Business Continuity Management - Senior

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EY-Digital Risk – Business Continuity Management – Senior

As part of our Digital Risk Consulting, you will be a key member of the Digital Risk Team, delivering client engagements in Business Continuity Management and IT Disaster Recovery across various industries in the MENA region. This role involves working with diverse clients and collaborating with other consulting service teams.

The opportunity

We’re looking for Senior Consultant with expertise in Business Continuity Management (BCM) framework and IT Disaster Recovery (IT DR) implementation to join our international network of professionals helping our clients transform risk functions and implement solutions in building resilience. This is a unique opportunity for you to bring both functional and technical knowledge, including gaining experience pursuing and leading a wide array of projects. In addition, you will have the ability to develop and foster client relationships at senior levels of an organization, critical to our account centric approach and your personal growth. This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of a leading firm whilst being instrumental in the growth of a new service offering.

Your key responsibilities

• Understand the client environment
• Build a BCMS framework that will best fit to the client’s continuity requirement
• Perform Business Impact Analysis (BIA) and Risk Assessment (RA)
• Driving management discussion to understand critical process, associate continuity risk
• Providing guidance to IT Management of the organization to enhance the disaster recovery capability
• Develop continuity strategy for the critical business process post considering all requirements
• Build necessary plans and procedures that would be required for the organisation for successful resumption and recovery
• Perform exercises and testing to identify those gaps and additional control to ensure continuity of critical business process.
• Should be able to provide necessary guidance to client in improving the maturity of continuity landscape
• Need to analyse the leading practice around the globe related to resilience add value to clients
• Develop new services and solutions that EY could consider for client and market penetrations
• Enable the leadership on go to market and sales activities

Skills and attributes for success

• Good understanding of ISO 22301
• Experiencing in drafting BC Policy and building governance framework
• Have performed Business Impact Analysis and Risk Assessment
• Developed continuity strategy and necessary plans
• Conducted different kinds of continuity exercises and tests
• Should be able to drive top management meetings
• Ability to do research on resilience independently and as a team
• Mentor and guide the team
• Ability to conduct training for audience ranging from end user to top management
• Manage project and ensure quality of deliverables
• Able to conduct continuity review and audits
• Must have flair in understanding new technologies
• project management skills, inspiring teamwork and responsibility with engagement team members

To qualify for the role, you must have

• A bachelor's or master's degree
• A minimum of 4-10 years of experience in Business Continuity / Resilience, IT Disaster Recovery.
• Excellent communication skills with consulting experience preferred
• A valid passport for travel.

Ideally, you’ll also have

• MBA/ /B Tech /B Sc (any stream)
• CBCI, CBCP, ISO 22301 LA/LI and ISO 27001 LA/LI certified

What working at EY offers
At EY, we’re dedicated to helping our clients, from startups to Fortune 500 companies — and the work we do with them is as varied as they are.
You get to work with inspiring and meaningful projects. Our focus is education and coaching alongside practical experience to ensure your personal development. We value our employees, and you will be able to control your own development with an individual progression plan. You will quickly grow into a responsible role with challenging and stimulating assignments. Moreover, you will be part of an interdisciplinary environment that emphasizes high quality and knowledge exchange. Plus, we offer:

• Support, coaching and feedback from some of the most engaging colleagues around
• Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career
• The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that’s right for you

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