Third-Party Disaster Recovery Risk Assessor

This role is critical to the success of the T&O Business Continuity & Third-Party Disaster Readiness team’s ability to build and maintain a successful Centre of Excellence.

You will support the end-to-end process for assessing, monitoring, and validating suppliers’ disaster recovery (DR) capabilities, ensuring alignment with corporate resilience standards, internal risk frameworks, and applicable regulatory expectations.

Key responsibilities include:

• Providing oversight and support to business units for the identification, mitigation, and remediation of third-party disaster recovery risks.
• Conducting third-party disaster readiness due diligence and ongoing risk assessments for new, existing, and renewed contracts.
• Identifying and escalating material risks, unresponsiveness, delayed service level agreements (SLAs), and critical deficiencies to senior leadership.
• Supporting the evaluation of concentrated supplier risks and recommending strategies to mitigate single points of failure.
• Documenting end-to-end requirements for meeting new obligations in Third Party Disaster Recovery risk assessment, monitoring, and reporting.
• Looking for opportunities to automate processes, communication, and/or reporting.
• Partnering with Line of Business teams, IT Risk, BCM, Supplier Management Office, and SaaS Architecture to ensure comprehensive and accurate DR assessments.
• Acting as a subject matter expert to support supplier engagements, contract negotiations, and renewal discussions related to resilience and disaster recovery provisions.

Requirements:

• University/College Degree in a relevant or applicable field.
• 2-4 years of experience in performing risk assessment and related reporting and tracking.
• Experience with Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Management.
• Basic understanding of IT infrastructure and Third-Party Supplier Lifecycle.
• Ability to understand policies, standards, and related regulatory requirements.
• Ability to work independently or within team structures.

Nice to have:

• Working with financial institutions or a similar large organization.
• Software/system implementation experience for SaaS/cloud solutions.
• Some knowledge or experience with MSA/contractual agreements.

Benefits:

• Comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits.
• Competitive compensation.
• Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities.
• Ability to make a difference and lasting impact.
• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team.