Expert Business Impact Analysis

Job Title: Expert Business Impact Analysis

Location: Oakland, CA

Pay Rate: $40 - $65 per hour, W2

Duration: 14+ Month Contract - Temp To Perm

Work Mode: Onsite as needed

Summary:

• Conduct Business Impact Analysis assessments and recovery requirements analysis across critical business and technology functions.
• Partner with business leaders, application teams, architects, cybersecurity, disaster recovery, and continuity stakeholders.
• Evaluate operational impacts, identify critical dependencies, establish recovery requirements, and support enterprise resilience initiatives.
• Lead complex assessments, facilitate stakeholder engagements, and deliver actionable recommendations.

Responsibilities:

• Lead enterprise-wide Business Impact Analysis (BIA) projects and assessments.
• Facilitate workshops with business leaders, application owners, architects, and technology teams.
• Evaluate financial, operational, customer, regulatory, safety, and reputational impacts.
• Determine and document Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs), Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs), Maximum Tolerable Downtime (MTD), and recovery priorities.
• Analyze end-to-end business processes, application dependencies, infrastructure dependencies, and third-party service relationships.
• Lead large-scale resilience, disaster recovery, cyber recovery, and operational readiness initiatives.
• Develop project plans, schedules, milestones, executive communications, and status reporting.
• Manage project risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, and remediation activities.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams to ensure successful project delivery.
• Translate BIA findings into actionable recovery and resiliency recommendations.
• Partner with Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity, Cyber Recovery, and Infrastructure teams.
• Support application recoverability assessments and recovery prioritization activities.
• Evaluate critical business services and supporting technology capabilities.
• Recommend process improvements, automation opportunities, and governance enhancements.
• Maintain BIA methodologies, standards, procedures, templates, and governance processes.
• Support internal audits, regulatory reviews, compliance initiatives, and resilience assessments.
• Develop executive dashboards, metrics, reports, and presentations for senior leadership.
• Serve as the enterprise BIA subject matter expert and trusted advisor.
• Build relationships with business leaders, technology organizations, risk management, cybersecurity, emergency preparedness, and continuity teams.
• Present findings, recommendations, roadmap activities, and risk assessments to leadership.
• Coach and educate stakeholders on resilience planning methodologies, standards, and best practices.