Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Analyst

Venerable•Des Moines, IA

22h•Hybrid

About The Position

The Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BC/DR) Analyst develops plans, executes and tests the availability and recovery of business processes. This role requires understanding of both technical solutions and business functions. The BC/DR Analyst must understand business goals and strategy, along with operational requirements in a fast-paced environment. The BC/DR Analyst supports continuous changes to the business to ensure critical processes are identified and prioritized according to business needs. The Analyst acts a liaison to business stakeholders to understand their strategy and execution outlook. The BC/DR Analyst embodies a strong work ethic and demonstrates analytical and critical thinking. The role must coordinate with diverse business units to ensure recovery objectives are achievable. Strong listening and communication skills, the ability to work well with business units and reasonable technical expertise are all expected. The BC/DR Analyst will work in tandem with business units to include risk and business impact assessments, along with recovery time and point objectives. An understanding of compliance mandates is also a key requirement. Additionally, and in conjunction with security and technical leadership and multi-disciplinary departments, the BC/DR Analyst embodies business and technical principles and constantly assesses business risk to crucial business components.

Requirements

Experience in a BC/DR role or related experience.
Project management experience.
Understanding and support of ISO 22301 and comprehension of ISO 27001.
Knowledge of DR and BCP frameworks (DRII and BCI).
Experience in business impact analysis planning, incident response planning and execution of plan testing.
Technical acumen to understand critical business applications’ technical dependencies.
Experience coordinating internal teams with third-party service providers.
Proven trustworthiness and history of acting with integrity, taking pride in work, seeking to excel, being curious and adaptable, and communicating well.
Self-starter requiring minimal supervision.
Excellence in communicating business risk and remediation requirements from assessments.
Analytical and problem-solving mindset.
Highly organized and efficient.
Demonstrated strategic and tactical thinking, along with decision-making skills and business acumen.

Nice To Haves

Knowledge and experience with ITIL in BC management preferred.
Previous IT Security or systems administration-related experience are a plus.
Preferably, one or more (or working toward one or more) of the following: CISSP, ABCP, CBCP, MBCP, CRISC or PMP.

Responsibilities

Work within the team to consistently learn and share skills and practices that promote team excellence
Build relationships with business leaders, technical teams, governance and third parties to incorporate availability and recovery needs.
Serve as a primary point of contact for new and existing BC planning and recovery objectives.
Maintain templates that align with strategies around business applications, impact assessment, key dependencies, and recovery objectives and expectations.
Define, create and socialize BC planning and recovery policies signed off by senior leadership.
Conduct reviews with business units based on criticality; at a minimum, conduct annual reviews for critical processes.
Organize, communicate and enforce BC lifecycle planning, along with business impact analysis reviews.
Monitor risk intelligence feeds for threats against people, process, technology, locations, and suppliers.
Review critical third-party contracts of service providers delivering recovery facilities.
Arrange and ensure testing of plans is executed to verify capabilities to recover and operate are met.
Partner with industry consortia and develop strong networking and relationship opportunities.
Perform other duties as assigned.