Business Continuity Analyst

Ashurst LLP is seeking a Business Continuity Analyst for its Sydney office. The role focuses on maintaining Business Continuity Plans and ISO23001 accreditation, supporting Incident Management Teams in the APAC region. Candidates should possess strong organizational and communication skills, critical thinking abilities, and a professional approach. Ashurst offers flexible work options, extensive career development opportunities, and a commitment to social impact and sustainability.
Ashurst is a leading global law firm with a determination to go beyond the ordinary by outpacing change. We have a community of 4800+ people across over 30 offices globally and are a trusted adviser to top corporates, financial institutions and governments. What sets us apart is our ambition for our people and our clients.

What makes Ashurst a great place to work?
• Flexible work options
• Market leading parental leave of 26 weeks paid leave irrespective of gender
• Health and wellbeing benefits, gym membership and corporate health plans
• Genuine opportunities to grow your career through secondments or global opportunities,
• Extensive Learning & Development opportunities including tailored professional development for all employees, coaching, mentoring and study support for further education.
• We have a strong commitment to social impact, demonstrated by our extensive volunteering and pro-bono opportunities, as well as our award-winning social inclusion and mobility programs.
• We are committed to reaching net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

The Opportunity

At Ashurst, Risk Management is at the core of the commercial and strategic decision making we undertake as a firm. We are committed to implementing and embedding an enterprise-wide approach to Risk Management to support and drive the ambitions outlined in our 2027 strategy.

We have an exciting opportunity for an Analyst to join our Risk Governance Directorate, which is focused on improving our ability to leverage risk information and best practice by creating streamlined frameworks to demonstrate quality assured services, learn from incidents and high impact events which trigger our business and digital continuity response, ensuring the sustainability of our global firm (for ourselves and our clients).

The Business Continuity Analyst will support the maintenance of our Business Continuity Plans and ISO23001 accreditation, acting as the main coordination point in the APAC region for training and support for Incident Management Teams when plans are invoked.

Reporting to the Glasgow based Global Business Continuity Manager, this role can be based at any of our Australia offices.

A full job description including a breakdown of responsibilities can be found attached to the role on our careers page http://careers.ashurst.com/

We are interested in hearing from people who have:
• Strong organisational skills, demonstrating effective planning and prioritisation.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to effectively communicate with senior stakeholders.
• A professional approach, demonstrative resilience in the context of continuous change and tight deadlines.
• Critical thinking skills, with a methodical approach and high attention to detail.

We value diverse perspectives at Ashurst, so even if you don't feel you meet all of the requirements, we still encourage you to apply.

For more information or if you require any support and adjustments to participate equitably in our recruitment process or in the workplace, we encourage you to contact: globalresourcing@ashurst.com for a confidential conversation.

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply directly to Ashurst. We prefer to talk with you personally and are not accepting applications from recruitment agencies.

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