Business Continuity Manager Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• 7 years of experience in Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Operational Resilience, Risk Management, or related disciplines.
• 7 years of experience conducting BIA, risk assessments, tabletop exercises, and disaster recovery testing.
• 5 years of experience working with cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP) and hybrid infrastructure recovery strategies.
• 5 years of experience supporting VMWare products
• 5 years of experience supporting Dell EMC technologies
• 3 years of experience managing enterprise-level resilience programs within financial services, investment management, banking, or capital markets.
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Technology, Risk Management, Finance, or related field.

Nice To Haves

• Strong understanding of recovery methodologies, risk assessment frameworks, and operational resilience principles.
• Experience supporting investment management platforms, trading systems, portfolio management applications, and market data services.
• Knowledge of SEC, FINRA, ERISA, OCC, FCA, or other financial services regulatory requirements.
• Professional certifications such as: CBCP (Certified Business Continuity Professional) MBCP (Master Business Continuity Professional) CISM CRISC PMP CISSP
• Familiarity with ServiceNow BCM, Fusion Risk Management, Archer, or similar GRC platforms.
• Exceptional stakeholder management, communication, and executive presentation skills.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple initiatives and drive cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and enhance enterprise-wide Business Continuity Plans (BCPs) aligned with business objectives and regulatory requirements.
• Conduct Business Impact Analyses (BIA) and risk assessments to identify critical business functions, recovery priorities, and operational dependencies.
• Partner with business stakeholders to establish Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs).
• Facilitate annual reviews and updates of continuity plans across all business units.
• Ensure continuity strategies adequately support trading operations, portfolio management, client reporting, fund accounting, and other critical investment processes.
• Lead enterprise disaster recovery planning for critical applications, infrastructure, cloud services, and third-party platforms.
• Coordinate DR testing activities, including tabletop exercises, technical failover tests, and full-scale recovery simulations.
• Track remediation of identified gaps and drive continuous improvements across recovery capabilities.
• Partner with Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, Cloud Engineering, and Application teams to ensure recoverability of critical systems.
• Maintain recovery documentation, runbooks, and testing evidence to support audit and regulatory reviews.
• Support the firm's operational resilience framework and critical business services mapping initiatives.
• Coordinate crisis management planning, response procedures, and executive communications.
• Lead incident response coordination during business disruptions and disaster events.
• Develop reporting and dashboards for senior leadership regarding resiliency readiness, testing outcomes, and risk exposure.
• Ensure compliance with applicable financial services regulations and industry standards.
• Collaborate with Risk Management, Internal Audit, Compliance, Information Security, and technology leadership teams.
• Present program status, testing results, and key risk indicators to executives and governance committees.
• Manage policy development and control documentation aligned with industry frameworks including FFIEC, ISO 22301, NIST, and regulatory resiliency requirements.
• Evaluate third-party and critical vendor resilience capabilities.
• Partner with Vendor Risk Management teams to assess continuity and recovery preparedness.
• Monitor recovery obligations and service-level commitments for outsourced business services and technology providers.

Benefits

• health, dental and vision insurance
• 401(k)
• flexible spending account
• paid leave (including PTO and parental leave)