Senior Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Associate

Join a team that values your ambition and empowers your growth

At Corient, we help high- and ultra-high-net-worth individuals and families to enjoy a full life, while enabling them to preserve their wealth for future generations, and provide for the people, causes and communities they care about. We focus on exceeding expectations, simplifying lives, and establishing legacies that last for generations. We are always looking for talented and motivated individuals to join our team. If you want to work for a company that values your contributions and supports your growth, we would like to meet you.

Responsibilities 

Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

• Lead the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of the enterprise BC/DR program.

• Conduct Business Impact Analyses (BIA), Risk Assessments (RA), and Continuity of Operations Planning (COOP).

• Liaise with key stakeholders to ensure ongoing Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) alignment with business impact and system criticality

• Facilitate Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP), testing, and exercises to validate recovery capabilities.

• Define strategies to ensure resilience with critical SaaS dependencies

• Educate stakeholders on BC/DR procedures and ensure organizational readiness for crisis scenarios.

• Facilitate interconnectivity between incident response and BC/DR plans and testing activities to ensure that cybersecurity scenarios are adequately contemplated.

Information Security Governance

• Enhance and maintain the Information Security Policy Framework, ensuring alignment with regulatory requirements and industry standards (e.g., NIST CSF, ISO 27001, NIS2, DORA, CIS, etc.).

• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure policies are understood, adopted, and enforced across the organization.

Compliance & Controls

• Ensure adoption and operationalization of a control framework aimed at maintaining compliance with key frameworks and regulatory requirements

• Perform security compliance framework assessments and control narrative creation

• Conduct control testing, identify deficiencies, and drive remediation efforts.

Risk Management

• Maintain the enterprise Information Security Risk Register and perform periodic and ad hoc risk assessments.

• Support risk treatment planning and ensure alignment with the organization’s risk appetite.

• Perform third party risk assessments and ongoing oversight activities.

Security Awareness & Culture

• Promote a security-first mindset across the organization.

• Contribute to the development and delivery of security awareness programs.

Qualifications & Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience; relevant certifications preferred (e.g., CBCP, MBCP, MBCI, FBCI)

• 3-6+ years’ experience in cybersecurity, GRC, and/or BC/DR roles, ideally within financial services.

• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills and the ability to organize work in a logical, thorough, and succinct manner. 

• Highly self-motivated, results-orientated, and self-directed to handle multiple ongoing tasks. 

• Flexibility to adapt to changing assignments and ability to effectively prioritize. 

• Effective written and verbal English communication at all levels. 

• Demonstrated ability to operate and innovate in a small team with a fast‐paced environment, balancing both strategic and tactical needs. 

This position description is intended to provide a general overview of the expectations and responsibilities of this position and may not include all tasks that may be assigned. As the nature of business demands change, so may the functions of this position. Additional duties and responsibilities may be assigned with or without notice.

Pay Information

This position is exempt and is paid according to the laws of the State of Illinois. The pay range for this position is $125,000 - 160,000 USD per year. We are required to provide a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. This range considers the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to experience, skills, knowledge, abilities, education, licensure and certifications, and other business and organizational needs. It is not typical for an individual to be offered a salary at or near the top of the range for a position. Salary offers are determined based on final candidate qualifications and experience.

Physical Requirements

• This position requires the physical capabilities to work in an office environment, which may include prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer. Corient seeks to make reasonable accommodations that enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential duties when possible.

• This position may require the ability to lift up to 15 pounds.

• This position is required to work onsite 4 days per week.

U.S. Eligibility Requirements

• Must be 18 years of age or older.

• Must have unrestricted work authorization to work in the United States. For U.S. employment opportunities, Corient hires U.S. citizens or permanent residents. Exceptions to these requirements will be determined based on shortage of qualified candidates with a particular skill. Corient will require proof of work authorization.

• Corient participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. If E-Verify cannot confirm that you are authorized to work, this employer is required to give you written instructions and an opportunity to contact Department of Homeland Security (DHS) or Social Security Administration (SSA) so you can begin to resolve the issue before the employer can take any action against you, including terminating your employment. Employers can only use E-Verify once you have accepted a job offer and completed the Form I-9.

• Must be willing to execute Corient’s Employee Agreement or Confidentiality and Non-Disclosure Agreement, which require, among other things, post-employment obligations relating to non-solicitation, confidentiality, and non-disclosure.

What You Can Expect from Us

Our dedication to the Employee Experience at Corient is aimed at supporting, empowering, and inspiring our talented team through:

• 401(k) Plan with Employer Matching 

• Four Medical Plan options that is generously subsidized by Corient

• Employer paid Dental, Vision & Life and AD&D Insurance 

• Employer paid Short-term & Long-term Disability  

• Paid Maternity & Parental Leave 

• Flexible Spending Accounts & Health Savings Accounts

• Dependent Care FSA 

• Commuter & Transit FSA 

• Corporate Discount Program - Perkspot 

• Training Reimbursement  

• Paid Professional Designations  

• Giving back to the community - Volunteer days

Corient is one of the fastest-growing wealth management platforms in the United States. We have over 40 offices located across the country that serve more than 15,000 clients and manage over $220 billion in client assets. We combine a boutique’s personal service, creativity and objective advice with the extensive resources and vast intellectual capital of an innovative industry leader to create a profoundly different wealth management experience for our clients.

Full participation of all employees in a safe, healthy and respectful environment is key to individual and company success. We are committed to fully utilizing the abilities of all our employees and expect each of our employees to honor this commitment in their daily responsibilities.

We are an equal opportunity employer. All candidates will be recruited and, if applicable, selected and employed without regard to sex, race, religion, marital status, veteran status, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, color, creed, ancestry, disability, genetic information or any other basis prohibited by law.

This position description is intended to provide a general overview of the expectations and responsibilities of this position and may not include all tasks that may be assigned. As the nature of business demands change, so may the functions of this position. Additional duties and responsibilities may be assigned with or without notice.

Corient refers to the separate but affiliated entities under common control of Corient Holdings Inc. Client assets include all assets of Corient Holdings Inc., including majority- and minority-owned businesses.