Senior Business Continuity Analyst - 24 month FTC

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.

Main Function of the role:

Responsible for partnering 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. This includes identifying, reducing, eliminating, or escalating 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. The position demonstrates expertise in business continuity subject matter. The incumbent is expected to be available during non-business hours to address event response issues that may arise.

Key tasks and responsibilities:

• 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.
• Using the BIA as the basis, facilitate the completion of the BC Plan, ensuring a complete and accurate invocation recovery task list, applicable recovery strategies, and resources for each of the four recovery scenarios: Loss of Worksite, Loss of People, Loss of Application, Loss of Vendor.
• Provide 24/7 support when a business disruption occurs. Communicate to impacted parties.
• Drive creation and distribution of status updates to impacted parties.
• Serve back to more senior EBC staff to lead an event response.
• Conduct after-action reviews as directed.
• 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.

Experience Required:

• Experience working in or analysis of office operations with tight time constraints.
• Experience prioritising multiple tasks.
• Experience coordinating with public emergency responders, facilities managers, and recovery service providers.
• Project management experience.
• Bachelor’s degree with Business Continuity or Risk Management certification.

Minimum knowledge & experience required:

• Minimum 4 - 10 years of experience, which includes exposure to risk management and disaster recovery principles, which consists of 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.

Candidate Profile:

• Proficiency in MS Office and related applications (PowerPoint, Excel, Word).
• Cooperative attitude and practical interpersonal and communication skills (oral and written).
• Ability to multi-task and prioritise independently.
• Ability to plan and organize work effectively, including multi-tasking and prioritising tasks independently.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Customer service orientation.
• 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. Please raise these with your Recruitment contact to discuss what type of arrangements can work for you and the role for which you are applying.

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 will need to let us know if you would like to opt in to this scheme by contacting Jessica Sheehan at Jessica.sheehan@federatedhermes.com or +44 207 702 0888. You do not need to share details of your disability or long-term condition. If you would benefit from alternative methods of applying or for workplace adjustments during the recruitment process, please also let us know by contacting Jessica Sheehan at Jessica.sheehan@federatedhermes.com or +44 207 702 0888 to discuss the support you need.