Manager, Third Party Disaster Readiness Risk

Job Description What is the opportunity?

This role is critical to the success of the T&O Business Continuity & Third-Party Disaster Readiness team’s ability to build and maintain a successful Centre of Excellence via clearly documented risk assessment processes, insightful reporting, and alignment to industry and internal standards, and to regulatory/legislative requirements.

• Support the end-to-end process for assessing, monitoring, and validating suppliers’ disaster recovery (DR) capabilities.
• Ensure alignment with corporate resilience standards, internal risk frameworks, and applicable regulatory expectations.
• Provide oversight and support to business units for the identification, mitigation, and remediation of third‑party disaster recovery risks.
• Conduct third‑party disaster readiness due diligence and ongoing risk assessments for new, existing, and renewed contracts.
• Identify and elevate material risks, unresponsiveness, delayed service level agreements (SLAs), and critical deficiencies to senior leadership for timely action.
• Support the evaluation of concentrated supplier risks and recommend strategies to mitigate single points of failure.
• Document end‑to‑end requirements for meeting new obligations in Third Party Disaster Recovery risk assessment, monitoring, and reporting.
• Look for opportunities to automate processes, communication and/or reporting.
• Partner with Line of Business teams, IT Risk, BCM, Supplier Management Office, and SaaS Architecture to ensure comprehensive and accurate DR assessments.
• Act as a subject‑matter expert to support supplier engagements, contract negotiations, and renewal discussions related to resilience and disaster recovery provisions.
• Leverage the existing supplier management process to determine risk assessment needs and priorities, make assessments, and report results.
• Identify any issues or risk gaps and track issues through to completion.
• Document opportunities for improvement uncovered through reviews or research as required, to increase efficiency and better meet the goals of the business.
• Assist in implementing KRIs/ KPIs/ EXI metrics for our overall compliance reporting obligations.
• Assist in understanding how new regulations, policies or standards impact the disaster readiness process and reporting in order to make meaningful recommendations on suggested changes.
• Develop or improve tools and mechanisms for building reporting processes for the team and the business.

• University/College Degree in a relevant or applicable field.
• 5+ years of experience in performing risk assessment and related reporting and tracking.
• Experience with Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Management.
• Basic understanding of IT infrastructure and Third‑Party Supplier Lifecycle.
• Ability to understand policies, standards, and related regulatory requirements, particularly with respect to third‑party relationships.
• Ability to work independently or within team structures.
• Ability to learn quickly in order to understand stakeholder positions throughout the enterprise.

• Working with financial institutions or a similar large organization.
• Software/system implementation experience for SaaS/cloud solutions.
• Some knowledge or experience with MSA/ contractual agreements.

We thrive on the challenge to be our best, progressive thinking to keep growing, and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.

• A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable.
• Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities.
• Ability to make a difference and lasting impact.
• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high‑performing team.
• A world‑class training program in financial services.
• Opportunities to do challenging work.

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