Business Continuity Planner

Description

Job Title - Business Continuity Manager (BCM / Resilience)

Location - Toronto, ON (Hybrid)

Position Summary

One of our financial services clients is currently looking to hire a Business Continuity Manager with hands on experience with OSFI E-21 and work with Operational Resiliency.

The Business Continuity Planner supports the design, execution, and ongoing maintenance of the organizations Canada’s Business Continuity Management (BCM) and operational resilience program. This role partners with business, operations, technology, and corporate functions to ensure critical services can withstand and recover from disruptions, meet internal standards, and align with applicable regulatory expectations.

Key Responsibilities

Maintain and enhance the BCM framework, policies, standards, procedures, and playbooks for the bank.

Lead and coordinate Business Impact Analyses (BIAs), including critical process mapping, dependency identification, recovery assumptions, and validation of criticality.

Support development and maintenance of Business Continuity Plans (BCPs) and Crisis Management / Incident Response supporting documentation, ensuring plans are practical, current, and tested.

Facilitate and document testing and exercises (tabletops, simulations, call trees), including scenario design, coordination, issue logging, and post-exercise lessons learned.

Track and drive remediation of BCM gaps and findings, including corrective action plans, ownership, target dates, and evidence completion.

Partner with Technology / IT to align business continuity requirements with IT disaster recovery (DR) capabilities, recovery metrics, and change management.

Provide guidance to business stakeholders on recovery strategies, continuity controls, and resilience requirements for people, process, technology, and third parties.

Support third-party / vendor resilience activities (, dependency mapping, continuity evidence reviews, risk assessments) in partnership with Vendor Risk / Procurement.

Produce program reporting and metrics for senior management and governance forums (, testing completion, plan currency, key risks, issues aged).

Contribute to audit and regulatory readiness by maintaining documentation, responding to requests, and supporting walkthroughs and reviews.

Stakeholders / Interfaces

Business and Operations leaders, Corporate Functions (Finance, HR, Legal, Facilities)

Technology, Infrastructure, Cyber/InfoSec, IT DR teams

Enterprise Risk Management, Operational Risk, Compliance

Vendor Management / Third-Party Risk Management

Internal Audit and external regulators (as applicable)

Required Qualifications

3–7 years of experience in Business Continuity Management, Operational Resilience, Crisis Management, Operational Risk, or related risk/control disciplines, ideally in financial services.

Hands-on experience leading BIAs, writing/updating BCPs, and coordinating testing/exercises.

Strong documentation skills with the ability to translate complex processes into clear, actionable plans.

Strong stakeholder management skills; able to influence across functions and levels.

Proficiency with Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word); comfort building dashboards/metrics

Skills

Business continuity

Top Skills Details

Business continuity

Additional Skills & Qualifications

Experience Level

Intermediate Lev

Job Type & Location

This is a Contract position based out of Toronto, ON.

Pay and Benefits

The pay range for this position is $ - $

Workplace Type

This is a hybrid position in Toronto,ON.

À propos de TEKsystems et TEKsystems Global Services

Nous sommes un fournisseur de services aux entreprises et de technologies. Nous accélérons la transformation de nos clients. Notre compétence en stratégie, conception, exécution et opérations libère la valeur de l’entreprise par un éventail de solutions. Nous sommes une équipe de 80 000 personnes qui collaborent avec plus de 60 000 clients, notamment 80 % du Fortune 500 en Amérique du Nord, Europe et Asie, qui collaborent avec nous dans le cadre de nos capacités full-stack et notre rythme. Nous sommes des penseurs stratégiques, des collaborateurs pratiques qui aident les clients à exploiter le changement et maîtriser le dynamisme de la technologie. Nous bâtissons le futur en livrant les résultats et en créant un impact positif dans nos communautés mondiales. TEKsystems et TEKsystems Global Services sont des entreprises d’Allegis Group. Découvrez d’autres informations à

About TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services

We’re a leading provider of business and technology services. We accelerate business transformation for our customers. Our expertise in strategy, design, execution and operations unlocks business value through a range of solutions. We’re a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 customers, including 80% of the Fortune 500 across North America, Europe and Asia, who partner with us for our scale, full-stack capabilities and speed. We’re strategic thinkers, hands-on collaborators, helping customers capitalize on change and master the momentum of technology. We’re building tomorrow by delivering business outcomes and making positive impacts in our global communities. TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services are Allegis Group companies. Learn more at

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