Summary

The Business Continuity Specialist is supporting the development and maintenance of CA-CIB Americas business continuity program. The person will support all activities necessary to enable CA-CIB Americas to respond to a business interruption (BCP event). When a BCP event occurs, the BCP specialist serves as a “first responder” with the head of BCP and coordinates activities, from initial event response until return to business as usual. 

Key Responsibilities

·         Support the Business Impact Assessment (BIA) campaign.

·         Contribute to the Threat Risk Assessment.

·         Support testing plan.

·         Support audits, both internal and from the regulator.

·         Contribute updates to BCP documentation.

·         Work closely with IT to develop/maintain DR plans for critical systems and applications and to ensure that disaster recovery sites are adequately tested.

·          Coordinate the production and update of BCP/DR materials and documentation (e.g., emergency response procedures, call lists, test results, etc.).

·         Support New York BCP floor plan use and seat assignments.

·         Identify BCP operational and IT office requirements (i.e. desktop, communication devices, printers, etc) as per the BIA and coordinate with the Facilities & GIT departments any construction, restacking and IT requests in support of the BCP program.

·         Support maintenance of SendWordNow data and pre-defined messages.

·         Support CEAS (Corporate Emergency Access System-BNET) data and allocation

·         Support GETS/WPS data and testing

Management and Reporting

·         Reports to the Head of BCP

Desirable

• BS degree in IT Technologies

Essential

• Crisis and stress management
• General CIB business understanding
• General information systems knowledge

Desirable

• ISO 22301 certification is recommended