Senior Business Continuity Manager

 
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Senior Business Continuity Manager

Barclays Global Investors (BGI) is America's largest money manager, providing structured investment strategies such as indexing, risk-controlled active products, and exchange traded funds to investors worldwide. For 35 years, BGI has been at the forefront of developing innovative investment ideas, applying science and technology to the investment process. Headquartered in San Francisco and recently named one of the SF Business Times' "Best Places to Work in the Bay Area," the Barclays PLC subsidiary employs over 2,600 people globally and manages $1.5 trillion in assets.

Overview
The Senior Business Continuity Manager (BCM) manages all IT Business Continuity globally. This includes managing and attending all fail-over tests, ensuring local IT managers for IT BCM Roles, Managing global BCM projects and reporting status to the Global Head of BCM.

Responsibilities
Determine global testing calendar to ensure minimal impact to BGI and BCM staff and ensure all applications and infrastructure are tested globally Benchmark BGI against appropriate BCP industry related practices and standards Keep current on new developments in BC, keeping GPO and BGI staff advised Meet with decision-makers, systems owners, and end users to define IT business continuity standards, policy and procedures Collaborate with infrastructure teams and application tams to build a premier business continuity environment Perform cost-benefit and return on investment analyses for proposed changes to aid management in making implementation decisions. Communicate status of IT BCM to Global BCM Steering Committee Allocate resources to provide business-as-usual support of business continuity Ensure adequate resources for business continuity globally Provide support to internal and external auditors to handle queries regarding business continuity documentation and proof of testing and compliance. Also write and/or review all responses to internal and external auditors



Requirements
Minimum 5 years business continuity experience BS/BA Degree or equivalent

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BGI's San Francisco headquarters is located at 45 Fremont (near Market Street) and is easily accessible by BART and Muni. More information about careers at BGI can be obtained at http://www.barclaysglobal.com/about/careers/?r=19&a=34.



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