Business Continuity Analyst

About the job

Your Main Activities Are

• Ensure an effective collaboration with all operational resilience officers, business continuity officers (BCO), IT Continuity Resilience Officers (ICRO), and all relevant stakeholders, to guarantee the efficiency and high-quality of the Business Continuity planning lifecycle activities
• Contribute to business continuity life-cycle activities: 
  • The Strategic Assessment of the perimeter eligible to the BCP detailed framework, ensuring an exhaustive and adequate coverage of the organizational units (OU); a quarterly change management process, duly justified by documented rationales; and the collection of evidences of formal approval of the assessments by the right level of management
  • The execution of Business Impact Analyses (BIA), Business Continuity requirements (BCR) and Business Continuity Plans, using CIB standard templates, ensuring structure is optimized to cover global activities across all locations involved, performing thorough quality checks, controlling and challenging the consistency and relevance of impact analyses, subsequent continuity requirements and operational recovery procedures, including alignment with Operational Resilience deliverables with Operational Resilience Officers, effectively collaborating with IT Continuity & Resilience Officers (ICRO) to guarantee that business requirements are used to define IT continuity capabilities of the IT applications, and obtaining formal validation by the right level of management
  • The execution of adequate continuity testing programmes to ensure that continuity strategies, solutions and procedures are effective, ensuring that preparation, execution, lessons learned and improvement actions are duly documented and steered, and that risks stemming from any dysfunction observed during tests are properly managed through CIB operational risk management processes

• Guarantee the proper execution of control mechanisms to ensure oversight and mitigation of risks (1st Line of Defense) and report to the team manager key risks identified through controls
• Ensure compliance with CIB and BNP Paribas Group rules and support the remediation and implementation of any audit recommendations issued on the scope by the Inspection Générale or any other internal or external supervisory entity on time and in a sustainable manner
• Promote the values of the Business Continuity SSC and the Operational Resilience department, through exemplarity, risk-based mindset and approach, respecting commitments and deadlines and collaborative team spirit

Profile and Skills to Success

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Management
• Experience in Project Management, Relationship Management, Operations, Risk or IT
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office tools, particularly Excel
• Excellent communication skills and fluency in English
• Analytical ability and critical thinking skills

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Why joining BNP Paribas? 

· Leading banking institution

BNP Paribas is the European Union’s leading bank, and key player in international banking. It operates in 63 countries and has nearly 183.000 employees, including more than 146.000 in Europe.

· Our presence in Portugal

In Portugal since 1985, BNP Paribas today has more than 8.700 employees, distributed across the Group’s 10 business entities established in the country. Its presence also extends to 11 excellence centres providing value-added services to various countries where the BNP Paribas Group also operates.

· International reach 

Thanks to its international presence and regular and close collaboration among its different entities, BNP Paribas has the resources to support all clients with financing, investment, savings and protection solutions that help make their projects a success. BNP Paribas holds key positions in its three core operating divisions: 

• Retail Banking, a division that brings together all of the Group’s retail activities and specialised business lines; 
• Investment & Protection Services that include specialised businesses offering a wide range of savings, investment and protection services; 
• Corporate & Institutional Banking division that offers tailored financial solutions for corporate and institutional clients.

· Diversity and Inclusion commitment 

BNP Paribas is an equal opportunity employer and proud to provide equal employment opportunity to all job seekers. We are actively committed to ensuring that no individual is discriminated against on the grounds of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. Equity and diversity are at the core of our recruitment policy because we believe that they foster creativity and efficiency, which in turn increase performance and productivity. We strive to reflect the society we live in, while keeping with the image of our clients.

· Commitment towards work/life balance

At BNP Paribas we care about our employees wellbeing and promote a culture of good integration between work and rest. We believe our employees have rich personal lives outside of work, being fundamental to be disconnected from work to recharge both physically and mentally. Only through this balance we may all be at our best while working.

· Remote Working Conditions

At BNP Paribas, we embrace a Smart Working framework based on trust, autonomy and collaboration. Within this framework, eligible employees can benefit from flexible remote working modalities adapted to our hybrid working environment. To guarantee a comfortable and efficient working set-up, eligible employees are provided with both the office and home equipment, are entitled to an equipment allowance and can benefit from exclusive partnerships to purchase additional equipment at reduced prices. 

To find out more on why you should join BNP Paribas visit https://bnpp.lk/why-BNP-Paribas-Portugal

* Please note that only applications submitted in English will be considered. 

* In case you are selected for this role, further documentation will be requested to support your hiring process.