Location: US, IL, Chicago (Hybrid)
Company: Alliant
In this hybrid role based at Alliant’s Chicago headquarters, the Principal Business Continuity Specialist will serve as an advisor and leader to drive organizational resilience and lead the second line of defense oversight of the business continuity program (BCP). The role ensures that the BCP is aligned with industry best practices and regulatory requirements, including business impact analyses (BIA) and recovery plan development, critical business process testing, incident response, and 2nd line disaster recovery governance. The specialist serves as the primary on-call individual for incident response and leads on discussions during regulatory exams as they relate to the BCP and incident response.
Job role:
- Lead the development and continuous improvement of BIA and recovery plans, ensuring alignment with organizational priorities.
- Demonstrate judgment and critical thinking to business continuity tasks, challenging process tiering while balancing regulatory, financial, and reputational risks, and technology dependencies to support restoring operations.
- Evaluate and leverage internal recovery solutions and external vendor capabilities to ensure the resilience of critical business processes.
- Lead strategic initiatives to advance BCP maturity.
- Drive cross-functional alignment with the technology division to ensure alignment between disaster recovery and business continuity programs.
- Assist the technology team in the critical business process testing program, including test script development, test coordination, and reporting.
- Review and validate final technology reporting results from internal disaster recovery exercises, 3rd party vendors, and service providers.
- Lead incident response efforts, making critical decisions and guiding executive teams through complex scenarios.
- Partner with lines of business on incident response tabletop exercises involving the incident response and executive management teams.
- Deliver monthly metrics for executive management committee reporting tasks, such as preparing risk appetite scorecard metrics for the enterprise risk committee and monthly reporting to the BRGC.
- Represent the organization in business continuity-related regulatory and audit discussions, provide documentation and follow-ups at meetings, and promote program awareness through meetings, workshops, and exercises.
- Stay abreast of emerging business continuity industry standards and evolving regulatory expectations.