Senior Business Resilience Analyst

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Job Title

Senior Business Resilience Analyst

Office Location

London

Department

Office of the General Counsel

The Risk Management team is an integral part of the Office of the General Counsel that develops the firm’s approach, policies and procedures to risk management, resilience and insurance, and oversees implementation within wider management processes. The team creates and communicates overall strategy for risk and resilience through influencing and informing key decision makers and providing insight and assurance on risk-related matters.

Working Hours

35 hours per week, 9:30am to 5:30pm but additional hours may be required.  We are happy to consider agile and flexible working patterns.  Our approach to hybrid working allows for up to 40% of time working from home and 60% working in the office, please contact a member of the recruitment team to discuss further.

Role Overview

The Senior Business Resilience Analyst will play an important part in helping the firm prevent, adapt to, respond to, recover from and learn from business disruptions and other unexpected events. The role is responsible for supporting the development, implementation, ongoing maintenance and periodic testing of an operational resilience framework. 

Working collaboratively with stakeholders across the legal practice and Business Team, the Senior Business Resilience Analyst will help provide insight into the firm’s risk profile and vulnerabilities, identify critical business activities, and map people, processes, technology, facilities and third parties that could disrupt work on client matters or business operations.

Ultimately, the Senior Business Resilience Analyst helps ensure the firm is better prepared to withstand and recover from significant disruption, protect clients and other stakeholders from unacceptable harm, and maintain its most important activities, processes, services and systems.

Key Responsibilities

Specific duties or responsibilities may be reviewed from time to time to reflect changes in personnel and management structure, staff location or services. All members of the firm participate in our Responsible Business program.

• Operational Resilience Framework: Support the development, implementation and maintenance of an operational resilience framework, policies, standards and procedures, ensuring alignment with firm, client and regulatory expectations and requirements.

• Business Impact Analysis: Assist in identifying and documenting important services and functions, including their owners, delivery processes, required resources, potential impact if disrupted and impact tolerances, to establish a clear understanding of dependencies and vulnerabilities.

• Resilience Gap Assessments: Conduct assessments to identify vulnerabilities, single points of failure, concentration risks and weaknesses in existing business processes and recommend proportionate measures to improve resilience.

• Incident Response and Management: Support the development and maintenance of incident response, crisis management, business continuity and similar capabilities and plans.

• Testing: Coordinate and support tabletop exercises and scenario testing to assess the firm’s ability to respond to severe but plausible events, identify any weaknesses, and remediation actions.

• After-Action Reviews: Coordinate post-incident reviews, capture lessons learned and facilitate the identification of opportunities to improve preparedness.

• Governance and Reporting: Prepare relevant information, dashboards, reports etc. to support management and other stakeholder reporting.

• Continuous Improvement: Monitor emerging risks, internal and external changes and lessons from external events to ensure the overall operational resilience framework remains relevant and effective.

• Insurance Management: Support insurance renewal, administration and claims processes, especially for those insurance coverages where there is a linkage with managing wider business resilience.

Skills & Experience

Qualifications Skills and Experience

• Five or more years’ experience in crisis management, business continuity management, resilience or a related discipline (preferably in a professional services environment).

General Attributes

• Discreet and professional in handling confidential and sensitive information.

• Excellent organisation skills and attention to detail, particularly in maintaining documentation.

• Proficient in written and verbal communication.

• Advanced analytical skills, with the ability to assess complex dependencies and identify potential vulnerabilities.

• Effective problem solving skills and confidence to challenge assumptions and recommend practical improvements.

• Strong interpersonal skills and an ability to communicate effectively with the partnership, senior management, client representatives and regulators.

• Proficient using Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint and experience of business continuity management software, incident management platforms and other  specialist tools.

Equal Opportunities Employment & Agile Working Statement

It is the policy of Hogan Lovells Cadwalader to provide equal opportunities for all employees in relation to recruitment, training and promotion.  Decisions in these areas will be made only by reference to the requirements of the job and shall not be influenced by any consideration of racial or ethnic origin, religion, sex, gender and gender identity, age, sexual orientation, marital and civil partnership status, pregnancy or disability.

Our goal is to embed flexibility across our business by giving everyone the opportunity to work in an agile way, whether as a regular pattern or on an ad hoc basis, and we will be happy to discuss this further.

Agency Submissions

Hogan Lovells Cadwalader operates a Preferred Supplier List (PSL) for Business Team and Secretarial Services recruitment in the UK.  We do not accept speculative or unsolicited agency submissions / candidate introductions, via email, from agencies outside of the PSL.   Nor will we be liable to pay any placement fees for submissions / candidate introductions submitted directly to any Partners or employees of Hogan Lovells Cadwalader.