AVP, Business Continuity Officer

GENERAL SUMMARY

The AVP, Business Continuity Officer is responsible for developing, maintaining, testing, and improving the organization's business continuity and disaster recovery capabilities. This mid-level role focuses on operational execution, stakeholder coordination, and program maturity rather than strategy ownership.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Business Continuity Planning

• Facilitate businesses to update and maintain Business Continuity Plans (BCPs) for departments, processes, and critical services.
• Facilitate Business Impact Analyses (BIAs) and risk assessments with business owners.
• Facilitate businesses to identify critical processes, recovery time objectives (RTOs), recovery point objectives (RPOs), and dependencies.
• Maintain continuity documentation in accordance with organizational standards.
• Participate in the BCM strategic roadmap development and annual program plan at an executive level.

Exercises & Testing

• Plan, execute, and document BC/DR exercises (tabletop, functional, and scenario-based).
• Coordinate with IT, facilities, HR, security, and third-party vendors during testing.
• Track issues, corrective actions, and improvement plans resulting from exercises.

Incident & Crisis Support

• Support incident response and crisis management activities during disruptions.
• Provide guidance to business units on plan activation and recovery procedures.
• Participate in post-incident reviews and lessons-learned activities.

Program Maintenance & Improvement

• Participate in the development and maintenance of enterprise BCM policies, standards, and procedures; ensure alignment with regulatory expectations and external audits.
• Support audits, assessments, and regulatory examinations related to business continuity.
• Improve BC program maturity, metrics, and reporting.
• Maintain inventories of critical services, applications, vendors, and resources.
• Develop and maintain executive-facing dashboards, KRIs, and metrics that demonstrate program maturity and risk reduction.

Training & Awareness

• Deliver business continuity training and awareness sessions for staff and plan owners.
• Coach business units on continuity best practices and plan ownership.

Vendor & Third-Party Resilience

• Perform third-party risk and vendor continuity assessments.
• Review vendor BCP documentation and recovery capabilities.

QUALIFICATIONS

Education

• Bachelor's degree (required) in Business administration, information systems, risk management or related field. Commensurate experience considered.
• Certifications CBCP or ABCP (strongly valued).

Experience

• 3 - 5 years' experience required in Business Continuity Management.

Skills/Ability

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to facilitate meetings and effectively lead discussions.
• Ability to build and maintain effective working relationships with all levels of management and staff.
• High level of professionalism, commitment, and integrity.
• Commitment to growing and enhancing skills and knowledge.
• Occasional travel to and from other work locations may be required.
• Must have a high degree of business acumen, good project management and organizational skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to interface with business unit leaders, auditors, regulators, and third-party vendor representatives.
• Proven ability to work autonomously and in an efficient manner with minimal supervision.
• Strong team player with ability to influence opinions without having direct authority.
• Specific application skills include strong proficiency in Word and PowerPoint.

OTHER DETAILS

$100K - $120K / year
Pay determined based on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location.
This position may be eligible for a discretionary bonus.

Cathay Bank offers its full-time employees a competitive benefits package which is a significant part of their total compensation. It is our goal to provide employees with a comprehensive benefits package to fit their needs which includes, coverage for medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, life insurance, long-term disability insurance, and flexible spending accounts (FSAs), health saving account (HSA) with company contributions, voluntary coverages, and 401(k).

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