Business Continuity Management, Senior Principal

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About the Role

•Drive, implementand maintainan effective Business Continuity Management (BCM) governance framework consistent with regulatory requirements and industry best practices/ standards, and adhere to the Company’s respective Standard(s).
•Advise business functions in the risk review of Third Party and identify threats and business operations being interrupted due to unanticipated events /disruptions.
•Advisebusiness functions on business continuity requires. (such as RTO and RPO).

Roles and Responsibilities:

Business Continuity Management (40%)

• Proactively identify opportunities for strategic improvement or mitigation of business interruption and other risks caused by business, regulatory, or industry-specific change initiatives; plus provide rectification suggestions.
• Conduct and manage review of Business Impact Analysis (BIA) and Business Continuity Plan (BCP) with different departmental Business Continuity Coordinators (BCCs).
• Proactively identify potential business interruptions, develop safeguards against these interruptions, and implement recovery procedures in the event of a business interruption.
• Provide prompt support during emergencies, incidents or crises that require the additional BC arrangements and/ or activation of BCP.
• Manage the emergency communications system and ensure that all staff are appropriately covered by this system. Conduct regular testing to validate the effectiveness of this system.
• Provide subject matter expertise to different business functions and facilitate projects ensuring high availability, appropriate risk mitigation, and recoverability that conforms to business needs.
• Maintain BC site and conduct regular testing to validate effectiveness of the defined business continuity plans.
• Self-start and prepare regular BCM reports and presentations as directly.

Management of Business Continuity Management Data & System (20%)

• Manage BCM system including but not limited to foundation data maintenance, and training.
• Manage BC capabilities of new or enhancement of IT systems and migration of IT systems to cloud.
• Manage BCM attributes of all IT applications on Application Portfolio Management system which is considered as the golden source for all the BCM related reporting and management scorecard.
• Strengthen the resilience design on new application in the new architecture governance process from BC perspective.

Facilitate Review of Third-Party Risk Assessments (20%)

• Advise business functions in the risk review of Third Party and identify threats and business operations being interrupted due to unanticipated events/disruptions.

Assessment of BCM Risk and Control Effectiveness (10%)

• Perform quarterlyupdate on the risk and control effectiveness assessments as well as Key Risk Indicators tracking, and take initiatives to facilitate the business in ensure the thresholds are met.
• Advisory business functions on business continuity requires (such as RTO and RPO) associated with a technology risk perspective.

Management Reporting (10%)

• Operational Risk Committee/ Risk Management Committee
• Quarterly BCM update to Group Office
• Ad-hoc presentation to senior management

Minimum Job Requirements:

• University graduate
• At least 10 years of management experience.Recognized BCM certification is preferred.
•  Proficient in both English and Chinese
• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills, with logical process thinking
• Ability to understand business issues and needs, and collaborated closely with key stakeholders.
• Able to work with multi-tasking skills, and quick re-prioritization when needed
• Excellent presentation skills
• Experience in Insurance or Financial Industry experience preferred.

Others:

• You are required to obtain relevant license if your job involves in regulated activities

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