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23.01.2025 Expiry Date:
09.03.2025 Job Description:
Description Do you want to elevate Swift’s best-in-class business continuity framework to even higher levels? Do you want to deliver value to the business by ensuring our foundations, services, and operations are reliable and efficient? Are you a strong leader with a passion for operational excellence, security, and resilience? Swift progresses on making international transactions faster, smarter, and better in a constantly changing world and competitive marketplace. Innovations in the cross-border payments landscape are introduced, and new technology enables new opportunities. At the same time, the industry navigates through uncertainty and change. Swift maintains a relentless focus and strong track record on the reliability and resiliency of our services and platform while technology infrastructure and capabilities undergo transformation. By leveraging new technologies, standardization, and automation, we aim to create a sustainable and scalable platform that will not only maintain the security, resilience, and stability of the Swift network but also provide enhanced value to our customers. We are seeking a passionate leader to globally manage business continuity for Swift across our ecosystem in a mission-critical environment. In this function, you will join the Technology Platform leadership group and contribute to maintaining our strong foundations in an ever-changing landscape, with rapidly changing market and technology dynamics. The main objective of this function will be to lead the following for Swift: Development of Business Continuity Management (BCM) strategies - determine and guide the selection of possible business operating strategies for continuation of business while maintaining the organization’s critical functions.
Organize and manage the formulation of the business continuity (BC) function as a key component of integrated risk management and overall corporate resilience.
Maintain the BC process and controls in the changing business, technology, and regulatory landscape. Maintain a ‘clean sheet’ in the relevant internal and external audits.
Manage the BC team (5 experts), providing resilience strategies, recovery objectives, business continuity plans, and obtaining management support.
Business impact analysis in strong collaboration with business/service owners – identifying the impacts resulting from disruptions that can affect the organization and techniques that can be used to quantify and qualify such impacts.
Emergency response and operations - develop and implement procedures for responding to and stabilizing the situation following an incident, including establishing and managing an emergency operations facility to be used as a command center during the emergency.
Developing and implementing business continuity and crisis management plans - designing, developing, and implementing plans that provide continuity within the recovery time and recovery point objectives.
Awareness and training programs – roll out the relevant programs to create and maintain corporate-wide awareness and enhance the skills required to develop and implement the business continuity program/process and its supporting activities.
Maintaining and exercising plans - pre-planning and coordinating plan exercises and evaluating and documenting plan exercise results.
Coordination with a broad set of stakeholders – both internally and externally (e.g., collaborating with service and business owners, corporate-wide resilience functions, and BC engagements with our client community).
Risk evaluation and control – determine the events and external surroundings that can adversely affect Swift and its resources, the damage such events can cause, and the controls needed to prevent or minimize the effects of potential loss.
You will: Be accountable for Business Continuity at Swift.
Have
people management responsibilities
for the team reporting to you.
Role-model our corporate values and leadership behaviors.
What this role brings you: A highly relevant role, with an opportunity to make a difference in a domain which is key to Swift’s strategic success.
A great team
– with skilled and fun people, and a very dedicated collaborative internal network.
Constant learning
– with the changes in our ecosystem, it’s impossible to get bored. No such thing as a dull day.
Qualifications You bring: BC expertise
– A proven BC track record in a global organization with a mission-critical nature is a must.
Strong vision and Leadership skills
– You demonstrated strategizing, setting direction in terms of how to operate and run technology services.
A Servant leadership style
- You can empower teams, inspire, and challenge.
Business savviness
– You bring deep understanding of the financial ecosystem and applicable regulation.
Experience At least 10 years of relevant experience. What we offer We put you in control of your career. We give you a competitive package. We help you perform at your best. We help you make a difference. We give you the freedom to be yourself. We are creating an environment of unique individuals – like you – with different perspectives on the financial industry and the world. Please note that if you are NOT a passport holder of the country for the vacancy you might need a work permit.
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