Business Resilience Specialist – Operational Risk & Continuity (Sydney)

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Business Resilience Specialist to join a growing, highly respected Australian financial services organisation. This role offers the chance to shape and maintain enterprise-wide business continuity and operational resilience practices, ensuring the organisation is prepared for disruptions while meeting regulatory obligations.

The Role
Reporting into the senior operational risk leadership team, the Business Resilience Specialist will focus on embedding, maintaining, and enhancing business continuity and resilience practices across the organisation. The role involves coordinating and supporting activities such as Business Impact Analysis (BIA), continuity planning, scenario testing, risk assessments for change initiatives, and governance reporting.
The role requires a proactive, detail-oriented professional who can work autonomously, engage with stakeholders across multiple teams, and deliver high-quality risk insights and documentation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Facilitate annual and ad-hoc Business Impact Analysis (BIA) reviews to ensure accuracy and currency.
• Maintain and refresh Business Continuity Plans (BCPs), including updates to tolerances and risk assessments.
• Coordinate and oversee scenario testing exercises, track outcomes, and report findings to executive committees.
• Develop, communicate, and train staff on business continuity guidelines, procedures, and tools.
• Maintain frameworks and registers for critical operations, including disruption tolerance and dependencies.
• Support risk assessments for change initiatives impacting continuity, embedding continuity considerations into governance processes.
• Prepare and present reporting on resilience performance, testing outcomes, and operational risk insights.
• Monitor disruptions across critical operations to assess breaches of tolerance thresholds and recommend remediation actions.

Candidate Profile

Essential:

• 7+ years’ experience in business continuity, operational risk management, and process modelling within APRA-regulated or financial services organisations.
• Practical experience implementing business continuity and operational risk frameworks, protocols, and tools.
• Strong understanding of APRA CPS 220 / CPS 230 principles and requirements.
• Experience in change management, including embedding risk and continuity considerations into projects.
• Excellent report writing, presentation, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical thinking abilities.
• Ability to work autonomously, manage confidential matters, and provide pragmatic, commercially aware advice.
• Ability to build strong relationships, influence stakeholders, and foster a resilience-focused culture.

Desirable:

• 3+ years’ experience in ideally within an APRA regulated financial services entity.
• Experience in regulatory change projects, particularly with CPS 220–230.
• Qualifications in risk, audit, business continuity, or resilience.
• Experience with data analytics tools.

For further information on this role or to confidentially apply, please contact Matt Quinn on (02) 8227 9200 or email at [email protected]
Only WORD FORMAT resumes will be accepted.