Executive Director, Operational Resilience jobs in United States
cer-icon
Apply on Employer Site
company-logo

SMBC Group · 4 hours ago

Executive Director, Operational Resilience

SMBC Group is a top-tier global financial group offering a diverse range of financial services. The Executive Director of Third-Party Operational Resilience is responsible for implementing and maintaining the Operational Resilience framework with a focus on third parties, as well as leading the development of resilience strategies and policies.

AdviceBankingFinancial Services
check
H1B Sponsor Likelynote

Responsibilities

Lead and develop the Third-Party Program within the Operational Resilience Operational Resilience Office
Determine which qualitative/quantitative metrics and establish data collection protocols, validation data quality and develop comprehensive reporting tracking supplier remediation process, status, and actions. Develop and report comprehensive risk appetite metrics and Key Risk Indicators (KRIs) to monitor Critical third parties to management
Collaborate with Business Owners to create contingency plans and exit strategies for the Firm’s most critical vendors
Respond to internal and external audits, exams and requests for information
Support the understanding of where third-party relationships exist, the services they provide, ability to recover, recovery alignment to service level recovery, interconnectedness of third parties, and review of their alignment to the Important Business Service
Complete annual validations of all business continuity/disaster recovery plans for critical third parties to assure proper recoverability of the third-party
Participate in post-incident reviews of all incidents related to the Firm’s critical third parties
Proficiency in risk assessment methodologies, risk scoring models, concentration risk analysis, and fourth-party risk management

Qualification

Third-party risk managementOperational resilience frameworkRisk assessment methodologiesPolicyProcedure creationBusiness continuity planningOperational risk managementCyber resilience knowledgeCommunication skillsInterpersonal skillsProblem solving skillsOrganizational skillsTime management skills

Required

10+ years of experience in third-party risk management, preferably financial services
Knowledge of core competencies across the 4 Pillars of Operational Resilience (1.) Business Resilience, (2.) Technology Resilience, (3.) Third Party Resilience, and (4.) Cyber Resilience
Experience creating policy, procedure, and playbook documents. The ability to define problems, collect relevant information, and draw insightful conclusions
Demonstrated success building or maturing a third-party risk function
Strong communication, interpersonal, problem solving, organizational and time management skills
Familiarity with operational risk and enterprise risk management best-practices and controls

Benefits

Annual discretionary incentive award
Competitive portfolio of benefits

Company

SMBC Group

company-logo
SMBC Group is a top-tier global financial group.

H1B Sponsorship

SMBC Group has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship
Represents job field similar to this job
Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (160)
2024 (87)
2023 (73)
2022 (44)
2021 (29)
2020 (26)

Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage

Leadership Team

leader-logo
Hirofumi Otsuka
Senior Managing Executive Officer & CEO of Americas Division
linkedin
leader-logo
Juan Kreutz
Head of Structured Finance Solutions and Deputy Head of the Americas
linkedin
Company data provided by crunchbase