FTC - Business Continuity Management Advisor - Capital Markets

What is the opportunity?

The successful candidate will lead the Business Continuity Management (BCM) function within an RBC business line and/or region, ensuring maximum preparedness, compliance with RBC policy, regulatory requirements, and industry standards for Incident Management, Crisis Management, Business Continuity Planning (BCP), Disaster Recovery Planning, and Operational Resilience.

• Assess the adequacy of alternative strategy analysis and resource dependencies as prerequisites for continuity plan development and resource allocation.
• Guide the creation of standardized plans, testing, and incident management processes.
• Manage strategic and tactical activities of business/regional BCM advisors, including Business Impact Analysis of essential processes.
• Develop, document, and implement BCP plans, identify emerging risks, test, verify, and close gaps across all assigned business functions.
• Create a BCP/Emergency Response Environment within responsible Business Lines.
• Identify and address undue risk-taking in risk identification, tolerance definition, continuity task selection, and plan testing.
• Assist BCM advisors in testing BCM capability across platforms and regions to enhance readiness.
• Partner with Business Line Executives to build, coordinate, and maintain a multi-disciplinary Incident Management Team, providing response capabilities for the platform.
• Stay informed on changes in RBC products, services, processes, IT, and compliance that impact continuity risk profiles and thresholds.
• Support delivery of the Operational Resilience framework to the business.

• Enquiring mindset with analytical thinking.
• Strong organizational skills and detail orientation.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks and priorities.
• Strong client focus and effective teamwork approach.
• Relationship‑building, facilitation, and team‑building skills across all management levels.
• Highly self‑motivated with initiative.
• Ability to work in a rapidly changing environment.
• Willingness to accept accountability, work with limited supervision, and support cross‑unit cooperation and information sharing.
• Solid working knowledge of IT systems and Microsoft Office.
• Execution excellence.
• Collaborative mindset.
• Attention to detail.
• Awareness of client impact.

• General IT awareness.
• Proven capital markets experience.
• Knowledge of operational risk.
• Disaster recovery awareness.
• Operational resilience knowledge.

• A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses, flexible benefits, and competitive compensation.
• Leadership support through coaching and development opportunities.
• Opportunities to work with top professionals in the field.
• Ability to make a lasting impact.
• Dynamic, collaborative, high‑performing team environment.
• World‑class training program in financial services.

Location:

100 Bishopsgate, London, United Kingdom