Executive Director, Operational Resilience
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation – SMBC Group
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: White Plains • New York • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $188,000 - $235,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
About the role
- 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
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
risk assessmentbusiness continuity management (BCM)disaster recovery (DR) planningcommunication plan designtraining curriculum developmentprocess risk assessmentcrisis managementbenchmarkingstrategic improvementmitigating actions
Soft skills
leadershipcommunicationorganizational skillscollaborationproblem-solvingstrategic thinkingengagementdialogue facilitationprioritizationadaptability