Business Continuity & Crisis Manager

Tekskills Inc.; Chennai; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Tekskills Inc. in Chennai, India, is seeking a professional to lead disaster recovery and business continuity initiatives for critical assets including data centers.

You will develop and test recovery strategies, review existing plans, and ensure regulatory compliance to minimize interruption risks. The role involves creating emergency management plans, establishing effective communication during disasters, and producing reports with testing results and improvement recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Develop disaster recovery plans for critical assets such as data centers.
• Develop contingency plans to deal with organizational emergencies.
• Test documented disaster recovery strategies and plans.
• Assess risks to business operations and information systems to identify recovery requirements.
• Develop emergency management plans for recovery decision making and communications.
• Review existing disaster recovery, crisis management, or business continuity plans.
• Establish, maintain, or test communication call trees for disaster scenarios.
• Interpret government regulations and applicable codes to ensure compliance.
• Write reports summarizing testing activities, goals, planning, execution, results, and recommendations.
• Prepare research reports and identify opportunities for strategic improvement or mitigation of business interruption.

Job description

Job Description:

• Develop disaster recovery plans for physical locations with critical assets such as data centers.
• Develop contingency plans to deal with organizational emergencies.
• Test documented disaster recovery strategies and plans.
• Analyze impact on, and risk to, essential business functions or information systems to identify acceptable recovery time periods and resource requirements.
• Assess risks to business operations.
• Develop emergency management plans for recovery decision making and communications, continuity of critical departmental processes, or temporary shut-down of non-critical departments to ensure continuity of operation and governance.
• Develop contingency plans to deal with organizational emergencies.
• Review existing disaster recovery, crisis management, or business continuity plans.
• Develop contingency plans to deal with organizational emergencies.
• Establish, maintain, or test call trees to ensure appropriate communication during disaster.
• Interpret government regulations and applicable codes to ensure compliance.
• Evaluate applicable laws and regulations to determine impact on organizational activities.
• Conduct or oversee contingency plan integration and operation.
• Develop contingency plans to deal with organizational emergencies.
• Write reports to summarize testing activities, including descriptions of goals, planning, scheduling, execution, results, analysis, conclusions, and recommendations.
• Prepare research reports.
• Identify opportunities for strategic improvement or mitigation of business interruption and other risks caused by business, regulatory, or industry-specific change initiatives.
• Identify strategic business investment opportunities.
• Create business continuity and disaster recovery budgets.
• Analyze budgetary or accounting data.
• Create or administer training and awareness presentations or materials.
• Develop training materials.
• Train personnel in organizational or compliance procedures.
• Maintain and update organization information technology applications and network systems blueprints.
• Maintain data in information systems or databases.
• Conduct or oversee collection of corporate intelligence to avoid fraud, financial crime, cyber-attack, terrorism, and infrastructure failure.
• Gather organizational performance information.
• Oversee business processes.
• Recommend or implement methods to monitor, evaluate, or enable resolution of safety, operations, or compliance interruptions.
• Monitor organizational compliance with regulations.
• Advise others on analytical techniques.
• Analyze corporate intelligence data to identify trends, patterns, or warnings indicating threats to security of people, assets, information, or infrastructure.
• Assess risks to business operations.
• Analyze business or financial data.
• Design or implement products and services to mitigate risk or facilitate use of technology-based tools and methods.
• Develop business or financial information systems.
• Prepare reports summarizing operational results, financial performance, or accomplishments of specified objectives, goals, or plans.
• Prepare operational reports.
• Create scenarios to re-establish operations from various types of business disruptions.
• Apply mathematical models of financial or business conditions.
• Attend professional meetings, read literature, and participate in training or other educational offerings to keep abreast of new developments and technologies related to disaster recovery and business continuity.
• Update professional knowledge.
• Identify individual or transaction targets to direct intelligence collection.
• Investigate legal issues.