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Business Continuity Management Advisor
- Toronto, ON, Canada
Pay Rate: $60.38/hr - $71.29/hr · Full-time
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- Pay Rate: $60.38/hr - $71.29/hr
- Job type
- Full-time
- Closing date
- Experience
- Business Continuity Manager/operational -4-6 years of experience
- Posting language
- English
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- Location: Toronto, ON - Hybrid (4 days a week)
- Pay Rate: $60.38/hr - $71.29/hr
- Contract Length: 12 Months with possibility for extension
Responsibilities
- Provides subject matter expertise and work directly with Client CM, LLC Business Units regarding all requirements in the Enterprise Business Continuity Risk Management (EBCRM) Standard. Specifically, new or existing business impact analysis (BIA), business continuity planning, and exercises.
- Complete Business Impact Analysis (BIA) to identify all requirements to understand the impact of process and key dependency failures.
- Develop Business Continuity Plan (BCP) and document recovery strategies and workarounds.
- Conducts BCM exercises to validate planning assumptions and test controls (including work area recovery, contact exercises and simulations as required)
- Perform internal business continuity risk controls through timely scheduling, completion and quality of BCRM requirements outlined in the EBCRM Standard.
- Retain responsibility to ensure that all approvals are obtained. Where applicable, escalate roadblocks in a timely fashion.
- Identify Client CM, LLC Business Unit recovery time and point objective gaps, challenge business requirements where appropriate and assist in developing workarounds.
- Collaborate with the Business Unit BCM Coordinator, BCM Central Team and IT Risk to identify, track, and approve remediation decision on Client Business Unit RTO and RPO gaps.
- Work with Client CM, LLC Third-Party Risk Team to review exit strategies and document manual workarounds and / or alternate methods of processing for loss of critical suppliers.
- Manage and support work area recovery sites with BCM Central Team and where appropriate, with BCM Coordinators in Client CM, LLC Business Units.
- Support Client CM, LLC Business Units in preparing for and responding to incidents or crisis and acts as Secretary to the Business Line(s) and Regional Incident Management Teams.
- Conduct Post Incident Reviews, if IMT if activated, as appropriate.
- Remediate known gaps, issues, risk acceptances, and action plans to conclusion and escalate systemic or material gaps through issue management to Senior Manager, Business Continuity Risk.
- Contribute to the monitoring and risk reporting processes for Client CM, LLC Business Units, where applicable.
- Support the delivery of training to Client CM, LLC Business Units, promoting understanding of key components and core BCRM artifacts and activities (e.g., BIA, Threat Risk Assessment, BCP Exercising), and their respective roles and responsibilities (e.g., activating the BCP, strategies addressing loss of key employees, interdependencies, disruption impacts).
- Lead, conduct and participate in training through exercise types that validate plans and assumptions by exercising the interactions of people, processes, and technology risks and vulnerabilities in a consequence-free environment.
- Retain all business continuity related documents including BIA, Threat Risk Assessment, BCP and exercise evidence and make available upon request.
- Support first line projects, initiatives and engagements including remediation of gaps identified through Operational Resiliency Scenario Testing.
- Remain apprised of environmental and potential business impacting BCM related risks.
- Adhere to FFIEC, FINRA, and OSFI E-21: Operational Risk and Resilience Guideline requirements.
- Build relationships and encourage collaboration across the greater ORM community in both segments, and with the business risk management teams.
- Support a strong culture of risk and integrity through effective challenge and deep partnerships to promote transparency of risks and matters requiring escalation.
- Willingness to learn and foster an environment of continuous growth.
- Consistently demonstrate behaviors that foster a sound and sustainable risk culture and environment across the organization including strong awareness of BCM practices.
- Experience in implementing business continuity management practices in the financial services industry
- Strong understanding of Business Continuity Management
- Understanding of the high-level processes to support the Business Unit to manage and mitigate business continuity risk
- Knowledge of regulatory requirements and leading practices regarding Business Continuity Management
- Execution of policies and procedures and proficient in business continuity risk management methodologies
- Understanding of PB&CB services and processes
- Excellent interpersonal skills with a strong customer service focus
- Strong communications skills with Business Units
- Experience in identifying and implementing appropriate controls for effective risk mitigation
- Experience working in a complex, matrix environment and proactively managing a diverse set of stakeholders.
- Ability to adapt and quickly implement regulatory change
- Strong critical thinking skills, with the ability to independently recognize problems, propose solutions and execute on them
- Strong program management skills
- Proficiency in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Visio)
- Strong presentation skills (written and verbal) and ability to demonstrable experience in effective communication/presenting at a Senior Manager’s level
- Experience of working in a dynamic environment with changing priorities
- Business Continuity Manager/operational -4-6 years of experience
- Financial industry/Regulatory
- Capital Markets
- Knowledge of OSFI E-21
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Responsibilities
Advise business units on enterprise business continuity requirements by conducting impact analyses, developing continuity plans, testing recovery strategies, and managing recovery objective gaps. Support incident response, remediation, risk reporting, training, and regulatory compliance while coordinating with business, technology, and third-party risk teams.
Requirements
Requires 4–6 years of business continuity or operational experience in the financial industry, with knowledge of continuity practices, regulatory requirements, risk controls, and business processes. Candidates should have strong program management, communication, critical thinking, stakeholder management, and Microsoft Office skills; capital markets knowledge and familiarity with OSFI E-21 are preferred.
Skills
- Business Continuity Management
- Business Impact Analysis
- Business Continuity Planning
- Business Continuity Exercises
- Operational Resilience
- Risk Management
- Incident Management
- Recovery Time Objectives
- Recovery Point Objectives
- Regulatory Compliance
- Program Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Critical Thinking
- Microsoft Office
- Presentation Skills
- Financial Services
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Categories
- Finance & Accounting
- Management & Leadership
- Security & Safety
- Consulting
Keywords
- Business Continuity Management
- Business Continuity Risk Management
- Business Impact Analysis
- Business Continuity Plan
- Threat Risk Assessment
- Operational Resilience
- Operational Resiliency Scenario Testing
- Recovery Time Objective
- Recovery Point Objective
- Work Area Recovery
- Incident Management
- Post-Incident Review
- Third-Party Risk
- Risk Controls
- Issue Management
- Remediation
- Regulatory Compliance
- FFIEC
- FINRA
- OSFI E-21
- Financial Services
- Capital Markets
- PB&CB
- Program Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Microsoft Office
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft Visio