BCP Head

Business Continuity Planning (BCP) – Banking Sector

The ideal candidate for this role should possess the expertise and drive towards the BCP function. The incumbent will be responsible for supporting the embedding of Business Continuity Planning (BCP) into the organisation's culture, maintaining and enhancing the BCP framework, and ensuring both planned and unplanned BCP testing is conducted as per schedule.

Job Role

• Assist in embedding BCP into the organisational culture.
• Support the maintenance, testing, and continuous improvement of the BCP framework.
• Have strong understanding of RTO and RPO processes
• Ensure timely execution of BCP testing (planned and unplanned).
• Review and ensure Business Impact Analysis for all departments of the Bank.
• Independently assess the dependency on systems and vendors for critical processes.
• Follow up and obtain BCP documentation from all material vendors and those supporting critical processes.
• Assist in implementing BCP across various Bank departments.
• Conduct periodic reviews of BCP documentation to minimise risk and ensure business continuity.
• Track major incidents and act as a key liaison during incident response and recovery efforts.
• Prepare presentations for the BCM Committee, assist in coordination with stakeholders, and ensure execution of committee actionable within stipulated timeframes.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and timelines.
• Assist/handle various audits including Regulatory, Statutory, and Internal Audits.
• Drive automation initiatives within the BCP function.
• Various BCP related processes for different scenarios like continuity in outage situations like , infrastructure outage, site outage, network outage etc

Job Requirements

• Relevant experience in BCP and ability to work with cross-functional and business teams.
• Experience of 10 to 14 years
• MBA / Chartered Accountant (CA)/ other post graduate qualification preferred.
• Strong automation mindset with proficiency in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Excellent communication, coordination, analytical, and project management skills.
• Effective oral and written communication abilities.
• Sound logical reasoning capabilities.
• Motivated and detail-oriented team player with initiative for self-learning and development.

Personality Traits

• Good communication skills
• Analytical skills
• Usage of excel
• Independent thinking