VP of Business Continuity & Operational Resilience

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation; Singapore; On-site; SGD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation in Singapore seeks an experienced BCM/Operational Resilience professional to lead the regional program. You will drive BIA reviews, recovery objectives, and governance across APAC, ensuring plans stay current and compliant with regulatory expectations.

You will coordinate DR exercises, incident management, and cross-border scenario testing with IT, operations, and vendors while reporting risks to senior management and supporting governance forums.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Risk Management, Finance, IT, or related discipline.
• 8–12 years of experience in Business Continuity Management, Operational Resilience, Disaster Recovery or Crisis Management.
• Experience in banking, financial services, or other highly regulated industries preferred.
• Hands-on in DR exercises, crisis simulations, resilience testing, and recovery planning.
• Strong understanding of MAS BCM Guidelines, Operational Resilience, technology recovery and DR frameworks, and third-party resilience risk management.
• Professional certifications such as CBCP, MBCI, ISO 22301 Lead Implementer, DRI, CISSP or related certifications are advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and review Business Impact Analyses across functions.
• Challenge recovery objectives, strategies, and continuity plans.
• Ensure business continuity plans remain current, tested, and aligned to regulatory expectations.
• Monitor BCM program effectiveness and report risks and issues to management committees.
• Support implementation and maintenance of the Operational Resilience framework.
• Facilitate critical business service identification, impact tolerance assessments, and dependency mapping.
• Coordinate resilience self-assessments and remediation activities.
• Prepare management reporting for senior management forums.
• Lead the planning, coordination, execution, and post-exercise review of system recovery and resilience tests.
• Coordinate with Technology, Operations, vendors, and business stakeholders to ensure testing objectives are achieved.
• Assess recovery outcomes against RTO, RPO, and business recovery requirements.
• Produce exercise reports, lessons learned, and remediation plans.
• Track outstanding actions arising from resilience and recovery exercises.
• Act as Regional SME for BCM and Operational Resilience across APAC entities.
• Drive cross-border scenario exercises and regional resilience initiatives.
• Support major incident management and crisis response activities.
• Engage with audits and maintain awareness of regulatory BCM guidelines.

Skills

Business Continuity

Operational Resilience

Crisis Management

Regulatory Awareness

Stakeholder Management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business, Risk Management, Finance, IT or related discipline

CBCP

MBCI

ISO 22301 Lead Implementer

DRI

CISSP

Job description

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation in Singapore seeks an experienced BCM/Operational Resilience professional to lead the regional program. You will drive BIA reviews, recovery objectives, and governance across APAC, ensuring plans stay current and compliant with regulatory expectations.

You will coordinate DR exercises, incident management, and cross-border scenario testing with IT, operations, and vendors while reporting risks to senior management and supporting governance forums.