DORA Program Manager and Integrated Testing

corporate functions across the Americas region to mitigate risks and disruptions through an efficient and sustainable framework, effectively reducing risk and enabling Mizuho to meet growing business expectations and regulatory requirements.**

Operational Resilience Practitioner
As part of Mizuho Americas' ongoing efforts to building a more resilient organization, we are seeking an Operational Resilience practitioner to join our team. This individual will play a critical role in enhancing the firm's ability to prepare for, respond to, and recover from disruptions to business operations.
The successful candidate will contribute to the various layers of the Operational Resilience Program, from oversighting DORA regulatory program, supporting the Critical and Important Functions resilience, to ensuring efficient testing strategy and its execution. This role will support the bank to maintain a transparent view on real resilience abilities with a robust testing program. This role will work in close partnership with the pillars' teams to ensure the program's effective evaluation of its maturity, aligned with regulatory expectations and industry's best practices.
The new team member will be responsible for supporting the compliance program on DORA, the management of the transformation as well as the integrated framework rollout across the organization, with a strong emphasis on the "integrated testing program."

Key Responsibilities
Program management

• Manage the DORA transformations successful execution, including the management of the portfolio of initiatives and remediations.

• Manage the program governance and control framework.

• Coordinate the initiatives across the teams and organization.

• Track the risk mitigation and test the remediation plan completion.

• Ensure regulatory reporting processes are properly enforced, and ROI maintained.

• Manage the escalation governance.

• Monitor and report on the progress and completion of regular and ad-hoc projects.

• Work closely with various teams to assess and identify project goals, steps, and timelines.

Integrated Testing and Oversight

• Execute a comprehensive testing program across the scenario catalog to evaluate the bank's resilience posture, identify structural vulnerabilities, and identify opportunities for enhancement.

• Coordinate and centralize the different tests and exercises performed across the organization to feed the concentration risk evaluation.

• Conduct resilience assessment initiatives-including simulations, tabletop exercises, and scenario analyses-to validate the effectiveness of business continuity, disaster recovery, third-party, and technology resilience capabilities in alignment with defined risk appetites.

Performance and Reporting:

• Maintain and update dashboards and key performance indicators (KPIs) related to regulatory compliance and testing.

• Collaborate with operational resilience pillars to assess compliance with established capability baselines and risk thresholds.

• Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.

• Maintain alignment with internal policies and standards, ensuring consistency with evolving market practices and regulatory expectations.

Collaboration and engagement:

• Collaborate with key stakeholders across IT, Risk, Operations, Legal, Compliance, and other functions, serving as a trusted advisor and providing constructive challenge and oversight of resilience-related plans and initiatives.

• Foster a collaborative, results-driven environment that emphasizes continuous improvement and shared accountability.

• Support the Head of Operational Resilience in building and developing a high-performing, enterprise-wide operational resilience team.

• Support audit preparation, coordination and preparation of the answers and evidence packages.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in information technology, Business Administration, Operational Resilience, Cybersecurity, or Finance; an advanced degree is strongly preferred.

• Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience within the financial services, insurance, or investment management sectors, with an understanding of Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB) operations.

• Deep understanding of regulatory requirements and supervisory expectations related to operational resilience, including:

  • DORA
  • UK Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) requirements
  • Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) Principles for Operational Resilience
  • U.S. Federal Reserve, OCC, and FDIC guidelines

• Demonstrated experience in Operational Resilience, IT continuity, including the execution of testing and exercises, development of preparedness artifacts, and facilitation of post-incident reviews.

• Familiarity with key components of operational resilience programs, including integrated testing, and crisis response.

• Ability to perform effectively under pressure, managing crises and operational disruptions with a structured, strategic, and composed approach.

• Ability to drive several projects and initiatives in parallel.

The expected base salary ranges from $104,000.00. - $210,000.00. Salary offers are based on a wide range of factors including relevant skills, training, experience, education, and, where applicable, certifications and licenses obtained. Market and organizational factors are also considered. In addition to salary and a generous employee benefits package, including Medical, Dental and 401K plans, successful candidates are also eligible to receive a discretionary bonus.

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Other requirements

Mizuho has in place a hybrid working program, with varying opportunities for remote work depending on the nature of the role, needs of your department, as well as local laws and regulatory obligations. Roles in some of our departments have greater in-office requirements that will be communicated to you as part of the recruitment process

Company Overview

Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. is the 15th largest bank in the world as measured by total assets of ~$2 trillion. Mizuho's 60,000 employees worldwide offer comprehensive financial services to clients in 35 countries and 800 offices throughout the Americas, EMEA and Asia. Mizuho Americas is a leading provider of corporate and investment banking services to clients in the US, Canada, and Latin America. Through its acquisition of Greenhill, Mizuho provides M&A, restructuring and private capital advisory capabilities across Americas, Europe and Asia. Mizuho Americas employs approximately 3,500 professionals, and its capabilities span corporate and investment banking, capital markets, equity and fixed income sales & trading, derivatives, FX, custody and research. Visit https://www.mizuhoamericas.com .

Mizuho Americas offers a competitive total rewards package.

We are an EEO/AA Employer - M/F/Disability/Veteran.

We participate in the E-Verify program.

We maintain a drug-free workplace and reserve the right to require pre- and post-hire drug testing as permitted by applicable law.

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