Senior Manager Business Continuity

Interested? Keep on reading to find out a bit more about what you will be doing, and the type of person that we are looking for.

A role you will love

As a Senior Manager Business Continuity, you will be responsible for supporting and overseeing first line businesses in their management of operational resilience, including but not limited to Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery.

Furthermore, you will work collaboratively across teams within the department, supporting continuous improvement and project related activity related to the role.

Although the role will be based in either Bristol or Edinburgh, you will be responsible for supporting and overseeing CPU business lines which operate in the UK and the US.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Accountable for independent support and oversight for Business Resilience, acting as a challenging partner to UK and US business lines.
• Support and oversee the implementation and ongoing management of the CPU Business Resilience Framework as well as understand and oversee regulatory requirements in each region. (FCA requirements for operational resilience in the UK).
• Manage and respond to information security, BCP and risk-related enquiries from Computershare clients and regulators.
• Supporting and overseeing the business in their identification of key and critical business processes.
• Ensuring that the Major Incident Management Policy has been implemented adequately to ensure that CPU businesses can recover from major disruptions.
• Partnering with colleagues within the Global Risk Group to ensure that processes in the GRC tool remain adequate and fit for purpose for all business resilience planning and execution activity.

What will you bring to the role?

The position requires prior experience in risk advisory, as well as legal, audit and compliance experience within a global organization. You will fully understand Business resilience and associated practices (supporting development of Business Impact Assessments (BIA), Business Continuity planning, Disaster Recovery, critical process identification, recovery strategy development, coordinating and conducting exercises, incident management, Key Risk Indicator (KRI) identification, monitoring, tracking, reporting), and will facilitate the development of an appropriate risk strategy aligned with corporate strategy.

Other experience and key skills:

• A successful track record as a risk manager with good knowledge of the operational and regulatory complexities impacting the business from a strategic, operational and change management perspectives.
• A broad understanding across enterprise risk, operational risk, financial and IT risk.
• Gravitas and the capability to provide constructive challenge to the business and ensure risks are addressed appropriately.
• Strong analytical thinking and communication skills including the ability to research and understand complex processes and effectively communicate them to senior management.
• Good stakeholder and relationship management skills.
• Personal integrity, the ability to lead a small team (project basis) and take leadership of specific tasks and activities.
• Self-starter with the ability to deliver under pressure.

Rewards designed for you

Flexible work to help you find the best balance between work and lifestyle.

Health and wellbeing rewards that can be tailored to support you and your family.

Invest in our business by setting aside salary to purchase shares in our company, and you'll receive a company contribution as well.

Extra rewards ranging from recognition awards and team get togethers to helping you invest in your future.

And more. Ours is a welcoming and close-knit community, with experienced colleagues ready to help you grow. Our careers hub will help you find out more about our rewards and life at Computershare, visit computershare.com/careershub.

ABOUT US

A company to be proud of

We're a global leader in financial administration with over 12,000 employees across more than 22 different countries. At Computershare, it's more than just a job, our open and inclusive culture means that we will help you to grow, to move forward and make the most of our world of opportunities.

Fairness and culture

We're dedicated to providing you with the opportunity to succeed on your own merits, starting from the application process and continuing throughout your career with us. Our goal is to create an environment where everyone feels valued, to remove barriers and obstacles and ensure equal opportunities for all. For support with accommodations or adjustments during our recruitment process please visit computershare.com/access for further information.

ABOUT THE TEAM

Our Shared Services teams support all of our business lines behind the scenes. Across the world, we have a range of specialisms that ensure the delivery of our business priorities. These include Technology, Information Security, Finance, Risk, Audit, Governance, Marketing and Communications as well as our People team. Join our strategic team and help us look after everything from creating an amazing end to end employee journey to keeping our systems safe. You'll be looking after our people, our clients and their customers, whilst maintaining our exceptional standards around the globe.

Client-provided location(s): Bristol, United Kingdom, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Job ID: Computershare-8712

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2025-07-22T11:39:02