Business Continuity Consultant recruitment
The Business Continuity Consultant will need to assist the Business Continuity Management (BCM) Team with a number of activities, including:
- Developing and documenting our BCM capability to auditable standards, and in alignment with, the COSO risk management framework and recognised BCM standards.
- Developing and implementing our business continuity, physical security and health safety (Corporate Security) critical suppliers due diligence processes
- Working with business areas to improve and update BIAs and BCPs
- Supporting BCM exercises where required
The successful candidate must have:
- Experience working in a Business Continuity Management team of a large organisation
- Recent and practical experience of business continuity and risk framework audits
- Recent and practical experience of developing supplier assessments and conducting evaluations of business continuity capabilities
- Practical working experience of conducting Business Impact Analysis and developing Business Continuity Plans
- Practical working experience of conducting business continuity exercises, including incident response
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- The ability to develop simple processes and documentation from complex and multiple sources
Desirable Skills:
- First-hand experience of BS 25999 gained in an organisation that had achieved or was working towards alignment to the standard
- Advanced Excel knowledge, including creating macros, and a good working knowledge of Word and PowerPoint
- Membership to the Business Continuity Institute or equivalent
Visa Europe is a membership association - an organisation owned and operated by its 4,500 European member banks. In October 2007, Visa Europe became independent of the new global Visa Inc., with an exclusive, irrevocable and perpetual licence in Europe. As a dedicated European payment system it is able to respond quickly to the specific market needs of European banks and their customers – cardholders and retailers, and to meet the European Commission’s objective to create a true internal market for payments. Visa enjoys unsurpassed acceptance around the world. In addition, Visa/Plus is one of the world’s largest global ATM networks, offering cash access in local currency in over 170 countries.