Business Continuity Lead
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Job Overview
The Business Resiliency Lead is responsible for overseeing, coordinating, and executing the organization's business continuity strategy. This role involves developing and implementing strategies to prepare for, respond to, and recover from unforeseen events that threaten the organization's lines of business, operations, reputation, regulatory standing or stakeholders. Job Description
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Own and conduct the Enterprise Business Impact Analyses (BIA) and assist business leaders in determining business processes and identifying criticality, recovery time objectives (RTO), recovery point objectives (RPO), maximum tolerable downtimes (MTD) and map critical dependencies.
- Conduct business continuity risk assessment for the enterprise, analyzing potential business impact of unpredictable business interruptions such as natural disasters, security breach, legal claims, and market disruptions.
- Develop and maintain business continuity plans; reviews, revises, and expands existing protocols (call tree, recovery team, contact information, alternate site requirements, roles and responsibilities, scenario procedures, etc.)
- Coordinates with 3rd party vendor relationship managers to establish, document, and test 3rd party contingency plans, resolution plans and coordinates testing and performance management.
- Establish BC testing methodologies; schedule - coordinate the exercises with recovery support and technical services groups. Testing to include Alternate Site Testing, Table-Tops, Call Tree Testing, 3rd Party Testing.
- Facilitate BC exercises for business units, applications, systems, and platforms; coordinate the post-exercise evaluation - follow-up process, including status reporting, issue tracking and improvement recommendations.
- Contributes to the development of the Bank's enterprise incident and crisis management plans.
- Regularly interacting with various technology support group management - staff for the purpose of planning, directing, controlling and maintaining Valley's recovery planning documentation and alternate site exercise - validation program.
- Identify, review - verify all resources and critical documents; ensure that information is current and compiled in business continuity planning documentation. Assemble inventory of alternate site requirements (files, computer systems, applications, etc.), components essential for alternate site processing and operations.
- Provide 7X24, on-call support for any emergency which may require activation of all or part of the Business Recovery or Disaster Recovery plans.
- Participate in internal and external audits related to the BC/DR Program, Enterprise Resiliency Program or Enterprise Resiliency related capabilities.
Requirements
Required Skills:
- Thorough knowledge - understanding of FFIEC's Business Continuity Management framework.
- Strong background in Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery and Operational Resiliency knowledge.
- Strong written - verbal communications skills and the ability to interface with all levels of management.
- Strong background and understanding of US Financial Institutions key functions, processes and resources.
- Proficient in MSOffice Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, and Project Management applications).
- Ability to build positive relationships across multiple stakeholders, senior leadership team, and department heads, etc.
- Executive-level written and verbal communication skills, interpersonal and collaborative skills, and the ability to communicate BCP/DR related concepts to technical and nontechnical audiences.
- Poise and ability to act calmly and competently in high-pressure, high-stress situations.
- Exhibit excellent analytical skills, the ability to manage multiple projects under strict timelines, as well as the ability to work well in a demanding, dynamic environment and meet overall objectives.
Required Experience:
- Bachelor's degree in a related field, Financial Industry or Banking background.
- Minimum of 5 years of related experience with at least 4 years of Business Continuity and/or Disaster Recovery Management (or comparable) experience.
- Associate Business Continuity Planner (ABCP) or similar industry certification.
Preferred Experience:
- Certified Business Continuity Planner (CBCP) or similar industry certification.
Location(s)
New York
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New York
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United States
Morristown
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New Jersey
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United States Total Rewards Summary
We provide a comprehensive and competitive total rewards package including base salary determined by factors such as the role, relevant experience, skill set, and geographical location. Eligible positions may also be eligible to receive commission-based compensation and/or discretionary incentive compensation, which may be awarded as cash or forfeitable equity, recognizing individual performance and contributions.
In addition to financial compensation, we offer a robust suite of benefits tailored to meet diverse employee needs based on eligibility criteria. These include comprehensive health care and insurance plans, retirement savings options, tuition and adoption reimbursement programs, paid time off, mental health support, and other valuable benefits programs. Further details regarding total compensation and benefits will be shared during the hiring process. Job Details
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$96,000.00 - $167,700.00 / year Pay Transparency
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Valley National Bank
$96,000.00 - $167,700.00 / yr
paid time off
Jun 26, 2025