Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The client is a large financial services company seeking an experienced Resiliency Practitioner for a 14-month contract assignment. The role develops and implements business continuity and disaster recovery programs, evaluates risks and potential losses, performs plan testing, and supports organizational resilience during disruptive events.
Responsibilities
- Develops and maintains business continuity plans and strategies to ensure continuity of critical functions during and following an emergency or disaster
- Researches and evaluates best practices for investment organizations and business activities to control various risks; researches all investment risk management policies and procedures, limits, and guidelines
- Evaluates business continuity plans to identify opportunities for strategic improvement or mitigation of business interruption
- Develops technology-based tools and metrics and performs statistical data analysis to report, monitor, measure, and manage various aspects of investment risk exposures
- Develops and facilitates training and awareness education of business continuity plans to departments across the organization
- Develops and implements processes, tools, and techniques to evaluate and validate investments models. Implements ongoing model validation processes
- Performs periodic testing of business continuity plans to ensure efficient and timely resumption of critical functions and the return to normal operations
- Develops and implements a risk management framework to better manage, measure, monitor, and report aggregate global investments risk exposures
- Tests and revises disaster recovery strategies to ensure effectiveness against real situations
- Recommends methods to enable resolution of safety, operations, or compliance interruptions
- Ensures compliance with applicable federal, state and local laws and regulations
- Coaches, reviews, and delegates work to lower-level business continuity analysts
Skills
- 5+ Years Required
- 3+ years of hands-on BIA and risk assessment execution (not just plan maintenance)
- Experience producing documentation for formal attestation and second line (2LOD) review, with discipline to self-QA before submission
- Working knowledge of an enterprise GRC tool (Archer preferred)
- Ability to document dependencies, recovery strategies, and impact tolerances
- Experience coordinating with LOBs, IT, and other stakeholder groups on plan development, testing, and execution
- Financial services or other regulated-industry background
- Strong documentation/technical writing skills for playbooks and recovery scripts
- Willingness to participate in on-call rotation and support real-time triage/escalation during disruptive incidents
- Financial services or other regulated-industry background. Knowledge of FFIEC and FINRA business continuity requirements
- University (Degree) Preferred
- 7+ Years Preferred
- BCM certification (CBCP, MBCI, or CBCI) – strongly preferred
- Experience working as a business continuity / resiliency consultant preferred
Benefits
- Fully remote
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