AVP, Business Continuity Officer

Cathay Bank • Los Angeles, CA

1d • $100,000 - $120,000

About The Position

The AVP, Business Continuity Officer is responsible for developing, maintaining, testing, and improving the organization’s business continuity and disaster recovery capabilities. This mid-level role focuses on operational execution, stakeholder coordination, and program maturity rather than strategy ownership.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree (required) in Business administration, information systems, risk management or related field. Commensurate experience considered.
• 3 - 5 years’ experience required in Business Continuity Management.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to facilitate meetings and effectively lead discussions.
• Ability to build and maintain effective working relationships with all levels of management and staff.
• High level of professionalism, commitment, and integrity.
• Commitment to growing and enhancing skills and knowledge.
• Occasional travel to and from other work locations may be required.
• Must have a high degree of business acumen, good project management and organizational skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to interface with business unit leaders, auditors, regulators, and third-party vendor representatives.
• Proven ability to work autonomously and in an efficient manner with minimal supervision.
• Strong team player with ability to influence opinions without having direct authority.
• Specific application skills include strong proficiency in Word and PowerPoint.

Nice To Haves

• Certifications CBCP or ABCP (strongly valued).

Responsibilities

• Facilitate businesses to update and maintain Business Continuity Plans (BCPs) for departments, processes, and critical services.
• Facilitate Business Impact Analyses (BIAs) and risk assessments with business owners.
• Facilitate businesses to identify critical processes, recovery time objectives (RTOs), recovery point objectives (RPOs), and dependencies.
• Maintain continuity documentation in accordance with organizational standards.
• Participate in the BCM strategic roadmap development and annual program plan at an executive level.
• Plan, execute, and document BC/DR exercises (tabletop, functional, and scenario-based).
• Coordinate with IT, facilities, HR, security, and third-party vendors during testing.
• Track issues, corrective actions, and improvement plans resulting from exercises.
• Support incident response and crisis management activities during disruptions.
• Provide guidance to business units on plan activation and recovery procedures.
• Participate in post-incident reviews and lessons-learned activities.
• Participate in the development and maintenance of enterprise BCM policies, standards, and procedures; ensure alignment with regulatory expectations and external audits.
• Support audits, assessments, and regulatory examinations related to business continuity.
• Improve BC program maturity, metrics, and reporting.
• Maintain inventories of critical services, applications, vendors, and resources.
• Develop and maintain executive-facing dashboards, KRIs, and metrics that demonstrate program maturity and risk reduction.
• Deliver business continuity training and awareness sessions for staff and plan owners.
• Coach business units on continuity best practices and plan ownership.
• Perform third-party risk and vendor continuity assessments.
• Review vendor BCP documentation and recovery capabilities.

Benefits

• Cathay Bank offers its full-time employees a competitive benefits package which is a significant part of their total compensation. It is our goal to provide employees with a comprehensive benefits package to fit their needs which includes, coverage for medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, life insurance, long-term disability insurance, and flexible spending accounts (FSAs), health saving account (HSA) with company contributions, voluntary coverages, and 401(k).

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees