morgan 87 Business Continuity and Resilience Coordinator

Business Continuity and Resilience Coordinator

Morgan Stanley

The U.S. Banks maintain a Business Continuity Management (BCM) program to protect the Banks’ franchise in the event of a catastrophic interruption to its business operations, technology, and facilities. The Banks’ BCM philosophy is to provide cost-effective business continuity strategies for our critical businesses, employees, clients, and shareholders.

Department Profile

Morgan Stanley is a global financial services firm that conducts its business through three principal business segments— Institutional Securities, Wealth Management, and Asset Management. The Vice President position is with Morgan Stanley Bank, NA and Morgan Stanley Private Bank, National Association (US Banks) on the U.S. Banks’ Business Continuity and Resilience Team.

The BCM team ensures that critical businesses and functions within the Banks are adequately prepared to respond to business disruptions.

Primary Responsibilities

The position of Business Continuity and Resilience Coordinator is responsible for the development of advance arrangements and procedures to ensure the organization can recover its most critical functions and customer services within stated Recovery Time Objectives, incurring the minimum amount of loss possible. Responsibilities include crisis management, coordinating the design, development, maintenance, and testing (validation) of the overall recovery plans for all critical functional areas of the Banks.

Responsibilities Include But Are Not Limited To

  • Provide support in coordinating, assessing, developing, and communicating contingency plans associated with the Banks’ Business Units to protect the firm in the event of a business disruption
  • Interact with critical business units and support groups for the purpose of planning, directing, and controlling contingency planning efforts while facilitating their plan development
  • Maintain direct communications and participate in appropriate business unit planning meetings and activities
  • Assist the department in enhancing, formalizing, and standardizing the business planning process
  • Coordinate periodic reviews and tests of established plans and procedures, reporting findings to management and making recommendations for improvements as needed
  • Provide expertise and support to management and business functional areas, as requested
  • Perform ongoing risk analysis to determine which business processes, systems, and applications need to be recovered within the indicated time frame to comply with corporate and regulatory recovery time objectives of the organization
  • Oversee implementation of the global crisis management program, processes, and procedures
  • Provide support during response to regional and global crisis events and coordinate engagement and response of crisis managers
  • Assist with risk assessments and due diligence efforts pertaining to critical suppliers and 3rd party vendors
  • Develop and enhance Key Business Service model
  • Bachelor’s Degree
  • Significant experience in business continuity, crisis management or related field
  • Strong organizational and decision-making skills
  • Must be able to interface and coordinate work efficiently and effectively with business partners
  • Good communication and influencing skills, including ability to articulate complex issues and incorporate feedback
  • Client/Coverage experience in the Financial Services industry or management consultancy
  • Fusion Risk Management experience a plus

Expected base pay rates for the role will be between 150000 and 190000 per year at the commencement of employment. However, base pay if hired will be determined on an individualized basis and is only part of the total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may also include commission earnings, incentive compensation, discretionary bonuses, other short and long-term incentive packages, and other Morgan Stanley sponsored benefit programs.

Posting Date

Jan 20, 2023

Primary Location

Americas-United States of America-New York-New York

Education Level

Bachelor’s Degree

Job

Other

Employment Type

Full Time

Job Level

Vice President

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