Vice President, Business Continuity & Operational Resilience

Responsibilities Business Continuity Management Coordinate and review Business Impact Analyses (BIA) across business and support functions. Challenge and validate recovery objectives, recovery strategies, and continuity plans. Ensure business continuity plans remain current, tested, and aligned to regulatory expectations. Monitor BCM program effectiveness and report key risks and issues to management committees. Operational Resilience Support the implementation and ongoing maintenance of the Operational Resilience framework. Facilitate critical business service identification, criticality assessments, impact tolerance assessments, and dependency mapping. Coordinate resilience self-assessments and remediation activities. Track resilience vulnerabilities and drive closure of identified gaps. Prepare management reporting and governance materials for senior management forums. System Drills, Disaster Recovery & Scenario Testing Lead the planning, coordination, execution, and post-exercise review of: System recovery, technology resilience tests and business continuity exercise Operational Resilience scenario testing exercise considering severe-but-plausible disruption Coordinate with Technology, Operations, vendors, and business stakeholders to ensure testing objectives are achieved. Assess recovery outcomes against RTO, RPO, Impact Tolerance, and business recovery requirements. Produce exercise reports, lessons learned, and remediation plans. Track and report outstanding actions arising from resilience and recovery exercises. Regional APAC Oversight Act as the Regional Subject Matter Expert for Business Continuity Management (BCM) and Operational Resilience across APAC entities. Facilitate cross-border scenario exercises involving multiple countries, business functions, shared service centers, and technology teams. Drive the regional execution of operational resilience initiatives, including Critical Business Service identification, Impact Tolerance assessments, and end-to-end dependency mapping. Incident & Crisis Management Support major incident management and crisis response activities. Act as a coordinator during operational disruptions and resilience events. Regulatory & Stakeholder Management Maintain awareness of developments in relevant regulatory BCM guidelines, operational resilience requirements, and relevant industry standards. Engage with internal and external audit reviews where required. Build strong relationships across business, operations, technology, risk, and senior management functions. Requirements Bachelor's degree in Business, Risk Management, Finance, Information Technology, or related discipline. Minimum 8 to 12 years of experience in: Business Continuity Management Operational Resilience Disaster Recovery or Crisis Management Experience within banking, financial services, or other highly regulated industries preferred. Hands-on experience leading DR exercises, crisis simulations, operational resilience scenario testing, and recovery planning. Strong understanding of: MAS BCM Guidelines Operational Resilience principles Technology recovery and disaster recovery frameworks Third-party resilience risk management Professional certifications such as CBCP, MBCI, ISO 22301 Lead Implementer, DRI, CISSP, or related certifications are advantageous.