Senior Operational Resilience & Continuity Lead

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

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