Business Continuity Manager&Crisis Manager

Role & responsibilities

• Develop disaster recovery plans for physical locations with critical assets such as data centers.
• Develop contingency plans to deal with organizational emergencies.
• Test documented disaster recovery strategies and plans.
• Analyze impact on, and risk to, essential business functions or information systems to identify acceptable recovery time periods and resource requirements.
• Assess risks to business operations.
• Develop emergency management plans for recovery decision making and communications, continuity of critical departmental processes, or temporary shut-down of non-critical departments to ensure continuity of operation and governance.
• Develop contingency plans to deal with organizational emergencies.
• Review existing disaster recovery, crisis management, or business continuity plans.
• Develop contingency plans to deal with organizational emergencies.
• Establish, maintain, or test call trees to ensure appropriate communication during disaster.
• Interpret government regulations and applicable codes to ensure compliance.
• Evaluate applicable laws and regulations to determine impact on organizational activities.
• Conduct or oversee contingency plan integration and operation.
• Develop contingency plans to deal with organizational emergencies.
• Write reports to summarize testing activities, including descriptions of goals, planning, scheduling, execution, results, analysis, conclusions, and recommendations.
• Prepare research reports.
• Identify opportunities for strategic improvement or mitigation of business interruption and other risks caused by business, regulatory, or industry-specific change initiatives.
• Identify strategic business investment opportunities.
• Create business continuity and disaster recovery budgets.
• Analyze budgetary or accounting data.
• Create or administer training and awareness presentations or materials.
• Develop training materials.
• Train personnel in organizational or compliance procedures.
• Maintain and update organization information technology applications and network systems blueprints.
• Maintain data in information systems or databases.
• Conduct or oversee collection of corporate intelligence to avoid fraud, financial crime, cyber-attack, terrorism, and infrastructure failure.
• Gather organizational performance information.
• Oversee business processes.
• Recommend or implement methods to monitor, evaluate, or enable resolution of safety, operations, or compliance interruptions.
• Monitor organizational compliance with regulations.
• Advise others on analytical techniques.
• Analyze corporate intelligence data to identify trends, patterns, or warnings indicating threats to security of people, assets, information, or infrastructure.
• Assess risks to business operations.
• Analyze business or financial data.
• Design or implement products and services to mitigate risk or facilitate use of technology-based tools and methods.
• Develop business or financial information systems.
• Prepare reports summarizing operational results, financial performance, or accomplishments of specified objectives, goals, or plans.
• Prepare operational reports.
• Create scenarios to re-establish operations from various types of business disruptions.
• Apply mathematical models of financial or business conditions.
• Attend professional meetings, read literature, and participate in training or other educational offerings to keep abreast of new developments and technologies related to disaster recovery and business continuity.
• Update professional knowledge.
• Identify individual or transaction targets to direct intelligence collection.

Investigate legal issues

Preferred candidate profile