Job Description

Senior Manager Business Resilience & Continuity n

Sydney or Melbourne | Hybrid | Permanent

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Build resilience across a growing, technology-led organisation.

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We’re working with a well-established technology business to appoint a Senior Manager, Business Resilience & Continuity.

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This is a newly significant leadership opportunity for a resilience specialist who can bring together business continuity, crisis preparedness, technology resilience and third-party risk into a cohesive enterprise-wide capability.

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You’ll work across the organisation to understand where critical services and dependencies sit, identify potential points of failure and ensure the business is prepared to respond when disruption occurs.

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This is a role for someone who enjoys operating strategically while still being close enough to the detail to make things happen.

What you’ll be doing n

You’ll take ownership of the organisation’s resilience and continuity agenda, working with senior stakeholders across Risk, Technology, Security and the wider business.

Your responsibilities will include n

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- Develop and continuously improve the organisation’s business resilience and continuity strategy
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- Establish consistent approaches to Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery and crisis preparedness
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- Work with business leaders to identify and understand critical services and operational dependencies
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- Assess the potential impact of major business disruptions and establish appropriate resilience measures
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- Lead resilience testing, scenario exercises and crisis simulations
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- Identify weaknesses across technology, people, processes, data and external suppliers
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- Work closely with procurement and risk teams to strengthen third-party resilience
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- Develop meaningful reporting and metrics for senior leadership and governance forums
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- Provide expert guidance during audits, assurance reviews and regulatory engagements
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- Partner with Technology and Cyber Security teams to ensure business and technology resilience are aligned
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- Drive greater resilience awareness and accountability across the organisation
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What we’re looking for n

We’re looking for someone who has already operated at a senior level within business resilience, operational resilience, business continuity, disaster recovery or crisis management.

You’ll ideally have n

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- Significant experience developing or leading enterprise resilience programs
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- Background within financial services, fintech, technology, SaaS, insurance or another highly regulated environment
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- Strong understanding of Australian regulatory expectations, particularly APRA CPS 230
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- Experience working with critical services, business impact assessments and resilience planning
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- Strong knowledge of business continuity and disaster recovery principles
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- Experience running scenario-based testing and crisis exercises
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- Understanding of supplier, outsourcing and third-party resilience
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- Confidence engaging with senior executives and influencing stakeholders across a complex organisation
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- Experience supporting internal audit, external audit or regulatory reviews
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- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
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- Relevant certifications such as CBCP, MBCI, CRISC, CISM or similar would be advantageous.
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The opportunity n

This is an opportunity to take ownership of a high-profile resilience agenda within a technology-led organisation and have a genuine impact on how the business prepares for, responds to and recovers from major disruption.

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You’ll have significant exposure to senior stakeholders and the prospect to shape the organisation's approach rather than simply maintain an existing framework.

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📌 Senior Resilience & Continuity Manager (Sydney)
🏢 Latitude IT
📍 Sydney