Senior Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Associate

** Join a team that values your ambition and empowers your growth
** At Corient, we help high- and ultra-high-net-worth individuals and families to enjoy a full life, while enabling them to preserve their wealth for future generations, and provide for the people, causes and communities they care about. We focus on exceeding expectations, simplifying lives, and establishing legacies that last for generations. We are always looking for talented and motivated individuals to join our team.

If you want to work for a company that values your contributions and supports your growth, we would like to meet you.
** Responsibilities
* *** Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
*** Lead the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of the enterprise BC/DR program.
* Conduct Business Impact Analyses (BIA), Risk Assessments (RA), and Continuity of Operations Planning (COOP).
* Liaise with key stakeholders to ensure ongoing Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) alignment with business impact and system criticality
* Facilitate Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP), testing, and exercises to validate recovery capabilities.
* Define strategies to ensure resilience with critical SaaS dependencies
* Educate stakeholders on BC/DR procedures and ensure organizational readiness for crisis scenarios.
* Facilitate interconnectivity between incident response and BC/DR plans and testing activities to ensure that cybersecurity scenarios are adequately contemplated.
** Information Security Governance
*** Enhance and maintain the Information Security Policy Framework, ensuring alignment with regulatory requirements and industry standards (e.g., NIST CSF, ISO 27001, NIS2, DORA, CIS, etc.).
* Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure policies are understood, adopted, and enforced across the organization.
** Compliance & Controls
*** Ensure adoption and operationalization of a control framework aimed at maintaining compliance with key frameworks and regulatory requirements
* Perform security compliance framework assessments and control narrative creation
* Conduct control testing, identify deficiencies, and drive remediation efforts.
** Risk Management
*** Maintain the enterprise Information Security Risk Register and perform periodic and ad hoc risk assessments.
* Support risk treatment planning and ensure alignment with the organization’s risk appetite.
* Perform third party risk assessments and ongoing oversight activities.
** Security Awareness & Culture
*** Promote a security-first mindset across the organization.
* Contribute to the development and delivery of security awareness programs.## ##
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* Qualifications & Requirements:

*** Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience; relevant certifications preferred (e.g., CBCP, MBCP, MBCI, FBCI)
* 3-6+ years’ experience in cybersecurity, GRC, and/or BC/DR roles, ideally within financial services.
* Strong analytical and critical thinking skills and the ability to organize work in a logical, thorough, and succinct manner.
* Highly self-motivated, results-orientated, and self-directed to handle multiple ongoing tasks.
* Flexibility to adapt to changing assignments and ability to effectively prioritize.
* Effective written and verbal English communication at all levels.
* Demonstrated ability to operate and innovate in a small team with a fast‐paced environment, balancing both strategic and tactical needs.
* This position description is intended to provide a general overview of the expectations and responsibilities of this position and may not include all tasks that may be assigned. As the nature of business demands change, so may the functions of this position. Additional duties and responsibilities may be assigned with or without notice.
*** Pay Information
** This position is exempt and is paid according to the laws of the State of Illinois. The pay range for this position is $125, USD per year.
* We are required to provide a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. This range considers the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to experience, skills, knowledge, abilities, education,…