Embedded Business Continuity Analyst

at  Control Risks

WE GO BEYOND PROBLEM-SOLVING AND GIVE OUR CLIENTS THE INSIGHT AND INTELLIGENCE THEY NEED TO REALIZE OPPORTUNITIES AND GROW. FROM THE BOARDROOM TO THE REMOTEST LOCATION, WE HAVE DEVELOPED AN UNPARALLELED ABILITY TO BRING ORDER TO CHAOS AND REASSURANCE TO ANXIETY.

We are looking for a dynamic self starter for a major global technology firm. Filling this role is about the right person rather than the location so if you think that you fit the requirements please apply. Our only limitation is a European or UK passport.
The purpose of this role is to support and drive the business continuity risk strategies and framework, for effectively assessing and managing risk exposure. It is helping the client with the ongoing process of planning and preparation to ensure that the business can continue through a significant disruption. The role further involves preparing for such events to limit their impact on the clients’ business objectives. It includes methods to identify the impact of potential losses and processes to maintain viable recovery from significant disruptions.

REQUIREMENTS

Basic qualifications

• Experience implementing and managing business continuity or risk management programs
• Ability to travel across assigned regions and internationally as needed.

Preferred qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in business or related field
• Extensive experience implementing and managing business continuity or risk management programs.
• Disaster Recovery Institute International (DRII), Business Continuity Institute (BCI), or other business continuity professional certification
• Experience with commercial Business Continuity tools
• Experience managing and analyzing data from various sources to align to strategic goals
• Experience in responding to significant disruptive events.
• Ability to dive deep into data, existing processes, people, and technology challenges in order to identify risks and opportunities.
• Strong interpersonal skills, including the written and oral communication skills necessary to build relationships and positively influence decision making.
• Demonstrated ability to meet deadlines while managing multiple complex projects.

• Executing the BC strategy as developed by the Head of Corporate BC and Regional BC managers.
• Working with regional business teams to conduct business impact and risk assessments, identify critical services, define recovery objectives, and map critical dependencies.
• Working with business teams to document BC plan needs in Corporate Continuity tool to drive consistency and attestation.
• Partnering with the Business, and Global Real Estate and Facilities team to coordinate recovery strategies as identified through the Business Continuity planning process.
• Facilitating business continuity exercises and tests, to identify potential gaps in plans, as well as functionality of work transference processes supporting recovery.
• Work with large amounts of data and create meaningful reports
• Support in launching tools and POC for conducting trainings
• Liaison with support teams to implement the program
• Supporting Workplace Resiliency initiatives by working with multiple Amazon stakeholders to include facilities, business continuity, information technology, security and crisis management, for the purpose of seamlessly integrating within the disaster response cycle, as required.
• Representing Resiliency in facility risk assessment, as well as assisting in developing remediation and mitigation plans, as required.
• Identifying areas of opportunity in the region to enhance response to natural disaster and align to the SEA earthquake exercise, as required.