Business Continuity Planning Manager

To qualify for the role, you must have

• Graduate or equivalent.
• 4+ years of work experience with at least 2 of years in Business Continuity Planning.
• Exposure to Project management, tools designing/implementation.
• Exposure to emerging and evolving technologies like AI, Bots, RPA and tools such and similar as Archer, Everbridge, SharePoint, SAP, Power BI, Power Apps etc.
• BCP Certification (Associate Business Continuity Professional, Certified Business Continuity Vendor, Lead Auditor/Implementor ISO 22301) will be an added advantage.

The opportunity

• You will be part of EY GDS Global Risk Management - BCP team and will support to ensure compliance to internal policy requirements and state of readiness. Your key responsibilities include:
• Support GDS local and central teams in crisis management, incident management and associated logistics and reporting.
• Support development, implementation and maintenance of business continuity plans.
• Partner closely with the Service Lines towards best-in-class program and relationship.
• Support stakeholders with coordination and facilitation of Risk Assessments, Resilience Assessments, Business Impact Analysis and their refresh.
• Review strategies of plans for alignment across service lines, assess reasonableness of requirements. Review technology and real estate requirements as a level of reasonableness.
• Coordinate and support the business during a real crisis situation
• Support GDS Business Continuity Planning Program Office with review and monitoring of projects.
• Ensure Recoverability gaps are identified, and Risks are highlighted and addressed timely.
• Ensure plans are in compliance with internal policy requirements, local regulations and any additional Service Line requirements.
• Support integration/implementation of GDS BCP Program framework to new GDS centers/cities/countries.
• Support and conduct BCP Exercises across GDS Centers, Walkthroughs through full scale exercises.
• Become proficient in exercising scenarios appropriate to the business, understanding of the business and create exercises especially relevant to internal customers.
• Maintain sound working knowledge of EY GDSs operations, including organizational structure, policies, processes, products and systems.
• Keep abreast of industry news and how it affects EY GDSs Business Continuity.
• Deployment, maintenance, enhancements of tools and technologies used by the team/organization.

Skills and attributes for success

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Proven ability to influence and communicate effectively across all organizational levels.
• Must be able to deal effectively with ambiguity.
• Ability to build and maintain interpersonal relationships.

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Experience in working in large matrixed organization .
• Flexible to travel, if required.
• Strong knowledge of both business recovery and testing methodologies.
• Credible experience working in a fast-moving, client-centric multi- national environment.