Associate Director, Operational Resilience

The Core Responsibilities Of The Job:

• Contribute to the development and execute on the enhancement of the Operational Resilience roadmap, methodologies, mechanisms, standards, reporting and operating procedures.
• Facilitate critical operations identification, assessment and the mapping of internal and external dependencies.
• Establish tolerances for disruption including impacts to critical operations, systems, facilities and third parties.
• Facilitate ongoing scenario analysis and testing, including integration of events by business units and, enterprise-wide levels are conducted as applicable.
• Plan and facilitate the annual schedule of Business Continuity Management (BCM) Program activities including working sessions to prepare for exercises or tests.
• Administer and support activities related to BCM including business impact assessments, plan reviews, reporting and communications.
• Coordinate disaster recovery business testing activities including review of test plans, results and supporting communications.
• As the Operational Resilience SME, support the third party risk reviews for material third parties in collaboration with Procurement and other advisory SMEs.
• Integrate operational resilience use of risk identification tools such as the new initiative risk assessment (NIRA) and the Risk and Control Self-Assessment (RCSA) and third party risk assessments
• Develop and maintain policies, procedures, and methodologies for effective second line challenge, review, testing and monitoring.
• Evaluate and challenge Key Risk Indicator (KRI) reporting to validate accuracy and identify trends.
• Conduct reviews/investigations and prepare reports for operational risk events and/or incidents.
• Provide recommendations on potential emerging risks and significant events which could have a material impact on the successful achievement of corporate objectives.
• Create and manage the delivery of operational resilience, business continuity, crisis management training to relevant employees within the business and /or critical business service to ensure they are familiar with their roles and responsibilities
• Support regularly-scheduled and ad-hoc risk reporting and analytics to support senior management reporting.

Let's Talk About You!

• 3-5 years of experience in operational resilience, business continuity/disaster recovery, crisis management.
• 5-7 years of experience in an operational risk and/or information technology risk oversight role in a financial institution.
• Undergraduate degree in finance, economics, business administration or technology is an asset
• Professional designation or certification such as CBCP or MBCI industry certification or equivalent is preferred.
• Knowledge of risk management, compliance matters, and corporate governance.
• Familiarity with the risk and control frameworks
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills and problem-solving abilities. Strong attention to detail.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills coupled with meeting facilitation abilities and good presentation skills.
• Good organizational, project and time management skills to efficiently deliver concurrent projects with competing priorities. PMP would be considered an asset.
• Knowledge and awareness of the financial industry, risk management practices and regulatory and/or policy changes.