Business Continuity Analyst - Société Générale

Business Continuity Analyst

•To provide support to business lines to ensure that their business continuity requirements are articulated and that these requirements are translated into effective business continuity solutions and processes
•The BCM team is responsible for ensuring that SGLB has in place adequate and regulatory compliant business continuity plans to resume its essential business functions quickly and effectively in the event of a major disruption

Main responsibilities
Business & regulatory requirements analysis
-Define and maintain up to date recovery requirements with the business units: Business Impact Analysis, Risk Assessment
-Define and maintain SGLB Crisis Management structure and arrange training of crisis management principals where required
-Attend to forums, think-tank groups and Business Continuity events in order to ensure SGLB plans are compliant with regulatory changes, sector innovation, industry best practice and standards mapping.
-Demographic studies of business unit staffing.

-Testing & Rehearsals
-Desktop testing of BC plans
-Coordinate tests at the DR site
-Coordinate cross back up tests
Production of all test outputs
-Help with design of test / crisis exercises

Maintenance
-Maintain SG BCM standards compliant with the current legal and regulatory requirement,
-Provide support to B/Us representatives in deployment and maintenance of plans and cascade,
-Ensure that status and contact details of employees involved in the Business Unit recovery are up-to-date,
-Administrate BCM tools,
-Maintain inventory of the DR equipment (IT, B/Us battle boxes…) stored in-house or off-site in liaison with ITEC or any third parties where required (i.e. DR site provider),
-Maintain membership to various BC associations

Projects
-To seek opportunities to improve, enhance or innovate BC or Crisis Management procedures, processes and systems
-To undertake responsibility for the end to end delivery of allocated work streams

Level of authority
•Self-starter capable of undertaking assigned project tasks with minimal supervision
•Ability to develop relationship with business line and take responsibility for business continuity for business line as directed
Internal & external contacts
•IT BCP
•BCP representatives in business lines
•Paris Operational Risk Management Colleagues
•Business Lines
•Emergency services / local authorities / counterparties

Specific context
•Knowledge of regulatory requirements and principles of business continuity management
•Knowledge of Investment Bank products and processes
•Ability to work under stressful conditions (during crises etc.)
•Interpersonal skills to deal sensitively with staff at all levels in the organisation
•Ability to summarise and report complex matters in a clear and concise manner

Cite job reference number : SG604660


		Qualifications:		Bachelors
		Experience:		5 years +
		Languages:		French : Speak Well English : Speak / Write Fluently
		Job-Type:		open-ended
		Remuneration:		unspecified
		Permit Type:		EU National
		Region:		London

•Degree preferred
•fluent English
•French an advantage
•Management Skills in terms of managing internal clients
•Operational Skills
•Regulatory Skills
•Communication Skills
•Flexibility - Adaptability
•Ability to make Decisions
•Ability to Work Under Pressure
•Analytical Skills
vInitiative
•Leadership Qualities
•Teamwork
•Good inter-personal and presentation skills – to build awareness of solutions and facilities in the general employee population

The Corporate & Investment Bank is at the heart of Société Générale’s universal banking business model, a financial institution relying on solid fundamentals to accompany its clients in their development and support the economy across sectors and industries. SGCIB is a bank of reference for Euro Capital Markets, Derivative Products and Structured Finance.

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