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Own and manage Varo’s Business Resiliency Program by developing, challenging, and maintaining enterprise-wide Business Resilience to include Disaster Recovery strategies and Business Continuity plans for all critical business processes through regular reviews with business leads. Liaise with key business, technology, infrastructure, and application teams to set Recovery Time Objectives and Recovery Point Objectives. Work with the Technology, Security, Incident Response Team, Disaster Recovery… Show more Own and manage Varo’s Business Resiliency Program by developing, challenging, and maintaining enterprise-wide Business Resilience to include Disaster Recovery strategies and Business Continuity plans for all critical business processes through regular reviews with business leads. Liaise with key business, technology, infrastructure, and application teams to set Recovery Time Objectives and Recovery Point Objectives. Work with the Technology, Security, Incident Response Team, Disaster Recovery Team and Availability teams to develop, coordinate and execute the annual testing programs. Ensure after each test or event that key functions can be recovered within required recovery times to meet enterprise-wide objectives and report on the results. Perform ongoing risk assessments of Business Resiliency threats and ensure that Varo has business continuity plans that consider new or emerging risks. Assess the business resiliency of current or proposed third-party relationships and work with Third Party Risk Management when reporting on events experienced by a third party. Show less

Greater Pittsburgh Area

Greater Pittsburgh Area

Providing leadership in coordinating, assessing, developing & communicating recovery environment requirements and contingency plans associated with Dollar Banks Business Units to protect the bank in the event that facilities or technology resources are unavailable. Providing complex project leadership between the technology groups and other Dollar Banks business units, emphasizing regular direct communication with hosted service support management. Interfacing with the Information Technology… Show more Providing leadership in coordinating, assessing, developing & communicating recovery environment requirements and contingency plans associated with Dollar Banks Business Units to protect the bank in the event that facilities or technology resources are unavailable. Providing complex project leadership between the technology groups and other Dollar Banks business units, emphasizing regular direct communication with hosted service support management. Interfacing with the Information Technology (IT) Disaster Recovery (DR) exercises in a lead role. Responsible for providing vision and leadership in developing and coordinating implementation of the Business Unit contingency plans for providing manual / off-line procedures development to mitigate any risk associated with complete or partial failure of facilities, technology, or applications related to an unforeseen disruption. Interact with the critical business units and support groups for the purpose of planning, directing, controlling, maintaining and maturing the contingency planning effort. Show less

Buffalo/Niagara, New York Area

Responsible for the oversight of risk identification and mitigation for operational risk, including the oversight of Enterprise Business Continuity and Physical Security Lines of Business programs and policies. Provide highly specialized guidance and oversight on current and emerging legal, regulatory, and operational risk issues. Review and challenge strategy (initiative, products, third parties, and clients), control design, implementation, testing, and remediation while monitoring and… Show more Responsible for the oversight of risk identification and mitigation for operational risk, including the oversight of Enterprise Business Continuity and Physical Security Lines of Business programs and policies. Provide highly specialized guidance and oversight on current and emerging legal, regulatory, and operational risk issues. Review and challenge strategy (initiative, products, third parties, and clients), control design, implementation, testing, and remediation while monitoring and measuring operational risk performance. Show less

Buffalo/Niagara, New York Area

Directed the development of the Business Continuity Management and provided regular updates to the Chief Risk Officer. Assessed the Business Continuity implications of proposed technological, organizational changes, and coordinated revisions to the existing Business Continuity Plan and procedures. Ensured that all technical components of the Business Continuity Plan were successfully tested at least annually, or whenever significant changes are made to those components. Planned and coordinating… Show more Directed the development of the Business Continuity Management and provided regular updates to the Chief Risk Officer. Assessed the Business Continuity implications of proposed technological, organizational changes, and coordinated revisions to the existing Business Continuity Plan and procedures. Ensured that all technical components of the Business Continuity Plan were successfully tested at least annually, or whenever significant changes are made to those components. Planned and coordinating at least one simulation exercise a year involving all critical business units. Documented the results of all tests and exercises, and recommended enhancements to the Business continuity Plan and procedures. Provided 24x7 on-call support for any emergency that required activation of all or part of the Business Continuity Plan. In the event that activation is required, serving as liaison between senior Management and the departmental Business Continuity teams. Show less

• Facilitated all new hire, quality awareness and call management courses• Designed, developed and facilitated quick hit class for chargeback reason codes, Travel and Entertainment areas, retrieval areas, and compliance department.