Head of Operational Readiness & Business Execution

BNY Mellon; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

BNY Mellon is seeking a Director of Business Execution in New York to lead cross‑functional efforts across business management, resiliency, governance, and regulatory priorities. You will align enterprise requirements with practical execution and strengthen management routines for accountability.

You will oversee preparedness, risk and compliance workstreams, coordinating governance and entity governance obligations while embedding sustainable practices and transparent reporting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience required; advanced degree preferred.
• Experience in financial services, business execution, risk, controls, resiliency, governance, regulatory execution, or related discipline.
• Strong understanding of large financial institution operating environments, including interaction of business, technology, operations, risk, compliance, and governance.
• Experience leading or supporting business continuity, disaster recovery, or operational readiness activities.
• Experience managing issues, remediation programs, audit responses, or control-related governance processes.
• Understanding of regulatory expectations and governance practices relevant to complex global financial institutions.
• Hands-on experience with AI platforms; ability to structure context, prompts and workflows.
• Ability to translate enterprise requirements into practical, business-aligned execution plans.

Responsibilities

• Lead development, implementation, testing, and maintenance of business continuity and disaster recovery plans.
• Coordinate preparedness and response activities for disruptions to support timely recovery of critical services.
• Oversee readiness activities including business impact assessments, continuity planning, recovery planning, and post-event lessons learned.
• Partner across business, partners, and control teams to ensure operational readiness and alignment of response and recovery capabilities.
• Lead or coordinate testing of resiliency and recovery capabilities; include tabletop exercises and scenario testing.
• Track testing and event outcomes, identify gaps, drive remediation actions to strengthen preparedness.
• Promote a culture of readiness, accountability, and disciplined execution across the function.
• Design change plans with stakeholder engagement, communications, and trainings for governance forums.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Communication

Problem solving

Presentation skills

Education

Bachelor's degree

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

AI platforms

Job description

BNY Mellon is seeking a Director of Business Execution in New York to lead cross‑functional efforts across business management, resiliency, governance, and regulatory priorities. You will align enterprise requirements with practical execution and strengthen management routines for accountability.

You will oversee preparedness, risk and compliance workstreams, coordinating governance and entity governance obligations while embedding sustainable practices and transparent reporting.