Senior Business Continuity Specialist – M/F/D

Société Générale Global Solution Center Poland is a new, growing area of the SG Warsaw Branch, and we are currently looking for a Senior Business Continuity Specialist.

If you are looking for a challenging and rewarding opportunity to further grow your career, we encourage you to apply for this exciting role.

Desired start date: as soon as possible

Your future scope of responsibility will cover:

• Establish and maintain the Business Continuity framework for GBTO in London
• Co-ordinate and support departments in the delivery of their business continuity plans (e.g. user tests and exercises, plan templates)
• Manage dedicated internal and third-party business recovery facilities
• Develop and maintain the crisis management framework and arrangements including exercises
• Seek opportunities to improve, enhance or innovate the BCM framework and response
• Horizon scanning for existing, new or emerging threats and amending, updating or developing plans accordingly
• Proactively mitigate potential risks, ensuring that they act within the best interest of the Company and its clients
• Engage and work in collaboration with colleagues to reach a common goal to find solutions, ensuring adherence to Société Générale policies and procedures
• Recognise established policies and resolve and propose solutions to adapt situations or ideas for improvement
• Show pro-activity in the development of professional competences, deliverables and contributions to compliment needs and goals of the Company
• Raise awareness and foster Business Continuity Management culture within GBTO
• Liaise with essential third-party suppliers, including offshored and outsourced, for assessment of their business continuity plans
• Co-ordinate with the Information Technology areas to support the execution of the IT DR strategy and testing
• Manage the performance of team/reports, if applicable, ensuring staff have clear pre-set objectives and get regular feedback on their performance
• Provide leadership, direction, advice and guidance to the team if and as applicable, thus maintaining high levels of integrity, motivation and morale

You will be best suited for this role if:

• Minimum 5-6 years of experience within business continuity area
• Excellent interpersonal skills; to be able to communicate convincingly at all levels with the key decision makers in the relevant business lines and elsewhere within the investment bank
• Proficiency in English
• Strong written documentation abilities
• Coordination skills (across and between the support functions and the business)
• Understanding of Investment Banking market activities
• Compliant with confidentiality requirements
• Ability to work autonomously and be responsible for following matters through to completion
• Solution-focused, service-oriented and proactive
• Team player, enjoy sharing information
• Have a strong risk culture and reliable professional conduct
• Openness to work in UK working hours and sometimes be on call 24/7

Société Générale Poland is a multi-category bank offering every employee the possibility to have several careers in a professional career path. Internal mobility and training are two core areas we focus on, in a dynamic, prosperous and evolving context.

Your future with Société Générale will include:

• Work in a pleasant atmosphere, in a brand new central-Warsaw office, as part of an international team
• Active role in an international structure and opportunity for development
• Work in a pleasant atmosphere, in a dynamic environment
• Support in quick adaptation within the company
• Employment contract and stability
• Competitive salary based on seniority and skills
• Extensive health package with dental care
• Hybrid work (2 or 3 days per week) and one-time bonus to equip your home office
• Access to learning platforms and language courses
• Even more benefits, such as meal allowance, holiday fund, and sport card

At Société Générale, we are convinced that people are drivers of change, and that the world of tomorrow will be shaped by all their initiatives, from the smallest to the most ambitious.

Whether you’re joining us for a period of months, years or your entire career, together we can have a positive impact on the future. Creating, daring, innovating and taking action are part of our DNA.

If you too want to be directly involved, grow in a stimulating and caring environment, feel useful on a daily basis and develop or strengthen your expertise, you will feel right at home with us!

Still hesitating?

You should know that our employees can dedicate several days per year to solidarity actions during their working hours, including sponsoring people struggling with their orientation or professional integration, participating in the financial education of young apprentices, and sharing their skills with charities. There are many ways to get involved.