Senior Manager Business Resilience & Continuity Sydney or Melbourne | Hybrid | Permanent

Build resilience across a growing, technology-led organisation.

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

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.

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.

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 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

Develop and continuously improve the organisation’s business resilience and continuity strategy

Establish consistent approaches to Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery and crisis preparedness

Work with business leaders to identify and understand critical services and operational dependencies

Assess the potential impact of major business disruptions and establish appropriate resilience measures

Lead resilience testing, scenario exercises and crisis simulations

Identify weaknesses across technology, people, processes, data and external suppliers

Work closely with procurement and risk teams to strengthen third-party resilience

Develop meaningful reporting and metrics for senior leadership and governance forums





Provide expert guidance during audits, assurance reviews and regulatory engagementsPartner with Technology and Cyber Security teams to ensure business and technology resilience are aligned

Drive greater resilience awareness and accountability across the organisation

What we’re looking for 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

Significant experience developing or leading enterprise resilience programs

Background within financial services, fintech, technology, SaaS, insurance or another highly regulated environment

Strong understanding of Australian regulatory expectations, particularly APRA CPS 230

Experience working with critical services, business impact assessments and resilience planning

Strong knowledge of business continuity and disaster recovery principles

Experience running scenario-based testing and crisis exercises

Understanding of supplier, outsourcing and third-party resilience

Confidence engaging with senior executives and influencing stakeholders across a complex organisation

Experience supporting internal audit, external audit or regulatory reviews

Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills

Relevant certifications such as CBCP, MBCI, CRISC, CISM or similar would be advantageous.

The opportunity This is an prospect 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.

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

📌 Senior Resilience (Melbourne)
🏢 Latitude IT
📍 Melbourne