Cybersecurity: Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery (BCDR) - Senior Manager
CFGI is a leading advisory firm that partners with private equity sponsors, portfolio companies, and public companies to solve complex challenges across finance, technology, compliance, and business transformation. Our Cybersecurity practice supports clients through operational resilience, business continuity, disaster recovery, cyber resilience, and technology risk management programs.
Role Overview
CFGI is seeking a Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery (BCDR) Subject Matter Expert to lead strategic advisory engagements that strengthen clients’ operational resilience, crisis management, business continuity, and technology recovery capabilities. This role combines hands-on delivery, executive communication, and practice leadership.
The successful candidate will work with CISOs, CIOs, COOs, Risk Leaders, Infrastructure Leaders, and private equity deal teams to assess resilience maturity, develop recovery strategies, lead testing programs, and implement pragmatic solutions that improve organizational preparedness and recoverability.
Key Responsibilities
Client Advisory & Resilience Delivery
Lead Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Operational Resilience, and Crisis Management engagements from scoping through executive reporting.
Conduct Business Impact Analyses (BIA), dependency mapping, critical process assessments, and recovery objective (RTO/RPO) reviews.
Design and implement BCM governance programs, policies, standards, recovery plans, crisis management frameworks, and multi-year resilience roadmaps.
Assess third-party and vendor resilience capabilities and integrate continuity requirements into risk management programs.
Disaster Recovery & Technical Resilience
Assess recovery capabilities across cloud, infrastructure, networks, applications, data platforms, and cybersecurity environments.
Evaluate backup, replication, high availability, failover, and recovery architectures against business requirements.
Review technical recovery documentation, runbooks, architecture diagrams, testing results, and recovery evidence.
Assess cyber recovery capabilities, including ransomware recovery strategies, immutable backups, recovery vaults, and segregated recovery environments.
Support M&A, carve-outs, integrations, and portfolio company resilience transformation initiatives.
Testing, Exercises & Crisis Management
Design and facilitate tabletop exercises, crisis simulations, and disaster recovery tests involving executive and technical stakeholders.
Develop exercise scenarios, after-action reports, lessons learned analyses, and prioritized remediation plans.
Define and report resilience KPIs, recovery performance, testing effectiveness, and material risks.
Practice Development & Leadership
Support business development through proposal writing, SOW development, client presentations, solution design, and effort estimation.
Mentor and develop team memb