Business Continuity Manager

Join our team as a Business Continuity Manager and play a crucial role in ensuring our organization’s resilience and preparedness, while driving innovative strategies to safeguard our operations and support our mission in a dynamic and collaborative environment. 

Overview 

Horizon Farm Credit is actively seeking a Business Continuity Manager to join our team. Qualified candidate may work in any available Horizon Farm Credit branch. To view locations, click here Locations | Horizon Farm Credit . This position is eligible for hybrid work schedule. Our ideal candidate has a strong understanding of the organization’s priorities and how the failure of internal and external dependencies including IT infrastructure and the third-party ecosystem would impact service delivery. 

Position Description: Join HFC as our Business Continuity Manager and lead the charge in optimizing our Business Continuity program. In this pivotal role, you will be responsible for developing, implementing, maintaining, managing, governing, and facilitating an enterprise-wide Business Continuity Program (BCP) from all types of business disruption threats (natural, technical, geopolitical, accidental, workforce, supplier, pandemic, etc.) across the organization. You will also be responsible for ensuring that the organization can monitor and manage threats and risks to availability, respond, recover and restore effectively in line with Association priorities. In this position, you will effectively work with the enterprise to analyze potential risks and losses and design, test and implement recovery plans.

 Key Responsibilities

As the Business Continuity Manager at HFC, you will:

• Maintain HFC’s Business Continuity Program that ensures operational resiliency, aligned with association’s risk tolerances, and compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Conducts risk assessments and business impact analyses to identify vulnerabilities and potential threats.
• Develops and tests emergency and contingency plans, ensuring the Association can swiftly resume normal operations after major disasters or disruptions.
• Collaborate with business/operational teams to develop individual department recovery plans., ensuring completeness and realism, while mentoring other through business recovery scenarios. 
• Work with other departments to ensure alignment and readiness across the organization.
• Support internal audits and regulatory exams related to business continuity planning.
• Implement organization-wide training and communication related to business continuity.

REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor’s degree in IT, Business Administration, or related field. 
• Generally, 3 or more years of experience in developing or coordinating Business Continuity/ Disaster Recovery function.
• Preferred certifications include – CBCP – Certified Business Continuity Professional.  
• Ability to plan and coordinate day-to-day contingency planning operations, system/database, administration, and network operations.
• Strong organizational skills for planning and prioritizing work.
• Works well independently and as part of a team.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to express technical information in a non-technical manner.
• Ability to write logical and comprehensible procedures and forms
• Excellent oral and written communication skills for communicating to management, internal audit and user community.
• Ability to identify regulatory compliance gaps within internal guidance (policies and procedures).
• Strong attention to detail and able to multi-task.
• Strong problem-solving skills, project management skills, and the ability to adapt to a changing work environment and work independently.
• Adaptable and flexible to a changing work environment.
• Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
• Ability to travel to/from HFC branch offices, associations, AgFirst or other facilities as deemed necessary.
• Regular, predictable, and reliable attendance is required.

Who are we?

Horizon Farm Credit is an expert in agriculture, with over 100 years of serving rural America. As a premier rural lender, we're constantly growing and seeking new members for our team. As part of the Horizon Farm Credit team, you have the opportunity to make a difference for agriculture and rural communities. 

What can we offer you?

We offer competitive compensation and benefits packages for full-time employees including: 

• Medical insurance with dental and vision care options
• 401 (k) with significant employer matching
• Paid time off, holidays and volunteer time to support work/life balance
• Tuition reimbursement and training opportunities
• Student loan reimbursement 
• Leadership and career development opportunities
• Paid maternity and bonding leave
• Paid short term disability
• Fun and inclusive work environment

Salary range: $93,000 -$116,300 depending on experience.  

Equal Opportunity Employer including veterans and individuals with disabilities.

Salary : $93,000 - $116,300