Business Continuity Manager
This role is responsible for supporting the bank’s ability to anticipate, prepare for, respond to, and recover from disruptive events, ensuring compliance with regulatory expectations. This role oversees the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of operational resilience strategies and business continuity plans across the bank. The role collaborates with cross-functional teams to proactively identify risks, mitigate operational disruptions, and ensure the continuity of critical business functions during times of crisis. This role also entails training staff and embedding resilience strategies within the first line of defense to effectively manage risk and maintain operational stability across the bank.
Key Responsibilities:
- Establish and maintain BCP policy and processes, keep up to date with regulations and guidelines specific to business continuity management, and recommend improvements and updates to policies, standards, and procedures.
- Risk Assessment: Conduct thorough risk assessments to identify potential threats and vulnerabilities to the organization’s operations, systems, and infrastructure.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure the development and testing of business continuity and disaster recovery plans for critical business functions and systems and updated based on evolving risks and business needs
- Business Impact Analysis (BIA) Coordinator: Coordinating the business impact analysis process within the bank to identify critical business functions, assess the potential impact of disruptions, and help in determining the necessary steps to maintain business continuity and minimize risks.
- Crisis Management and Incident Response: Support with managing risk events and incidents, coordinating response efforts to minimize operational disruption.
- Third-Party Risk Management: Support the business in recommending appropriate resilience and continuity frameworks for managing third-party relationships.
- Design training programs to promote business continuity awareness, ensure compliance, and report regularly on program status and improvements.
- Management Reporting: Provide regular reports to senior management, BCM Team, CMT, and the board on the state of operational resilience, risks, incidents, and the effectiveness of continuity plans.
- Continuous Improvement:
- Identify areas for improvement in operational resilience practices, leveraging lessons learned from testing, incidents, and risk assessments to enhance the bank’s preparedness.
- Documentation and Communication: Ensure all documentation related to resilience and continuity, including self-assessment, policies, procedures, and plans, is current, accurate, and effectively communicated to relevant stakeholders.
- Ensure alignment and integration of business continuity management (BCM) across all business units and subsidiaries.
The Person
For the above position, the successful applicant should have the following:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or related field
- A professional certification in MBCI/CBCP/ BCI-MBCI, DRII-CFCP, ISO 22301, CBCM, EC-Council Disaster Recovery Professional (EDRP)
- Minimum of five (5) years’ Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery experience, four (4) of which should be in Risk Management
- 3 years’ experience in management reporting.
- 2 years’ experience in project management.
- 2 years’ experience in IT/Banking operations
To be considered your application must be received by Friday 13th June 2025
Qualified candidates with disability are encouraged to apply.
Only short-listed candidates will be contacted
