Enterprise Business Continuity Director (Financial Services)

Robert Walters; London; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 130,000

Job description

My client, an FS organisation based in London, is looking for an Enterprise Continuity Director to join their team. For this role, you will need to be located in their Canary Wharf offices up to 2 days per week.

About the Enterprise Continuity Director role:

My client has a requirement for a senior role to support the development of Enterprise-wide Continuity within the context of the evolving Enterprise Resilience regulatory requirements and industry best practices. This role will report to the ED Enterprise Continuity, helping to make my client resilience industry leading.

In a nutshell, you will be:

• Supporting the design and delivery of an industry-leading Enterprise Continuity program within the overall Enterprise Resilience function.
• Developing internal and external stakeholder support for critical initiatives.
• The successful candidate will be experienced engaging with Regulators and Senior Management.
• The candidate will be required to lead change across the organization as my client matures the resilience function. This will require creativity, ideation, industry credibility, experience, strong verbal and written influencing skills along with empathy and the ability to understand others and their positions.

The candidate will:

• Support the delivery of the Enterprise Continuity programme for my client.
• Identify my client's critical internal business services and associated Impact Tolerances.
• Lead the mapping and scenario testing of the critical internal business services in order to identify vulnerabilities.
• Deliver a programme of internal resilience improvement initiatives.
• Design and deliver the resilience tooling and dashboarding for my client.
• Support the transformation of the current BCM capabilities to deliver industry-leading continuity solutions.
• Plan and deliver staff training and testing of various resilience capabilities.
• Prepare inputs for relevant governance bodies.
• Support the management of the Enterprise Continuity team's risk and controls environment.
• Support the design and execution of the enterprise-wide Strategic BIA across all operational assets.
• Participate in the strategic and existential threat continuity planning at an enterprise level.
• Enhance the capability and enterprise utility of the BIA, mapping data and tooling.
• Lead engagements internally and externally including at Executive Management.

What we're looking for:

The candidate shall have the following experience:

• Experience delivering industry-leading operational continuity and/or resilience within the context of cutting-edge GSIB and FMI practices and customer expectations.
• Experience in business process mapping and using these capabilities to produce MI.
• Experience across technology, third-party, facilities, and people risk analysis and mitigation.
• Experience in the design and delivery of resilience scenario testing and associated vulnerability identification and remediation.
• Experience engaging at a GSIB/FMI level with lead and global regulators.
• Experience influencing change at a C-Suite level.
• Experience analyzing and delivering enterprise change.
• Experience managing enterprise-level strategic continuity planning including Cyber, Resolution, Pandemic, Change.
• A history of Operational Risk analysis, specifically in the Resilience domain.
• Good understanding of FX products and services with knowledge of the required infrastructure and dependencies.
• Experience in the delivery of projects providing solutions across the breadth of a company's operations; business process, technology solutions, cyber remediation, third-party risk, etc.

Professional qualifications / certifications:

Recognized qualifications in the following areas will be beneficial:

• Financial regulation.
• Resilience / BCM.
• Operational / Enterprise Risk Management.
• Project Management (e.g., Prince / PMI / APM).
• Cyber Management (e.g., CISM).

If the above role is of interest, please apply to this position or call me on 0207 509 8040 to find out more.

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About the job

Contract Type: FULL_TIME

Specialism: Information Technology

Focus: Information Security

Industry: Banking

Salary: £110,000 - £130,000 per annum + plus £43K bonus

Workplace Type: Hybrid

Experience Level: Director

Location: London

Job Reference: 3J43NK-7D830DC4

Date posted: 5 March 2025

Consultant: Darius Goodarzi