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The Business Continuity Lead is responsible for overseeing, coordinating, and executing the organization's business continuity strategy. This role involves developing and implementing strategies to prepare for, respond to, and recover from unforeseen events that threaten the organization's lines of business, operations, reputation, regulatory standing or stakeholders.
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Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Own and conduct the Enterprise Business Impact Analyses (BIA) and assist business leaders in determining business processes and identifying criticality, recovery time objectives (RTO), recovery point objectives (RPO), maximum tolerable downtimes (MTD) and map critical dependencies.
- Conduct business continuity risk assessment for the enterprise, analyzing potential business impact of unpredictable business interruptions such as natural disasters, security breach, legal claims, and market disruptions.
- Develop and maintain business continuity plans; reviews, revises, and expands existing protocols (call tree, recovery team, contact information, alternate site requirements, roles and responsibilities, scenario procedures, etc.)
- Coordinates with 3rd party vendor relationship managers to establish, document, and test 3rd party contingency plans, resolution plans and coordinates testing and performance management.
- Establish BC testing methodologies; schedule & coordinate the exercises with recovery support and technical services groups. Testing to include Alternate Site Testing, Table-Tops, Call Tree Testing, 3rd Party Testing.
- Facilitate BC exercises for business units, applications, systems, and platforms; coordinate the post-exercise evaluation & follow-up process, including status reporting, issue tracking and improvement recommendations.
- Contributes to the development of the Bank's enterprise incident and crisis management plans.
- Regularly interacting with various technology support group management & staff for the purpose of planning, directing, controlling and maintaining Valley's recovery planning documentation and alternate site exercise & validation program.
- Identify, review & verify all resources and critical documents; ensure that information is current and compiled in business continuity planning documentation. Assemble inventory of alternate site requirements (files, computer systems, applications, etc.), components essential for alternate site processing and operations.
- Provide 7X24, on-call support for any emergency which may require activation of all or part of the Business Recovery or Disaster Recovery plans.
- Participate in internal and external audits related to the BC/DR Program, Enterprise Resiliency Program or Enterprise Resiliency related capabilities.
Required Skills:
- Thorough knowledge & understanding of FFIEC's Business Continuity Management framework.
- Strong background in Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery and Operational Resiliency knowledge.
- Strong written & verbal communications skills and the ability to interface with all levels of management.
- Strong background and understanding of US Financial Institutions key functions, processes and resources.
- Proficient in MSOffice Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, and Project Management applications).
- Ability to build positive relationships across multiple stakeholders, senior leadership team, and department heads, etc.
- Executive-level written and verbal communication skills, interpersonal and collaborative skills, and the ability to communicate BCP/DR related concepts to technical and nontechnical audiences.
- Poise and ability to act calmly and competently in high-pressure, high-stress situations.
- Exhibit excellent analytical skills, the ability to manage multiple projects under strict timelines, as well as the ability to work well in a demanding, dynamic environment and meet overall objectives.
Required Experience:
- Bachelor's degree in a related field, Financial Industry or Banking background.
- Minimum of 5 years of related experience with at least 4 years of Business Continuity and/or Disaster Recovery Management (or comparable) experience.
- Associate Business Continuity Planner (ABCP) or similar industry certification.
Preferred Experience:
- Certified Business Continuity Planner (CBCP) or similar industry certification.
Exact compensation may vary based on skills, experience, and location.
$96,000.00
$167,700.00
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Valley National Bank
$96,000.00-$167,700.00
Mar 07, 2025