Alliant Credit Union ยท 1 week ago
Principal Business Continuity Specialist
Chicago, IL
Full-time
Hybrid
Lead/Staff
$95K/yr - $163K/yr
10+ years expAlliant Credit Union is seeking a Principal Business Continuity Specialist to drive organizational resilience and oversee the Business Continuity Program (BCP). The role involves leading the development of recovery plans, incident response efforts, and ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulatory requirements.
Financial Services
Responsibilities
Lead the development and continuous improvement of BIA and recovery plans, ensure alignment with organizational priorities
Demonstrate judgement and critical thinking to business continuity tasks, challenging process tiering while balancing regulatory, financial, reputational risks and technology dependencies to support restoring
Evaluate and leverage internal recovery solutions and external vendor capabilities to ensure resilience of critical business processes
Lead strategic initiatives to advance BCP maturity
Drive cross-functional alignment with the technology division to ensure alignment between disaster recovery and business continuity programs
Assist technology team in critical business process testing program including test script development, test coordination and reporting
Review and validate final technology reporting results from internal disaster recovery exercises, 3rd party vendors and service providers
Lead incident response efforts, making critical decisions and guiding executive teams through complex scenarios
Partner with lines of business on incident response tabletop exercises involving the incident response and executive management team
Deliver monthly metrics for executive management committee reporting task such as preparing risk appetite scorecard metrics for enterprise risk committee and monthly reporting to BRGC
Represent the organization in business continuity-related regulatory and audit discussions, provide documentation and follow-ups at meetings and promote program awareness through meeting, workshops, and exercises
Stay abreast of emerging Business Continuity industry standards and evolving regulatory expectations
Adhere to and ensure compliance of all business transactions with policy and process of the Bank Secrecy Act. Ensures compliance with all applicable state and federal laws, company procedures and policies. Maintains integrity and ethics in all actions and conversations with or regarding credit union members and their accounts; complies with Privacy Act directives
Qualification
Required
Serve as an advisor and leader to drive the organizational resilience, lead the second line of defense oversight of the Business Continuity Program (BCP)
Ensure the BCP is aligned with industry best practices and regulatory requirements including Business Impact Analyses (BIA) and Recovery Plan development, Critical Business Process Testing, Incident Response and 2nd Line Disaster Recovery Governance
Serve as the primary on-call individual for incident response and lead on discussions during regulatory exams as it relates to BCP and Incident Response
Lead the development and continuous improvement of BIA and recovery plans, ensure alignment with organizational priorities
Demonstrate judgement and critical thinking to business continuity tasks, challenging process tiering while balancing regulatory, financial, reputational risks and technology dependencies to support restoring
Evaluate and leverage internal recovery solutions and external vendor capabilities to ensure resilience of critical business processes
Lead strategic initiatives to advance BCP maturity
Drive cross-functional alignment with the technology division to ensure alignment between disaster recovery and business continuity programs
Assist technology team in critical business process testing program including test script development, test coordination and reporting
Review and validate final technology reporting results from internal disaster recovery exercises, 3rd party vendors and service providers
Lead incident response efforts, making critical decisions and guiding executive teams through complex scenarios
Partner with lines of business on incident response tabletop exercises involving the incident response and executive management team
Deliver monthly metrics for executive management committee reporting task such as preparing risk appetite scorecard metrics for enterprise risk committee and monthly reporting to BRGC
Represent the organization in business continuity-related regulatory and audit discussions, provide documentation and follow-ups at meetings and promote program awareness through meeting, workshops, and exercises
Stay abreast of emerging Business Continuity industry standards and evolving regulatory expectations
Adhere to and ensure compliance of all business transactions with policy and process of the Bank Secrecy Act
Ensures compliance with all applicable state and federal laws, company procedures and policies
Maintains integrity and ethics in all actions and conversations with or regarding credit union members and their accounts; complies with Privacy Act directives
Minimum - High School or Equivalent
Minimum - 10 Years of Business Continuity, Incident Response, Disaster Recovery, Project Management or related
Preferred
Preferred - 4 Years Bachelors Degree in Business Continuity, Technology, Business Management, Business Operations or related
Preferred - Business Continuity Certification, ISO 22301 Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP) or related
Benefits
Annual performance bonus
Work from home up to 3 days a week
Paid parental leave
Employee discount programs
Time off including paid personal and sick days
11 paid holidays
Education reimbursement
Company
Alliant Credit Union
Alliant Credit Union is an Illinois-chartered credit union.
501-1000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Mike Dobbins
Chief Executive Officer
Hector Crespo
SVP, Head of Marketing, Design, and Brand
Recent News
2026-01-06
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