Country Head of BCIM
A renowned financial institution is looking for a Country Head of Business Continuity and Incident Management. The selected candidate will lead BCM, incident response, and operational resilience programs while ensuring regulatory compliance and risk control effectiveness. This is a hybrid role.
Responsibilities:
- Lead BCM, MIM, and BCIM lifecycle controls ensuring compliance with policies and regulations
- Oversee business continuity planning, testing, and recovery site readiness across functions
- Manage major incident response, escalation, and stakeholder communications
- Drive operational resilience initiatives including IBS mapping, scenario testing, and risk assessments
- Monitor risk environment, resolve control issues, and ensure timely reporting and remediation
- Build stakeholder relationships, lead governance forums, and strengthen team capability and collaboration
Requirements:
- Experience in risk or control management
- Prior experience in managing incidents, training senior executives and facilitating crisis exercises
- Proven experience of working in highly regulated and complex international organisations
- Background in managing a Business Continuity & Incident Management Programs
- Knowledge of the local business and threat environment
- Familiarity with the BCIM Lifecycle, Program and MIM
- Understanding of global and local BCIM requirements
- Business level Japanese and English
About the Company:
A long-standing financial institution with over a century of history, this company operates a multinational network of tens of thousands of employees and provides a variety of banking services to corporations and individuals around the world.
Keywords:
金融, 金融業, 銀行, 投資,ファイナンス, 求人, 外資系
Job Ref: GVAW2K
About the job
Contract Type: Perm
Specialism: Banking & Financial Services
Focus: Corporate governance
Industry: Financial Services
Salary: ¥10,000,000 - ¥15,000,000 per annum
Workplace Type: Hybrid
Experience Level: Senior Management
Language: Japanese - Professional working
Second Language: English - Business level
Location: Tokyo
FULL_TIMEJob Reference: GVAW2K-37919ED0
Date posted: 7 April 2026
Consultant: Luna Saegusa
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