Senior Business Continuity Analyst

Location: London

About Federated Hermes:

Federated Hermes, Inc. is a global leader in active, responsible investment management, with $845.7 billion in assets under management, as of August 1st, 2025. We deliver investment solutions that help investors target a broad range of outcomes and provide equity, fixed-income, alternative/private markets, multi-asset, and liquidity management strategies to more than 11,000 institutions and intermediaries worldwide.

Our clients include corporations, government entities, insurance companies, foundations and endowments, banks, and broker/dealers. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, Federated Hermes has more than 2,000 employees in London, New York and offices worldwide.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with assigned business units and GTO staff to perform analysis and recovery requirements elicitation for developing, maintaining, and testing response and recovery plans to ensure FHI can resume critical activities within business-identified time frames.
• Identify, reduce, eliminate, or escalate potential risks and vulnerabilities that could result from disrupting essential processes at any FHI office due to natural disasters, technical failures, third-party vendor failures, market disruptions, or human error.
• Engage in new, complicated project work and mentor less experienced business continuity analysts.
• Support BC Liaisons, Activators, and Plan Approvers to develop, review, update, and approve their business impact analysis and continuity plans.
• Develop user documentation to facilitate efficient input and maintenance within our software.
• Facilitate completion of Business Impact Analysis (BIA), ensuring that listed processes follow nomenclature guidelines, have an appropriately vetted impact analysis and maximum allowable downtime, identify required applications and vendors, and list an accurate dependency mapping.
• Collaborate with BC Liaisons, Activators, and GTO to understand business requirements as identified in the BIA and translate them into appropriate recovery strategies and test scenarios.
• Provide 24/7 support when a business disruption occurs.
• Assist the Director of Business Continuity and client-facing staff in responding to RFI/RFP and client due diligence questionnaires.
• Represent FHI and interact with industry peers at conferences and other business continuity-related organizations when appropriate.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree with Business Continuity or Risk Management certification.
• Minimum 4 - 10 years of experience, which includes exposure to risk management and disaster recovery principles, including 3 years of business continuity experience.
• Experience interacting with business partners to drive business continuity planning.
• Experience in performing requirements analysis and solid knowledge of methods and techniques to elicit and analyse business requirements.
• Financial services industry experience, including asset management.
• Proficiency in MS Office and related applications (PowerPoint, Excel, Word).
• Basic project management skills.

Diversity, Inclusion and Flexible Working:

We believe in genuine opportunity, fairness, and respect for all applicants and aim to ensure that no current or prospective employee is subject to discrimination or treated less favourably on the basis of their disability, gender identity or expression, race, ethnicity, religion or belief, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, age, sex, or sexual orientation, or disability. We understand that applicants may have different needs and expectations related to their working arrangements and are committed to a discussion on flexible working. We welcome applications from all eligible candidates, and we particularly encourage applications from qualified candidates who identify as women and/or are from a Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic background, as these groups are underrepresented throughout the financial services sector. We are a Disability Confident Employer and participate in the Offer of Interview scheme, intended to actively encourage applications from people with a disability or long-term condition and offer an interview to those who meet the minimum criteria set out within this job description. You do not need to share details of your disability or long-term condition.