Description
We are seeking a Senior Business Resilience Analyst to join our Risk Management team in the Office of the General Counsel. The successful candidate will play a key role in helping the firm prevent, adapt to, respond to, recover from and learn from business disruptions and other unexpected events.
The Senior Business Resilience Analyst will support the development, implementation, ongoing maintenance and periodic testing of an operational resilience framework. This will involve working collaboratively with stakeholders across the legal practice and Business Team to provide insight into the firm’s risk profile and vulnerabilities, identify critical business activities, and map people, processes, technology, facilities and third parties that could disrupt work on client matters or business operations.
Key responsibilities include:
- Supporting the development, implementation and maintenance of an operational resilience framework, policies, standards and procedures
- Conducting business impact analyses to identify important services and functions, including their owners, delivery processes, required resources, potential impact if disrupted and impact tolerances
- Carrying out resilience gap assessments to identify vulnerabilities, single points of failure, concentration risks and weaknesses in existing business processes
- Supporting the development and maintenance of incident response, crisis management, business continuity and similar capabilities and plans
- Coordinating and supporting tabletop exercises and scenario testing to assess the firm’s ability to respond to severe but plausible events
- Preparing relevant information, dashboards, reports etc. to support management and other stakeholder reporting
- Monitoring emerging risks, internal and external changes and lessons from external events to ensure the overall operational resilience framework remains relevant and effective
The ideal candidate will have:
- Five or more years’ experience in crisis management, business continuity management, resilience or a related discipline
- Excellent organisation skills and attention to detail
- Advanced analytical skills, with the ability to assess complex dependencies and identify potential vulnerabilities
- Effective problem solving skills and confidence to challenge assumptions and recommend practical improvements
- Strong interpersonal skills and an ability to communicate effectively with the partnership, senior management, client representatives and regulators
- Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint and experience of business continuity management software, incident management platforms and other specialist tools