Business Continuity Lead

Primary Office: 626 Washington Place, Pittsburgh, PA 15219. Business Unit: Business Continuity. Reports to: Manager of Business Continuity. This position does not offer visa sponsorship; candidates must be legally authorized to work in the U.S.

About the role

This position plays a pivotal role in strengthening FNB's resiliency posture by driving initiatives that safeguard critical systems, ensure operational resiliency, and support rapid recovery in the face of various threats and application outages. The ideal candidate is a critical thinker with strong project management capabilities and a deep understanding of risk mitigation, incident response, business continuity, and regulatory compliance.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the development and execution of FNB's Business Continuity Management process, ensuring alignment between corporate objectives, industry standards, and regulatory requirements (FFIEC); proactively monitor emerging industry trends and evolving regulatory expectations to identify and implement opportunities for program enhancement and maturity.
• Conduct and update Business Impact Analyses (BIAs) and Business Continuity Plans with cross-functional teams, ensuring they reflect current business processes and align with Risk Control Self-Assessments (RCSAs); assess plans following business disruptions and exercises for potential gaps and ensure areas for improvement are remediated.
• Design, facilitate, and evaluate exercises that test Business Continuity Plans to validate plan effectiveness, enhance preparedness, and test recovery capabilities; partner with Disaster Recovery and IT to conduct Disaster Recovery Exercises that test critical business process recovery; train personnel with a continuity role.
• Serve as the primary on-call contact (on a rotating basis) for business disruptions affecting FNB, ensuring rapid response and coordination; partner with departments to identify impacts (leveraging their BIAs) to the corporation, implement continuity strategies to maintain operations, and prioritize the recovery of business processes.
• Work with Third-Party Risk Management and other applicable departments to ensure vendor-related continuity risks are identified, assessed, and reflected in both vendor profiles and Business Continuity Plans.
• Develop reports for leadership highlighting critical updates within the Business Continuity program, including data trends, project progress, and risk and performance metrics; strategically utilize and develop FNB's Business Continuity and Incident Management platform.
• Collaborate with departments on contingency planning for potential disruptions that could negatively affect the corporation, including identifying potential risks, assessing impacts, and developing actionable plans to respond effectively if those risks materialize.
• Perform other related duties and projects as assigned.
• All employees serve as risk managers for their businesses by understanding, reporting, responding to, managing, and monitoring risk encountered daily as required by F.N.B. Corporation's risk management program; compliance with regulatory laws and company procedures is a required component of this position.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree (BA or BS)
• Minimum 5 years of job-related experience
• Certified Business Continuity Planner (CBCP) and/or Certified Emergency Manager (CEM) preferred

Skills

• Excellent organizational, analytical, and interpersonal skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Detail-oriented
• Ability to work and multi-task in a fast-paced environment
• Proficiency with personal computer and job-related software: MS Word (Basic), MS Excel (Intermediate), MS PowerPoint (Basic)