Tabletop Exercise Manager

Brown Brothers Harriman • Jersey City, NJ

21d

About The Position

At BBH, Partnership is more than a form of ownership—it’s our approach to business and relationships. We know that supporting your professional and personal goals is the best way to help our clients and advance our business. We take that responsibility seriously. With a 200-year legacy and a shared passion for what’s next, this is the right place to build a fulfilling career. Tabletop Exercise Manager Background: The Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (“BD/DR”) team is a team within the Protect Pillar in Systems. The Protect Pillar is a unique BBH-construct designed for clear, centralized and coordinated accountability: to protect against physical and logical security risks; to safeguard stakeholder assets; and to detect, prepare for, and respond effectively to security events. To that end, the Protect Pillar encompasses the following areas: Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Cybersecurity; Enterprise Data Protection and Data Governance; Global Security; and Information Security Management (“ISM”). Given that technology is an integral component of the Pillar’s control measures and a key asset to safeguard, the Protect Pillar sits within BBH’s Systems organization. Role: Reporting to the Head of Program and Projects within the Protect Pillar, we are seeking an experienced Tabletop Exercise Manager for planning, designing and executing scenario-based tabletop exercises to practice and validate the Firm’s readiness across Cybersecurity, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery and Global Security programs.

Requirements

• Minimum 8+ years of experience in cybersecurity, information security or business continuity / disaster recovery role, preferably within financial services
• Proven experience in designing and facilitating tabletop exercises
• Understanding of cybersecurity response frameworks (e.g., NIST, ISO, FFIEC, DORA), DFS Part 500 regulations, DORA, BCP/DR best practices and industry practices
• Excellent analytical and communication skills
• Strong PowerPoint and Excel skills

Responsibilities

• Designing and developing tabletop exercises.
• Creating realistic, threat-informed scenarios aligned to BBH’s environment, covering cybersecurity, BCP and physical security-related events
• Tailoring exercises to BBH locations and business units
• Ensuring tabletop exercises test both decision-making and technical capabilities under simulated conditions
• Facilitating tabletop sessions.
• Leading engaging and structured tabletop discussions with participants across the Firm
• Conducting post-exercise analysis and reporting.
• Documenting findings, gaps and best practices from each exercise.
• Providing clear after-action reports.
• Partnering with stakeholders to track and verify closure of action items
• Aligning tabletop exercise frequency and scope to be consistent with regulatory expectations
• Incorporating industry threat intelligence lessons from cyber events and BCP events into tabletop exercise designs
• Recommending program enhancements as appropriate

Benefits

• BBH and its affiliates' compensation program includes base salary, discretionary bonuses, and profit-sharing.
• BBH's total rewards package recognizes your contributions with more than just a paycheck—providing you with benefits that enhance your experience at BBH from long-term savings, healthcare, and income protection to professional development opportunities and time off, our programs support your overall well-being.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 11-50 employees