VP, Resilience Strategy & Testing

Barclays; Whippany (NJ); Sur place; USD 150 000 - 200 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Barclays in Whippany, NJ, is seeking a VP, Resilience Governance and Testing Lead to develop, implement and sustain a robust resilience strategy and an Operational Recovery Planning and Incident Management framework aligned to industry best practices and regulatory expectations.

The role focuses on planning and executing resilience exercises, improving Business Response, Workforce resilience, and FMI recovery, while identifying vulnerabilities and driving continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Program management expertise with the ability to create board-level deliverables
• Ample risk management capability and experience in regulatory engagement
• Ability to engage externally and apply a considerable business lens to resilience activities

Responsabilités

• Socialisation and implementation of the resilience strategy and underpinning framework across the firm (e.g. SMRs and delegates, business / function resilience role owners and all colleagues), ensuring complaince to the standard and controls.
• Development and enhancement of the resilience, crisis and incident management framework to uplift recovery and response capabilities to ensure Important Business Services can continue to operate during disruption events to minimise the impact on customers, clients and the market.
• Operational Recovery Planning and Security Incident Management planning standards and controls enhancement according to industry practice, emerging threats and regulatory requirements.
• Provide oversight to the business and technology recovery capability improvements, and uplifts to third-party (suppliers and Financial Market Infrastructure) recovery capabilities to enable Important Business Services to remain within or mitigate impact tolerance thresholds.
• Communication of the firm’s / business’ resilience position (risks and remediation) through clear and transparent scorecards / dashboards to enable effective investment decisions to the Board and Executive Committees, Control Forums and business stakeholders.
• Enhancement of resilience, crisis management and incident response and recovery capability through sophisticated, regular and adequate testing coverage to demonstrate Important Business Services’ ability to recover within impact tolerance for a severe but plausible scenario.
• Assurance that services and products are built resiliently by the business through the change management process (NAPAs, DRAs, material change process).
• Continually remain abreast of resilience and crisis and incident management developments, regulatory policy requirements and the emerging landscape.
• Mitigation of the impact of unexpected incidents by identifying , responding to and enabling the resolution of events that threaten the services, operations, infrastructure, colleagues and clients of the bank.
• Execution of responses to reported incidents and potential threats from various channels including intelligence, email, phone and monitoring systems prioritised by the assessed or actual impact to the bank.
• Documentation and analysis of past prioritised incident details, the steps to resolution and the lessons learnt to support the identification and implementation of preventative measures and process improvements.

Connaissances

Program management

Risk management

Regulatory engagement

Stakeholder management

Executive presence

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Resilience exercises

Crisis management

Description du poste

Barclays in Whippany, NJ, is seeking a VP, Resilience Governance and Testing Lead to develop, implement and sustain a robust resilience strategy and an Operational Recovery Planning and Incident Management framework aligned to industry best practices and regulatory expectations.

The role focuses on planning and executing resilience exercises, improving Business Response, Workforce resilience, and FMI recovery, while identifying vulnerabilities and driving continuous improvement.