About the role

  • Executive Director responsible for operational resilience and business continuity strategy at SMBC Group. Performing risk assessments and training staff for disaster and continuity events.

Responsibilities

  • Perform regular risk assessments of business practices to identify severity and likelihood of loss in case of disaster.
  • Review business continuity plan with business leads and refresh for current requirements.
  • Maintain department call tree and organize regular tests to ensure viable communication channels.
  • Deliver regular BCM training for staff.
  • Act as operational lead in the event of an actual disaster or continuity event.
  • Define business continuity strategy for business unit or region, including frequency and structure of risk assessments, disaster recovery (DR) site planning and call tree tests.
  • Assess new business processes to catalog risks and incorporate mitigating actions into broader business continuity plan.
  • Design and oversee execution of communication plan and BCM training curriculum for staff.
  • Act as lead crisis manager in the event of an actual disaster or continuity event.
  • Maintain ongoing dialogue with business leadership to refine and agree business continuity agenda.
  • Engage process owners to identify, prioritize and mitigate continuity risk for new and existing workflows.
  • Liaise with senior counterparts in adjacent business units to inform strategic objectives and targeted enhancements.
  • Challenge support partners in corporate security, technology and corporate real estate (CRES) to improve efficiencies and/or reduce costs.

Requirements

  • 15 years of experience
  • Experience benchmarking existing BCM strategy against other business units, regions and/or firms to identify and leverage best practices.
  • Ability to demonstrate understanding of business processes to more comprehensively assess likelihood and impact of disruption.
  • Oversee post-mortem of actual disasters or continuity events to extract lessons learned and drive strategic improvements.

Benefits

  • Competitive portfolio of benefits

Job title

Executive Director, Operational Resilience

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

$188,000 - $235,000 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Location requirements

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