Role Overview
We are working with a global investment firm looking for a Business Resilience Associate to join its Business Resilience and Crisis Management function. This role plays a key part in ensuring the firm is operationally prepared to respond to and recover from major disruptions, supporting Business Continuity Planning (BCP), Disaster Recovery (DR), and Crisis Management programmes across the organisation.
The role sits at the intersection of technology, operations, and governance, working closely with Technology leadership, infrastructure and application teams, investment teams, and business stakeholders globally. This is a hands-on role for someone equally comfortable contributing to resilience strategy and governance as they are coordinating live DR failovers, crisis simulations, and incident response activity.
Key Responsibilities
*Coordinate and execute annual end-to-end DR failover and failback exercises, including full-stack failovers between primary and secondary data centres.
*Own the full DR exercise lifecycle, including planning, scheduling, communications, live execution, issue tracking, and post-exercise reporting.
*Maintain and continuously enhance DR Orders of Operations, checkout documentation, and exercise dashboards.
*Own the firm-wide DR runbook programme
*Implement and enforce runbook certification and validation processes, including automated checks against CMDB and DNS.
*Produce executive-ready post-exercise and post-incident reports within agreed timelines.
*Support external audits by preparing and presenting BCP/DR evidence and documentation.
*Track remediation progress and report gap closure metrics to senior Technology leadership.
*Assist in assessing the firm’s resilience maturity against recognised frameworks (e.g. ISO 22301, DRII, BCI).
Required Experience
*5+ years’ experience in Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, IT Operations, or Technology Risk, ideally within financial services.
*Hands-on experience coordinating or participating in DR and BCP exercises, including failover and failback testing.
*Strong project management skills with the ability to manage multiple workstreams and drive issues through to resolution.
*Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with experience producing structured reports and governance documentation for senior stakeholders.
*Experience working with Business Continuity Management software platforms
Preferred Experience
*Experience within hedge funds, asset management, or complex financial services technology environments.
*Understanding of cloud-based and hybrid DR architectures.
*Experience working with external auditors (Big 4) on BCP and DR-related reviews.
*Exposure to global operational resilience regulations (e.g. FCA, SEC, MAS)