Senior Analyst, Business Continuity

About the Role

Reporting to the VP Enterprise Business Continuity for the firm, the Business Continuity Senior Analyst supports the enterprise business continuity strategic vision and initiatives. This role contributes to and provides hands-on support for the development, implementation, and ongoing evolution of the Firm’s comprehensive enterprise business continuity programs. The Senior Business Continuity Analyst leads efforts in translating program requirements for business unit resiliency partners into actionable activities to establish or improve business continuity processes and controls, including business impact analyses, risk assessments, resiliency testing, quality reviews, supplier resiliency, and crisis management.

The role requires effective communication and collaboration with partners across all business units to assess resiliency risk and produce routine and ad hoc resiliency reports.

Responsibilities

• Support and contribute to Enterprise Resiliency policy, strategies, plans, and playbooks.
• Establish working relationships with key business partners to understand business processes and provide hands-on execution to drive Business Continuity Lifecycle activities, such as developing and maintaining business unit business continuity plans and executing plan testing.
• Contribute to resiliency training to support firm preparedness.
• Execute program controls to detect resiliency risk issues, document risk, recommend corrective actions, and mitigate controls.
• Support event response, management, and crisis communications in response to actual or potential business disruptions, including after-hours support as needed.
• Support the creation, implementation, testing, and execution of crisis response plans and playbooks.
• Provide reporting and analysis support to Enterprise Resiliency leaders during business interruptions impacting the firm, both internally and externally.
• Develop and distribute resiliency metrics, including ad hoc, initiative-based, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual management reports.
• Execute Third Party vendor resiliency risk assessments to ensure they meet the firm’s resiliency requirements.

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience in a resiliency risk, resiliency business controls function, or risk function.
• Business Continuity Certification Designation (MBCP, CBCP, or ABCP or BCI equivalent) or successful attainment of CBCP certification within the first 6-12 months as a condition of employment.
• Experience using BCP planning and incident management tools (preferably Archer GRC, Everbridge, NC4, GETS/WPS).

Skills

• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively on a geographically dispersed team, prioritize effectively, and produce quality, on-time deliverables.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with strong interpersonal relationship-building ability.
• Self-motivated, with a willingness to take on challenges and adaptability to support and adopt change.
• Effective time and meeting management skills.
• Analytical skills and experience.
• Proficiency in PC skills (Microsoft Office with emphasis on Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Project, and Adobe).

Benefits

LPL offers a highly competitive Total Rewards package designed to support success at work, at home, and at play. Benefits include 401K matching, health benefits, employee stock options, paid time off, and volunteer time off.

Pay

Pay Range: $80,855.00 - $134,827.00. Actual base salary varies based on factors including relevant skill, prior experience, education, base salary of internal peers, demonstrated performance, and geographic location.

About the Company

LPL Financial Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: LPLA) is among the fastest-growing wealth management firms in the U.S. As a leader in the financial advisor-mediated marketplace, LPL supports over 32,000 financial advisors and the wealth management practices of approximately 1,100 financial institutions, servicing and custodying approximately $2.3 trillion in brokerage and advisory assets on behalf of approximately 8 million Americans. The firm provides a wide range of advisor affiliation models, investment solutions, fintech tools, and practice management services, ensuring advisors and institutions have the flexibility to choose the business model, services, and technology resources they need to run thriving businesses.

At LPL, independence means advisors and institution leaders have the freedom to choose the business model, services, and technology resources that allow them to run a thriving business. They have the flexibility to do business their way and manage their client relationships, as they know their clients best.