DORA Program Manager and Integrated Testing

DORA Program Manager and Integrated Testing

The Americas Operational Resilience Department enables the bank to effectively manage business threats and mitigate the risk of disruptions. The department ensures the readiness of each entity as well as the ability to respond adequately to disruptive events, minimizing the impact on the delivery of the bank's critical operations.

The department addresses both Resilience Transformation and Resilience Operations. The transformation aspect encompasses resilience strategy, program execution, and the development of new capabilities across the organization. Meanwhile, resilience operations provide visibility and readiness in daily activities, including new product launches, continuity testing, and event or crisis management.

The functions performed span all lines of business and 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.

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 overseeing 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 :

• 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 :

Performance and Reporting :

Collaboration and engagement :

Qualifications :

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.

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.

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.