Expert Business Impact Analysis

Job Title: Expert Business Impact Analysis Location: Oakland, CA Pay Rate: $40 - $65 per hour, W2 Duration: 14+ Month Contract Work Mode: Onsite as needed Summary Conduct Business Impact Analysis assessments and recovery requirements analysis across critical business and technology functions.Partner with business leaders, application teams, architects, cybersecurity, disaster recovery, and continuity stakeholders.Evaluate operational impacts, identify critical dependencies, establish recovery requirements, and support enterprise resilience initiatives.Lead complex assessments, facilitate stakeholder engagements, and deliver actionable recommendations. Responsibilities Lead enterprise-wide Business Impact Analysis (BIA) projects and assessments.Facilitate workshops with business leaders, application owners, architects, and technology teams.Evaluate financial, operational, customer, regulatory, safety, and reputational impacts.Determine and document Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs), Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs), Maximum Tolerable Downtime (MTD), and recovery priorities.Analyze end-to-end business processes, application dependencies, infrastructure dependencies, and third-party service relationships.Lead large-scale resilience, disaster recovery, cyber recovery, and operational readiness initiatives.Develop project plans, schedules, milestones, executive communications, and status reporting.Manage project risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, and remediation activities.Coordinate cross-functional teams to ensure successful project delivery.Translate BIA findings into actionable recovery and resiliency recommendations.Partner with Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity, Cyber Recovery, and Infrastructure teams.Support application recoverability assessments and recovery prioritization activities.Evaluate critical business services and supporting technology capabilities.Recommend process improvements, automation opportunities, and governance enhancements.Maintain BIA methodologies, standards, procedures, templates, and governance processes.Support internal audits, regulatory reviews, compliance initiatives, and resilience assessments.Develop executive dashboards, metrics, reports, and presentations for senior leadership.Serve as the enterprise BIA subject matter expert and trusted advisor.Build relationships with business leaders, technology organizations, risk management, cybersecurity, emergency preparedness, and continuity teams.Present findings, recommendations, roadmap activities, and risk assessments to leadership.Coach and educate stakeholders on resilience planning methodologies, standards, and best practices.