compliance with all bank regulations, industry standards and regulatory requirements. Keeps up to date on regulation changes.
  
  
  

Job Requirements and Qualifications:

The following are required:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, or other related field or the equivalent in experience required.
• 3 years of risk management, emergency management, business continuity, disaster recovery, and/or safety experience.
• Excellent oral, written and interpersonal communication skills.
• Strong ability to independently manage multiple and complex work efforts.
• Intermediate knowledge of business continuity recovery processes, concepts, strategies and methodologies including risk assessment, business impact analysis, recovery procedures, incident and crisis response and management.
• Intermediate knowledge of resiliency concepts, regulatory considerations and industry ‘best practices’, with the ability to apply this knowledge appropriately to diverse situations.
• Intermediate skills in Word, Excel, PowerPoint necessary. Knowledge of SharePoint, GRC, continuity planning, technology inventory databases, and mass notification systems helpful.
• Intermediate knowledge of financial institutions general control structure, as well as, knowledge of various financial services operations, to assess risk, challenge and make appropriate recommendations.
• Certified Business Continuity Professional Credentials (CBCP) or equivalent certification, preferred.