Business Continuity - Senior Associate - City of London

The Role

Responsibilities

• To support the activities of the Risk & Compliance team and champion the embedding of a compliance awareness culture throughout the business.
• Maintain all administration of the BCM lifecycle
• Identify improvements opportunities to the BCM lifecycle
• Manage the development and improvement of business continuity plans in line with ISO 22301.
• Identification of risks to business continuity, mitigation actions and implementation follow-up.
• Manage the annual business continuity test plan
• Develop and maintain training and awareness program
• To maintain continued operations, asset protection, and loss mitigation in the event of a disruption, coordinating activities of resources with the company’s business units
• Work with business unit management to enhance contingency and mitigation plans. Key objectives are that business units can continue functioning with minimal disruption.
• Perform periodic reviews and tests of established Business Continuity Plans and procedures, reporting findings to management and making recommendations for improvements as needed.
• Ensure tests of the work area recovery sites are done annually
• Define and design new resilience framework
• Attend and actively participate in any relevant committees.
• Act as mentor to more junior peer colleagues providing motivation and empowerment where appropriate.
• Demonstrate and encourage continuous improvement and innovative thinking; identify and correct shortfalls in performance levels.
• Identify and implement efficiencies to ensure team priorities continue to be met.
• Demonstrate correct application of business processes to internal/external stakeholders.
• Present self professionally and knowledgeably with stakeholders – trusted to represent R&C across the business in forums / projects.
• Challenge the views of others (including more senior members) providing justification / rationale as appropriate.
• Identify and escalate issues implementing required solutions and assisting more junior peer colleagues in developing solutions.
• Anticipate upcoming change and flexibly prepare shifting priorities according to demand.

Qualifications

Skills & Experience

• Detailed understanding of Business Continuity best practice guidelines
• Understanding incident / crisis management including a knowledge of emergency response and the ability to develop, implement and manage BC Plans.
• Project management skills and an understanding of Continuous Improvement
• An understanding of organisational culture and the ability to collaborate with staff in related management disciplines.
• Facilitation skills to plan and direct meetings, training workshops and exercises
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills relating to BIA and risk assessment
• Prior relevant industry experience in for example Compliance, Risk, Audit is essential.
• Understands how the role contributes to the wider business agenda and benefit / impact on the success of the business.
• Builds strong internal networks across different levels of the organisation and develops networks beyond own business area including externally.
• Excellent administration, planning and organisation skills.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Displays enthusiasm, credibility and determination.
• Ability to grasp new ideas and concepts quickly and use them effectively.
• Passion for continuous improvement.
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.