Sr. Associate, Business Continuity

Sr. Associate, Business Continuity

Country: United States of America

The Sr Associate Business Continuity develops, analyzes, implements, and oversees short-term and long-term strategic business processes and plans to increase operational efficiency, meet strategic vision, and achieve financial goals. Develops, presents, and implements business case recommendations and tactical/operational strategies based on analysis of global and industry trends, company objectives and key stakeholders. Manages, identifies, and develops strategic partnerships with business functions, management, and other internal/external stakeholders. Identifies and analyzes the company's strengths, weaknesses, and business opportunities to advise management and optimize business strategies. Monitors industry trends, competitor actions, economic developments, and regulatory environment to identify and plan for expected impact on business operations. Ensures the correct functioning of facilities, office, and business support services. Compiles, documents, communicates, and verifies information according to established procedures. Conducts business continuity planning in order to assure that essential company functions can operate during and following major disruptive events.

Develops strategies and plans to mitigate the impact of potential adverse conditions such as natural or structural disasters, acts of terror/war, cyber-attacks, etc., on company operations. Implements and monitors the company's business continuity planning programs. Coordinates business continuity testing and evaluation. Coordinates identification/analysis of the impact of various adverse events on the company's operations, including identifying critical product or service areas through risk analysis. Provides documentation and training on business continuity action plans.

Essential Functions:

• Develops, executes, and maintains of BIAs, risk assessments, recovery planning, incident management, testing, training, and reporting on the execution of deliverables designed for program maturity.
• Identifies areas where automation solutions can support increased efficiency and drive improvements in performance.
• Develops and maintains project plans, metrics and reporting, oversight of risk assessments and applications.
• Mitigates risk by following established procedures, spotting key errors, and demonstrating strong ethical behavior.
• Develops compliance and program maturity reporting and provides reports to external agencies.
• Identifies strategic program processes and direction.
• Responds to events that cause or have the potential to cause a disruption to the organization's operations.
• Develops, maintains, and strengthens relationships with business partners, Internal Audit, etc.
• Project manager for Business Continuity Program initiatives.

              

Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience: Emergency Management, Business Continuity Planning (BCP), Business, or equivalent field.
• Master's Degree MBCP (Master Business Continuity Professional) preferred

Work Experience:

• 9+ Years Experience in business continuity planning or relevant field such as, emergency management, disaster recovery or resiliency management.

                                

Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to capitalize on business opportunities to refine production processes to mitigate exposure during disruption service without adversely affecting day-to-day operations.
• Banking experience and knowledge
• Excellent attention to detail and “follow through” skills
• Strong technical and research skills
• Strong ability to quickly grasp and understand business unit specific AML risks
• Strong writing, analytical, and communication skills
• Ability to understand and draw conclusions from research conducted
• Takes initiatives, is proactive, self-motivator, self-starter, result driven out of the box thinker
• Knowledge of various systems including core banking systems, Hyland Web Director, BI and Microsoft Office required. Strong excel skills with knowledge of Pivot Tables.
• Ongoing sense of urgency and high level of flexibility

Diversity & EEO Statements: At Santander, we value and respect differences in our workforce and strive to increase the diversity of our teams. We actively encourage everyone to apply.