Business Continuity Advisor

5 months ago


London, United Kingdom Resource Solutions. Full time

Resource Solutions. London, United KingdomPosted 11 minutes ago Hybrid Permanent Negotiable

**Job Title**:Business Continuity Advisor

**Job Type**:Permanent

**Location**:London

**Opportunity Overview**:If you flourish in fast paced, dynamic environments where you can shape solutions, influence outcomes, AND genuinely want to help others then this is the perfect role for you. Attention to detail as well as excellent interpersonal and stakeholder management skills will be vital in order to help the team build our 'Resilience by Design' offering whilst driving some of our key forward-looking initiatives. This is very much a role about bringing business continuity and operational resilience not only to live, but to the forefront of everything that we are doing.

**Role Objective**:The purpose of the role is to maintain and enhance our Operational Resilience Framework, including Business Continuity, throughout MS ABS as well as our legal entities. You will work with key stakeholders across all business function and across multiple legal entities to understand the most critical aspects that keep us 'resilient', and develop capabilities to prevent, respond to and recover from severe but plausible disruption scenarios.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Develop, embed, and manage Business Continuity as part of our Crisis Management framework, which will support the strategy and drive consistency and standardisation across all MS ABS' functions and MS ABS' Legal Entities.
- Act as a central point of contact for Business Continuity-related queries and core BC activities.
- Support the annual cycle of Business Impact Analyses (BIAs), planning, testing, and subsequent reporting.
- Develop business cases and 'proof of concepts' for new business continuity plans / solutions, Maintenance of business service interdependency mapping (people, process, technology, suppliers, data & premises).
- Working across teams and multiple stakeholders to help us deliver against the requirements of ABS being a robust, professional, and resilient service company to our regulated legal entities.
- Coordinate and align the testing schedule for business continuity in line with our crisis management framework; review lessons learned on the back of testing exercises to identify maturity opportunities and track/remediate these towards resolution.
- Oversight of third-party risk management & due diligence, including involvement in exit planning & testing where required.
- Monitor and report on key resilience and risk indicators, developing inputs for relevant governance bodies/for a (e.g., ExCo packs; monthly reporting)
- Coordinate and drive engagement with key business stakeholders to ensure appropriate consideration is given to business continuity requirements in periods of business change and product development.

**Requirements**:

- Previous experience in managing a Business Continuity framework, preferably within financial services.
- Proven experience in developing, implementing & testing comprehensive resilience strategies and disaster recovery plans.
- Strong analytical skills
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to collaborate effectively with stakeholders at all levels of the organisation.
- Be a solution-driven problem solver.
- A good understanding of the UK regulatory Operational Resilience Framework
- Experience in third-party risk management
- Certification in Business Continuity Management (CBCI, MBCI)

**Don't hesitate and miss out on this opportunity **
- Job ID RQ8685



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