Job Description

JOB DESCRIPTION Business: APAC Wholesale banking Role: Business Continuity Manager/ Operational Resilience (VP) Location: Singapore
Key Responsibilities

• Drive the assessment, development and co-ordination of business continuity plans associated with the various business to ensure they appropriately documented and owned.
• Lead and coordinate regular Business impact analysis (BIA) and Business Recovery Plan (BRP) review with key stakeholders to develop effective BCP recovery and response strategy.
• Support all BCM-lead initiatives such as risk assessments, industry-wide joint exercises
• Coordinate and conduct business recovery exercises to validate the recovery strategies of business units on a regular basis.
• Develop and conduct trainings on all aspects of BCM to staff with BCM responsibilities and general staff to raise BCM awareness.
• Engage with senior management and participate in governance committees to effectively drive the Business Resilience program.
• Conduct 3rd party vendor business resilience reviews and continuity due diligence assessments.
• Actively drive and support local, regional, and global managed projects including implementation of regulatory guidelines and notices as they relate to BCM and operational resiliency.
• Liaise with business division BCM coordinators and CAOs, IT, Corporate Services, HR, Corporate Communications, Corporate Security, ORM, country BCM coordinators.
• Participate and assist business units\xe2\x80\x99 incident management response.
• Lead the Firm\xe2\x80\x99s response to a disruptive event, as they relate to the countries within the remit, with the support of the regional and global teams.
• Interact with country management to provide advice, coordination, and support during a disruptive event, including escalation, communication and following up on lessons learned
• Work collaboratively with an offshore service location in the delivery of this role
• This role may require some travel within Asia Pacific geographies.

• Ability to manage and interact with staff at all levels in the Firm
• Ability to coordinate and lead teams outside of the department on testing and tabletop scenario exercises
• Excellent verbal, written, presentation, interpersonal and basic project management skills
• Strong influencing skills, including ability to articulate complex issues and incorporate feedback
• Ability to actively lead by example
• Self-motivated, proactive, collaborative and calm under pressure
• Willingness to learn, develop, and take over new roles and responsibilities when required
• Analytic thinking, and procedural working approach
• Willingness to occasionally work on weekends and out of business hours when required

• Ideally 5-7 years\xe2\x80\x99 experience in Business Continuity or relevant resilience risk field in the financial sector
• English fluency (verbal & written) is required.
• Good understanding of banking process preferably wholesale banking
• PC skills: Microsoft applications (Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word)
• Risk Management, Regulatory or Technical background with experience in Disaster Response/Recovery background is a plus
• Certification in Business Continuity or Disaster Recovery is a plus