• Job Description

  Req#: 25021483

  Job Description:

  At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

  Being a Great Place to Work is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. This includes our commitment to being an inclusive workplace, attracting and developing exceptional talent, supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness, recognizing and rewarding performance, and how we make an impact in the communities we serve.

  Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture with specific requirements for office-based attendance and which allows for an appropriate level of flexibility for our teammates and businesses based on role-specific considerations.

  At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact.

  Join us!

  Job Description:
  This job is responsible for consulting on corporate business continuity topics with clients. Key responsibilities include recommending and implementing solutions that protect the bank's assets and participating or leading business continuity initiatives and ongoing process activities (i.e., scenario analysis, plan development, testing, event management, and progress reporting/measurement). Job expectations include providing subject matter consulting support in audit and regulatory matters as needed.

  The Enterprise Resilience Exercise Planner is responsible for strengthening the Bank's resiliency capabilities by planning, conducting and evaluating exercises. Provides consulting on overall global business continuity management, crisis management, service and operational resiliency, and global resolution and recovery planning. Surfaces issues affecting resiliency and ensures resolution. Facilitates cross-functional activities and discussion groups to strategize stressing and evaluating effectiveness of plans and teams. Extensively collaborates with all domestic and regional partners. Works with design teams to facilitate and execute the scope and deliverables, especially any MRA-related initiatives.

  Exercises are used to stress and evaluate related plans and playbooks created by the Front Line Units and Control Functions to discover areas of opportunity and ensure appropriate execution in times of crisis. Through exercises, Front Line Units and Control Functions are able to increase their plan and execution maturity. The Exercise Planner will play a key role in effectively planning, designing, scheduling, and managing enterprise exercises in relation to enterprise stress scenarios (financial and non-financial). This role will need a firm understanding of rules and regulations that govern business continuity, operational resilience, as well as global recovery and resolution, to enable effective planning and execution. Works with project teams to improve operational resiliency.

  Responsibilities:

  • Conducts current-state risk-based assessments to develop business continuity management strategies and monitors the effectiveness following the implementation of the plan
  • Evaluates the performance of plans, processes, and programs at assigned organizational level, while assessing progress towards identified objectives
  • Implements, monitors, and modifies procedures for the effective response to incidents and the continuance of critical business services, based on testing and exercises of plans or actual events
  • Supports testing of business continuity plans to assess readiness, identify deficiencies, and promote enhancements
  • Identifies, validates, and escalates gaps in business continuity readiness to senior management and second line partners
  • Create executive-level presentations to review scenarios and objectives with executive stakeholders
  • Plan, design, develop, and conduct exercises; manage observations from exercises to closure
  • Consult on operational resilience, business continuity, and/or recovery and resolution topics to lines of business
  • Facilitate exercise planning and coordination
  • Participate in projects and improvements as identified
  • Conducts current-state risk-based assessments to develop business continuity management strategies and monitors the effectiveness following the implementation of the plan
  • Evaluates the performance of plans, processes, and programs at assigned organizational level, while assessing progress towards identified objectives
  • Implements, monitors, and modifies procedures for the effective response to incidents and the continuance of critical business services, based on testing and exercises of plans or actual events
  • Supports testing of business continuity plans to assess readiness, identify deficiencies, and promote enhancements
  • Identifies, validates, and escalates gaps in business continuity readiness to senior management and second line partners

  Skills:

  • Active Listening
  • Adaptability
  • Attention to Detail
  • Critical Thinking
  • Data Collection and Entry
  • Collaboration
  • Continuous Improvement
  • Issue Management
  • Record Keeping
  • Strong Written and Verbal Communications
  • Business Continuity Management
  • Data Management
  • Data and Trend Analysis
  • Policies, Procedures, and Guidelines Management
  • Process Simplification

  Required Skills:

  • 3-5 years of experience in banking or finance
  • Strong organizational, planning, communication (written and verbal), and presentation skills with strong attention to detail
  • Self-starter with the ability to influence, build trusted relationships
  • Deal constructively with conflict, problem solve / troubleshoot issues for themselves and others
  • Adapt to a fast-paced environment involving multiple and simultaneous deliverables
  • Strong MS Excel and PowerPoint skills
  • Bank of America enterprise knowledge is important

  Desired Skills:

  • Degree in Emergency Response/Crisis Management/Business Continuity; Business Continuity Certification (BCI or DRII certification), or equivalent in experience.
  • Prior response and/or exercise management and facilitation experience
  • Prior project management experience
  • Consulting experience helpful

  Shift:

  1st shift (United States of America)

  Hours Per Week:

  40

  Pay Transparency details

  US - NJ - Pennington - 1400 American Blvd - Princeton Place At Hopewell Bldg. 4 (NJ2140), US - NY - New York - 1133 Ave Of The Americas - 1133 Ave Of The Americas (NY1533)

  Pay and benefits information

  Pay range

  $80,700.00 - $121,800.00 annualized salary, offers to be determined based on experience, education and skill set.

  Discretionary incentive eligible

  This role is eligible to participate in the annual discretionary plan. Employees are eligible for an annual discretionary award based on their overall individual performance results and behaviors, the performance and contributions of their line of business and/or group; and the overall success of the Company.

  Benefits

  This role is currently benefits eligible. We provide industry-leading benefits, access to paid time off, resources and support to our employees so they can make a genuine impact and contribute to the sustainable growth of our business and the communities we serve.

• About the company

  Bank of America is one of the world's largest financial institutions, serving individuals, small- and middle-market businesses and large corporations with a full range of banking, investing, asset management and other financial and risk management products and services.

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