Senior Enterprise Risk Analyst (Business Continuity Management)

tabby; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Tabby is seeking a role focused on business continuity and operational resilience to support UAE entities. The role involves analyzing impacts, identifying critical operations, and developing recovery plans.

You will coordinate exercises, maintain resilience policies, and liaise with internal audit and regulators to ensure readiness and compliance. The successful candidate will have 2–4 years in related roles within financial services or fintech, with strong communication and stakeholder

Qualifications

• 2-4 years' experience in business continuity, operational resilience, operational risk or a related role within Financial Services, FinTech, Payments or another regulated environment.
• Practical working knowledge of business continuity and resilience concepts and testing with pragmatic application.
• Awareness of regulatory expectations for operational resilience; familiarity with CBUAE requirements or equivalent regimes is a plus.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills and ability to lead workshops with department heads.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, including reports and presentations.

Responsibilities

• Support and independently deliver key elements of the business continuity and operational resilience programme across UAE entities.
• Run business impact analysis cycles and consolidate what each team does and recovery timelines.
• Identify critical operations and set impact tolerances with first-line owners and senior management.
• Develop and maintain continuity plans, dependency maps and crisis playbooks.
• Coordinate exercises and document outcomes, lessons learned and follow-up actions.
• Maintain policies, standards and methodologies; contribute to resilience reporting for risk committees and regulator.
• Support third-party and technology dependency work affecting resilience of critical operations.
• Provide practical support on analysis, recovery objectives, continuity planning and remediation actions.
• Act as contact for internal audit and support reviews related to business continuity.

Skills

Business continuity

Operational resilience

Regulatory awareness

Stakeholder engagement

Clear communication

Tools

GRC tools

Job description

About the Role

The role supports and independently delivers key elements of the business continuity and operational resilience programme across Tabby s UAE entities helping the business understand which services must keep running how long they can be disrupted before customers are harmed and whether the firm could recover within that time. The role works closely with first-line owners across the business and supports the firm s response to regulatory expectations on operational resilience.

• Support the delivery of the business continuity and operational resilience programme across both UAE entities in line with Central Bank of the UAE CBUAE expectations and the Group risk framework
• Run the business impact analysis cycle with departments gathering challenging and consolidating what each team does what breaks if it stops and how quickly
• Support the identification of critical operations and the setting of impact tolerances working with first-line owners and senior management
• Develop and maintain business continuity and recovery plans dependency mapping and crisis playbooks keeping them current practical and usable
• Coordinate and support the exercise and testing programme including tabletop exercises and document outcomes lessons learned and follow-up actions
• Support the maintenance and continuous improvement of business continuity and operational resilience policies standards and methodologies
• Contribute to resilience reporting for senior management risk committees and the regulator including maturity and self-assessment positions
• Support third-party and technology dependency work where it affects the resilience of critical operations
• Provide practical support to first-line owners on business impact analyses recovery objectives continuity planning and remediation actions
• Act as a point of contact for internal audit and support regulatory or external reviews relating to business continuity and operational resilience
• Support ERM governance and tooling including use and administration of GRC tools maintenance of documentation committee materials action trackers and audit-ready evidence

• 2 4 years' experience in business continuity, operational resilience, operational risk or a related role within Financial Services, FinTech, Payments or another regulated environment.
• Practical working knowledge of business continuity and resilience concepts business impact analysis, recovery objectives, continuity planning and testing with the ability to apply them pragmatically.
• Awareness of regulatory expectations for operational resilience; familiarity with CBUAE requirements or an equivalent regime is an advantage.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills, with the confidence to run workshops and interviews with department heads and to challenge the answers constructively.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including experience preparing clear plans, reports and presentations.