About the Role:
The Senior Enterprise Risk Analyst (Business Continuity Management) supports and independently delivers key elements of the business continuity and operational resilience programme across the company's UAE entities. This role is crucial in helping the business understand which services must keep running, how long they can be disrupted before customers are affected, and whether the firm could recover within that timeframe. The Analyst works closely with first-line owners across the business and plays a supporting role in responding to regulatory expectations on operational resilience.
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Key Responsibilities
- Support the delivery of the business continuity and operational resilience programme across both UAE entities, in accordance with Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE) expectations and the Group risk framework.
- Run the business impact analysis cycle with departments to gather, challenge, and consolidate information regarding what each team does, what breaks if it stops, and how quickly recovery is possible.
- Support the identification of critical operations and the establishment of impact tolerances in collaboration with first-line owners and senior management.
- Develop and maintain business continuity and recovery plans, dependency mapping, and crisis playbooks, ensuring they are current, practical, and usable.
- Coordinate and support the exercise and testing programme, including tabletop exercises, documenting outcomes, lessons learned, and follow-up actions.
- Maintain and continuously improve business continuity and operational resilience policies, standards, and methodologies.
- Contribute to resilience reporting for senior management, risk committees, and the regulator, including maturity and self-assessment positions.
- Support third-party and technology dependency work that may affect the resilience of critical operations.
- Provide practical support to first-line owners on business impact analyses, recovery objectives, continuity planning, and remediation actions.
- Act as a point of contact for internal audit, supporting regulatory or external reviews related to business continuity and operational resilience.
- Support Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) governance and tooling, including the use and administration of GRC tools, maintaining documentation, committee materials, action trackers, and audit-ready evidence.
Skills, Knowledge & Expertise
- 2–4 years' experience in business continuity, operational resilience, operational risk, or a related role within Financial Services, FinTech, Payments, or another regulated environment.
- Practical working knowledge of business continuity and resilience concepts such as business impact analysis, recovery objectives, continuity planning, and testing, with the ability to apply them pragmatically.
- Awareness of regulatory expectations for operational resilience; familiarity with CBUAE requirements or an equivalent regime is an advantage.
- Strong stakeholder engagement skills, capable of running workshops and interviews with department heads and constructively challenging answers.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including experience in preparing clear plans, reports, and presentations.
Job Benefits
- A working environment that promotes autonomy and responsibility from day one.
- An opportunity to influence the trajectory of your career through the quality of your work.
- Participation in the company's employee stock options program.
- Health insurance coverage.
- Flexi Perks: A monetary benefit allowing you the freedom to use it as you see fit, whether for health and well-being, education and professional development, or travel needs!
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: UAE
Department: Enterprise Risk
Reporting To: Uday Barot
