Director, Enterprise Continuity (FTC)

About CLS:

CLS is the trusted party at the centre of the global FX ecosystem. Utilized by thousands of counter parties, CLS makes FX safer, smoother and more cost effective. Trillions of dollars’ worth of currency flows through our systems each day.

Created by the market for the market, our unrivalled global settlement infrastructure reduces systemic risk and provides standardization for participants in many of the world’s most actively traded currencies. We deliver huge efficiencies and savings for our clients: in fact, our approach to multilateral netting shrinks funding requirements by over 96% on average, so clients can put their capital and resources to better use.

CLS products are designed to enable clients to manage risk most effectively across the full FX lifecycle – whether through more efficient processing tools or market intelligence derived from the largest single source of FX executed data available to the market.

Our ambition to make a positive difference starts with our people. Our values underpin everything that we do at CLS and define our working environment:

• Pivotal purpose
• Trusted guardian
• Targeted innovation
• Facilitate connections
• Delivering excellence
• Inclusive culture

• Functional title – Director – Enterprise Continuity (FTC)
• Department – Enterprise Continuity
• Corporate level
  - Director
• Report to – Executive Director – Enterprise Continuity
• Location
  - London
• Base pay / salary (New York) -

As a systemically important financial market utility, the operational resilience posture of CLS is inextricably tied to the wellbeing of the global financial infrastructure. While CLS enjoys a strong and demonstrable history of resilience of its platforms and operating environments, the need for CLS to maintain, monitor and improve the resilience of its services, demands an increased focus and maturity in the way in which CLS considers Resilience.

One of CLS’ top prioritise is Resilience.

CLS has a requirement for a senior role to support the development of Enterprise-wide Continuity within the context of the evolving Enterprise Resilience regulatory requirements and industry best practises. This role will report to the ED Enterprise Continuity, helping to make CLS’ resilience industry leading.

Supporting the design and delivery of an industry leading Enterprise Continuity program within the overall Enterprise Resilience function.

Develop internal and external stakeholder support for critical initiatives.

The successful candidate with be experienced engaging with Regulators and Senior Management.

The candidate will be required to lead change across the organization as CLS matures the resilience function. This will require creativity, ideation, industry credibility, experience, strong verbal and written influencing skills along with empathy and the ability to understand others and their positions.

A proactive, change mindset always thinking how to balance service, risk and investment in the service of the corporate strategy.

The candidate will

• Support the delivery of the Enterprise Continuity programme for CLS.
• Identify the CLS critical internal business services and associated Impact Tolerances.
• Lead the mapping and scenario testing of the critical internal business services to identify vulnerabilities.
• Design and deliver the resilience tooling and dashboarding for CLS.
• Deliver a programme of internal resilience improvement initiatives.
• Support the transformation of the current BCM capabilities to deliver industry leading, continuity solutions.
• Plan and deliver staff training and testing of various resilience capabilities.
• Prepare inputs for relevant governance bodies.
• Support the management of the Enterprise Continuity teams risk and controls environment.
• Support the design and execution of the enterprise wide Strategic BIA across all operational assets.
• Participate in the strategic and existential threat continuity planning at an enterprise level.
• Enhance the capability and enterprise utility of the BIA, mapping data and tooling.

Lead engagements internally and externally including at Executive Management.

The candidate shall have the following experience:

• Experi…