Business Continuity Coordinator - Midvale, UT

Zions Bancorporation • Midvale, UT

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About The Position

Are you a driven individual who thrives on orchestrating seamless preparedness? Join our dynamic banking team as an experienced Business Continuity Coordinator, where you'll be the heartbeat of our resilience efforts! As a crucial liaison between business units, you'll play a pivotal role in ensuring our operations remain rock-solid, even in the face of unforeseen disruptions. Join our vibrant banking family, where your dedication to ensuring our unwavering stability will be celebrated and recognized. As an experienced Business Continuity Coordinator, you'll be at the forefront of securing our bank's future, safeguarding our reputation, and ensuring we can thrive amidst any challenge that comes our way. Apply now and embark on an exciting journey of preparedness and resilience! You’ll be joining an industry leading Enterprise Business Resilience program - one that doesn’t just check boxes, but actively protects our people, customers, and reputation in an increasingly unpredictable threat environment. As a Business Continuity Coordinator, you will play a critical role in strengthening the bank’s ability to withstand, respond to, and recover from disruptive events. This role is ideal for someone with a strong foundation in business continuity fundamentals, operational risk, disaster recovery, or related disciplines - who is ready to take ownership, grow into a trusted partner to the business, and contribute to a program that has full executive and board visibility.

Requirements

• 1-4+ years of experience in business continuity, disaster recovery, operational risk, emergency management, or a related field
• Ability to work professionally and confidently with business partners at multiple levels, including managers, department leaders, and executives as a trusted partner.
• Strong organizational and project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple deliverables and deadlines at the same time
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to translate technical requirements into plain-language guidance
• Analytical mindset: able to interpret risk, recovery, and operational data and turn it into actionable insights
• Ability to perform under pressure, remain composed during real-world incidents, and make efficient sound decisions, sometimes with incomplete information as events unfold
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Platforms (Excel, Word, PPT, SharePoint)

Nice To Haves

• Certifications (ABCP, CBCP, MBCI, ISO lead implementer, etc.) or desire to obtain one
• Experience in banking, financial services, or another regulated industry
• Familiarity with FFIEC, ISO 22301, NIST, or other continuity/resilience frameworks
• Familiarity with business continuity tools (Fusion, Archer, ServiceNow, etc.)

Responsibilities

• Coordinate business continuity lifecycle activities (BIA, strategy development, plan maintenance and development, annual updates, exercises, after-action reviews, corrective actions).
• Serve as a primary planning partner for assigned business units - guiding them through BIAs, risk discussions, recovery strategies, and professionally translate program expectations to the business.
• Lead facilitated business impact assessments (BIA) and risk assessments to evaluate critical processes, dependencies, recovery capabilities and proactively identify risk.
• Support the design, facilitation, and documentation of tabletop and simulation-based exercises across assigned business lines and functional areas.
• Maintain program documentation, dashboards, and compliance records to support regulatory and audit requirements (FFIEC, OCC, Internal Audit).
• Track and report on business continuity metrics, remediation items, after actions, and readiness indicators for leadership.
• Help develop and mature data-driven insights around resilience posture, emerging risks, and program performance.
• Support activation of the Crisis Management Framework, including status tracking, communication logs, and response coordination.
• Contribute to after-action reviews and ensure lessons learned are translated into lasting program improvements.
• Work alongside Disaster Recovery, Corporate Security, Supplier Resilience, and Operational Risk teams to advance a unified, enterprise-wide approach to resilience.
• Participate in platform roadmap work (e.g., Fusion, Archer, ServiceNow, etc.), process optimization, automation, and workflow upgrades.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance - START DAY ONE!
• Life and Disability Insurance, Paid Parental Leave and Adoption Assistance
• Health Savings (HSA), Flexible Spending (FSA) and dependent care accounts
• Paid Training, Paid Time Off (PTO) and 12 Paid Federal Holidays
• 401(k) plan with company match, Profit Sharing, competitive compensation in line with work experience
• Mental health benefits including coaching and therapy sessions.
• Tuition Reimbursement for qualifying employees
• Employee Ambassador preferred banking products

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees