The Business Continuity Manager reports to Global Director of Security & Risk and assists in providing strategic implantation of the company BCP as well as performing operational tasks associated with resilience

Key Responsibilities  

• Performs annual business impact analysis to identify points of vulnerability to assess the firm’s resilience to withstand business disruption, documents process dependencies and recommends mitigation strategies
• Establishes testing methodologies; plans and coordinates the testing of recovery support and business continuity procedures in different functional areas
• Manages day-to-day business continuity and disaster recovery tasks including table top exercises and evaluations
• Develops, coordinates, and maintains comprehensive business continuity and disaster recovery plans to ensure the ability to for the offices and/or technology platforms to recover in the event of an unforeseen disruption
• Liaise with IT team and assist in tailoring continuity plans
• Audits Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Plans, documents preparedness status and reports to management
• Supports pandemic planning activities

Crisis Management & Emergency Response 

• Assists office-level and corporate response teams during emergency situations in the implementation of response and alternate operating strategies
• Serves as the administrator for the Emergency Notification
• Coordinates with global offices to ensure staff are properly trained on first-aid and emergency response plans and procedures.
• Other duties as assigned

 Minimum Qualifications 

• Bachelor degree in Business, Information Management, or a related field
• 3+ years of direct work experience in the areas of business continuity or disaster recovery
• Capacity to undertake large, long-term projects, develop alternative methods to complete them, and implement solutions
• Strong analytical skills needed for all primary duties of position, including comprehending and communicating data

Preferred

• ABCP, CBCP or MBCI accreditation
• Technical writing ability an asset
• Skills in overall architecture (storage concepts, compute platforms, and networking)
• Understanding of application architectures including multi-tier applications and application interdependencies