Location: US, GA, Atlanta
Company: Ameris Bank
Responsible for supporting critical business operations and assisting in sustaining and improving the business continuity program to expand resiliency and safeguard the company’s brand and reputation. Also supports planning for, testing, and responding to actual incidents or emergencies. Serves as the first line of protection against business disruption where continuity plans and/or technology recovery plans need to be executed. Aids in predicting outages and disruptions in the bank to help maneuver against them by analyzing collected data from lines of business and formulating a business impact analysis. This is a management and execution role to work closely with critical business units to understand their processes, identify risks, and provide solutions to help manage and minimize continuity risks to their processes. Performs other projects and duties as assigned.
Job role:
- Manage and maintain the recovery plan data for the enterprise, including, but not limited to, emergency contacts, processes, and business impact analyses.
- Develop, implement, and test disaster recovery procedures and plans, and maintain documentation as supporting evidence.
- Review and analyze business impacts for each business unit, tracking status and risks.
- Coordinate tabletop exercises and line of business meetings around continuity planning, and report findings to the board of directors at least annually.
- Review systems and applications, and document business continuity tier levels and testing strategies for such.
- Respond to emergencies and data losses, mitigate incidents, and plan to avoid them in the future, working closely with the incident management team across the bank.
- This role will require on-call, after-hours response for emergency issues.
- Manage and maintain the emergency alert notification system.