Business Continuity Specialist

Control Risks’ Embedded Consulting team is looking for a Business Continuity Analyst to help support a Fortune 100 client's corporate business continuity program focused on the Americas region. The analyst will be in charge of executing the business continuity plans as put together by the Head of Business Continuity and Business Continuity Regional Managers.

This position will require the candidate to be onsite 3 days a week in one of the following locations: Herndon, VA, Arlington, VA, NYC, NY, Seattle, WA, Austin, TX

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Executing the BC strategy as developed by the Head of Corporate BC and Regional BC managers.
• Working with regional business teams to conduct business impact and risk assessments, identify critical services, define recovery objectives, and map critical dependencies.
• Working with business teams to document BC plan needs in Corporate Continuity tool to drive consistency and attestation.
• Partnering with the Business, and Global Real Estate and Facilities team to coordinate recovery strategies as identified through the Business Continuity planning process.
• Facilitating business continuity exercises and tests, to identify potential gaps in plans, as well as functionality of work transference processes supporting recovery.
• Work with large amounts of data and create meaningful reports.
• Support in launching and maintaining tools and POC for conducting trainings.
• Liaison with support teams to implement the program.
• Supporting workplace resilience initiatives by working with multiple stakeholders to include facilities, business continuity, information technology, security and crisis management, for the purpose of seamlessly integrating within the disaster response cycle, as required.

Requirements

• 4+ years' experience implementing and managing business continuity or resilience for a large organization or government entity. 
• Strong written and oral communication skills necessary to build relationships and positively influence decision making. 
• Experience with commercial Business Continuity tools 
• Experience in supporting internal teams to respond and recover from significant disruptive events. 
• Ability to dive deep into data, existing processes, people, and technology challenges in order to identify risks and opportunities. 
• Strong interpersonal skills, including the written and oral communication skills necessary to build relationships and positively influence decision making. 
• Demonstrated ability to meet deadlines while managing multiple complex projects. 
• Disaster Recovery Institute International (DRII), Business Continuity Institute (BCI), or other business continuity professional certification a plus. 
• Ability to travel across assigned regions and internationally as needed.

The base salary range for this position in California or NYC is $80,000-$105,000 per year. Exact compensation offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. This information is provided per California SB 1162 and the NYC Wage Transparency Law.

Benefits

• Control Risks offers a competitively positioned compensation and benefits package that is transparent and summarized in the full job offer.
• We operate a discretionary bonus scheme that incentivizes, and rewards individuals based on company and individual performance
• Control Risks supports hybrid working arrangements, wherever possible, that emphasize the value of in-person time together - in the office and with our clients - while continuing to support flexible and remote working.
• Control Risks offers a competitive 401(K) plan with the option for both pre-tax and after-tax Roth contributions to the plan. Currently, the Company matches dollar-for-dollar up to 6% of your annual salary, per pay period
• Control Risks offers 15 days vacation accrued on a monthly basis, prorated based on start date
• Control Risks offers 10 sick days accrued on a monthly basis, pro-rated based on your start date
• Control Risks Embedded Consulting teams paid vacations are based on the client’s paid holidays
• Control Risks offers Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance
• The base salary range for this position in Washington is $80000-$90000 per year. Exact compensation offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.