CFGI is an independent accounting advisory firm that works with CFOs and finance teams on complex financial, operational, and strategic challenges. Its services span technical and operational accounting, capital markets and transaction advisory, strategic finance, analytics, ESG and sustainability reporting, tax and valuation, risk and compliance, cybersecurity, forensic accounting, and business transformation. CFGI serves organizations across business services, financial services, healthcare, life sciences, and manufacturing, helping them strengthen finance operations, manage change, and make informed decisions as their businesses evolve.
Senior Manager, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery - Hybrid, United States | CFGI
Lead business continuity, disaster recovery, and cyber resilience advisory engagements for CFGI’s private equity and corporate clients. Build recovery strategies, testing programs, and long-term resilience roadmaps.
Description
- Lead business continuity, disaster recovery, operational resilience, and crisis management engagements from initial scope through executive reporting.
- Perform Business Impact Analyses, dependency mapping, critical process assessments, and RTO/RPO reviews.
- Design and implement BCM governance programs, policies, standards, recovery plans, crisis management frameworks, and multi-year resilience roadmaps.
- Evaluate third-party and vendor resilience capabilities and incorporate continuity requirements into risk management programs.
- Assess recovery capabilities across cloud, infrastructure, networks, applications, data platforms, and cybersecurity environments.
- Evaluate backup, replication, high-availability, failover, and recovery architectures against business requirements.
- Review technical recovery documentation, runbooks, architecture diagrams, testing results, and supporting evidence.
- Assess cyber recovery capabilities, including ransomware recovery strategies, immutable backups, recovery vaults, and segregated recovery environments.
- Support M&A, carve-outs, integrations, and resilience transformation initiatives for portfolio companies.
- Design and facilitate tabletop exercises, crisis simulations, and disaster recovery tests with executive and technical stakeholders.
- Develop exercise scenarios, after-action reports, lessons-learned analyses, and prioritized remediation plans.
- Define and report resilience KPIs, recovery performance, testing effectiveness, and material risks.
- Support business development through proposal writing, SOW development, client presentations, solution design, and effort estimation.
- Mentor team members while providing engagement leadership, quality oversight, and disciplined delivery.
- Contribute to resilience methodologies, accelerators, templates, and thought leadership.
Requirements
- At least eight years of relevant experience in business continuity, disaster recovery, operational resilience, technology risk, cyber resilience, or consulting.
- Demonstrated experience designing and implementing enterprise business continuity management and disaster recovery programs.
- Extensive experience with Business Impact Analysis, recovery planning, crisis management, dependency mapping, resilience governance, and validating disaster recovery capabilities through testing and evidence review.
- Working knowledge of cloud platforms, enterprise infrastructure, networks, applications, backup technologies, and cybersecurity operations.
- Familiarity with ISO 22301, NIST SP 800-34, FFIEC, and other applicable continuity and resilience frameworks.
- Experience leading cyber recovery, ransomware preparedness, regulatory readiness, or operational resilience initiatives.
- Experience supporting private equity portfolio companies, highly regulated industries, or complex global organizations.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to produce and present executive-level deliverables.
- Proven ability to lead teams, manage multiple workstreams, and deliver effectively in a client-facing consulting environment.
- Certifications such as CBCP, MBCI, CDRE, CISSP, CISM, CRISC, PMP, or comparable credentials.
- Experience with Azure Site Recovery, AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery, Rubrik, Cohesity, Veeam, Commvault, Zerto, or comparable technologies.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation.
- Benefits package.
- Career growth opportunities.
- Collaborative culture with autonomy, flexibility, and strong leadership support.
- High-impact work with sophisticated clients and private equity portfolio companies.
- Exposure to executive leadership teams, boards of directors, and private equity sponsors.