Director, Business Continuity Management and

2 weeks ago


Singapore Royal Bank of Canada Full time

**Job Summary**

This role is to support RBC Asia Pacific Business Continuity Management and Operational Resilience (APAC BCM & OpRes) Head in implementing and running BCM and OpRes programs in APAC region, with a focus in Malaysia and Singapore. This will include business continuity planning activities such as Business Impact Analysis, Business Continuity Plan Maintenance and Exercises Coordination, Execution and Reporting; as well as operational resilience planning activities such as Service Categorization, Harm Assessment, Dependency Mapping, Scenario Testing and Self-Assessment Reporting. This role will also act as the Secretary and Recovery Advisor to the Incident Management Teams. Additional geographical coverage and/or responsibilities may be assigned to this role as per business requirement.

Promote, support and provide business continuity, operational resilience and incident management expertise to all business and functional units within the assigned countries and other locations / businesses in the APAC region and serve as the single point of contact for these locations / businesses.

Support APAC BCM & OpRes program development and facilitate ongoing management and program enhancements including delivery of trainings, simulations and internal and external exercises. Provide additional support, as needed, in the development and ongoing management of the global business continuity, operational resilience and incident management programs.

Ensure that business continuity and operational resilience programs in the assigned locations meet global BCM and OpRes policies, standards, procedures and regulatory requirements and aligned to the business needs in the APAC region.
- Consult and manage BCM and OpRes activities in Malaysia and Singapore and other locations / businesses as assigned including:
In General:

- Ensure all BCM and OpRes activities and documentations complying with RBC Standards and Policy; coordinate reporting of compliance within the areas of responsibility.
- Partner with Regional / Local Executives to ensure the BCM & OpRes programs are aligned to the latest business requirements
- Develop regular BCM and OpRes reporting for Operating Committees of the assigned countries
- Develop and maintain an up-to-date knowledge of latest regulatory changes in the APAC region in relation to BCM and OpRes
- Support the “One RBC” culture by taking personal responsibility to encourage and facilitate cross-team collaboration in daily activities.
- Track self-identified, internal audit or regulatory review findings relative to the respective business lines, as they relate to BCM & OpRes assuring established timelines are met
- Identify potential areas to integrate the BCM and OpRes programs as much as possible to ensure a smooth and pragmatic implementation
- Travel regularly (~25%) to locations assigned to ensure the BCM and OpRes programs there are properly managed, updated and exercised.

BCM Activities:

- Conduct BCM program maintenance and review activities: Business Impact Analysis; BCP plan development, documentation and implementation including DR capabilities review and identify areas of emerging risk especially potential single point of failure; Test, validate and perform gap closure on all assigned business functions/units
- Develop and make sure Incident Management Team members are familiar with Incident Management Procedures
- Support the local business units with specialized software (BCPWeb, Riskonnect, Everbridge) and any request relating to BCM
- Provide expert advice in BCM: review and challenge any instances of undue risk-taking by business and functional executives in the identification of risks, the definition of risk tolerances, the selection of continuity tasks and strategies or the testing of continuity plans.
- Lead to create, coordinate and maintain a multi-discipline Incident Management Team to provide a resilient response for regional / business emergencies.
- Secretary to the Business Line(s) / Local Incident Management Teams, maintaining a working relationship/liaison with other Incident Management Teams including Regional IMT

OpRes Activities:

- Maintain the local OpRes program, including the ongoing review of Service Categorization, Harm Assessment, Dependency Mapping and Scenario Testing activities to demonstrate and report on the ability to operate consistently within agreed impact tolerances.
- Partner with the business to identify its critical and significant business services and ensure that these services and associated resource mapping and interdependent processes remain current and impact tolerances are regularly reviewed.
- Ensure operational resilience risks are identified and reported and working with wider business stakeholders develop the necessary plans to address these risks
- Develop and implement the operational resilience roadmap with local business - which ensures that the residual risk is reduced to or maintained at an acceptable level. Ma



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