Bus Continuity Consultant

About the role

This job is responsible for consulting on corporate business continuity topics with clients. Key responsibilities include recommending and implementing solutions that protect the bank's assets and participating or leading business continuity initiatives and ongoing process activities (i.e., scenario analysis, plan development, testing, event management, and progress reporting/measurement).

Responsibilities

• Evaluates the performance of plans, processes, and programs at assigned organizational level, while assessing progress towards identified objectives
• Conducts current-state risk-based assessments to develop business continuity management strategies and monitors the effectiveness following the implementation of the plan
• Implements, monitors, and modifies procedures for the effective response to incidents and the continuance of critical business services, based on testing and exercises of plans or actual events
• Sets up, runs, and oversees tests of business continuity plans to assess readiness, identify deficiencies, and promote enhancements
• Builds and maintains the following deliverables for the GBRC’s portfolio of business functions:
• Business Impact Analysis (BIA) – functional risk assessment to determine the function’s Recovery Time Objective (RTO). Also includes identification of the function’s application, 3rd party, and other function dependencies
• Business Recovery Plan (BRP) – recovery strategies and tasks for recovery of the function; includes recovery for physical location disruption, dependency disruption, and employee unavailability (e.g., pandemic)
• Business Recovery Function-Location Testing – the GBRC will write test scripts and expected results and oversee test execution by function teams
• Participates in or runs projects from time-to-time based on availability, project topic knowledge, and career interests

Requirements

Required Skills:

• Ability to work independently with a bias for action
• Capability to learn quickly and demonstrate critical thinking
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written
• Comfortable guiding the business through key business continuity deliverables and confidence to influence the development of robust, executable business recovery strategies
• Ability to build strong relationships with business function owners and become a trusted advisor on resiliency and business continuity topics
• Proficient with Microsoft Office suite of applications including Word, Excel, PowerPoint

Qualifications

Desired Skills:

• Working knowledge of Global Operations (GO) environment and processes
• Experience with resiliency and business continuity key concepts, including internal standards and tools (Continuity Planning Tool – CPT)

Skills

• Active Listening
• Adaptability
• Attention to Detail
• Critical Thinking
• Data Collection and Entry
• Collaboration
• Continuous Improvement
• Issue Management
• Record Keeping
• Written Communications
• Business Continuity Management
• Data Management
• Data and Trend Analysis
• Policies, Procedures, and Guidelines Management
• Process Simplification

Benefits

Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture that supports collaboration, engagement, and career development. Our approach includes clear in-office expectations, while providing an appropriate level of flexibility based on role-specific responsibilities and business needs.

Pay

N/A

Schedule

1st shift (United States of America)

Application Instructions

N/A