We seek an experienced analyst to assist in the business continuity management (BCM) and resilience of GWAM's critical processes, ensuring Manulife meets its service commitments to customers and regulators.

This role involves developing and executing on strategies to protect essential services and operations.

By managing risk and fostering preparedness, this analyst will ensure our business segment thrives during challenges and maintains customer, stakeholder, and regulator trust.
**Position Responsibilities:**
**Vision and Strategy**
Assist in developing and executing a BCM and operational resilience strategy for GWAM to meet resilience objectives set by enterprise standard and regulator requirements.

Assist in continuously assessing and refining BCM, operational resilience strategies and execution approach through rigorous analysis and feedback, leveraging metrics and insights from execution to make informed improvements.

Establish collaborative relationship with cross-functional stakeholders to address issues and implement solutions.
**Critical Operations Identification, Assessment, and Improvements**
Assist in establishing and executing of GWAM's operational resilience governance model and deliverables.

Assist in continuously monitoring internal and external factors to re-evaluate inventory of critical operations and associated actions required.

Participate in analysis of critical operations including defining scope of critical operations, impact tolerance, end-to-end mapping of assets required for running of critical operations (people, location, technology, process, 3rd party), identify material points of failure, develop action plans to remediate vulnerabilities, and test readiness of critical operations through severe but plausible scenarios.

Partner with critical operations owners, Operational Resilience Office, and enable programs (TPRM, Disaster Recovery, etc) to align, execute, and monitor progress on remediation actions.

Assist in developing, tracking, and monitoring KPIs and KRIs on GWAM's operational resilience progress and posture.
**Maintain Robust Business Continuity Plan**
Assist in developing and maintaining GWAM's business continuity plans (BCP), improving completeness and quality of BCP for critical and non-critical processes.

Facilitate regular testing and simulation exercises to ensure the effectiveness and efficiency of BCPs.

Ensure BCPs are reflective of critical operations considerations, where applicable, including impact tolerance and material points of failure.
**Ensure Exit Plans for Critical Third Parties are Maintained and Tested**
Assist in the validation of critical third parties for GWAM as part of critical operations analysis.

Partner with third party relationship owners to develop and maintain exit plans for critical third parties.

Conduct simulation exercise to ensure the feasibility and effectiveness of exit plans.




**Preferred Qualifications:**
Bachelor's degree in business administration, strategy, operations management, or a related field.
2+ years of experience in Wealth and Asset Management,.

Prior experience in global role preferred.

Proven track record in working on complex, cross-functional, and time sensitive programs that meets business goals and regulatory expectations.

Strong communication and interpersonal skills.

Understanding of financial services' regulations and ability to partner with internal stakeholders, including Compliance and Risk functions.

Knowledge of discipline of operational resilience and business continuity risk management.

Experience with executing risk & control self assessments, simulation/scenario testing, process mapping, creating action plans, and identifying opportunities and risks within a business process.

Diligent in maintaining project plans, adhering to a timeline, escalating appropriately and documenting outcomes for reporting to senior stakeholders
Experience with risk management principles, best practices, and tools.
**When you join our team:**
We'll empower you to learn and grow the career you want.

We'll recognize and support you in a flexible setting where well-being and inclusion are more than just words.

As part of our global team, we'll support you in shaping the future you want to see.

The role being advertised is an existing vacancy.
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**Referenced Salary Location**
Waterloo, Ontario
**Modalidades de Trabajo**
Híbrido
**Salary range is expected to be between**
$70,500.00 CAD - $117,500.00 CAD
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📌 Analyst, GWAM & GA Operational Resilience (Waterloo)
🏢 Manulife
📍 Waterloo