Business Continuity Analyst

Most days mix business impact analysis, plan documentation, tabletop exercise prep, and steady follow-up on the action items from the last review cycle. You'll often work cross-functionally — IT, facilities, HR, communications, vendor management — gathering input on dependencies, recovery time objectives, and acceptable downtime. The rhythm tends to be quiet until something happens, then suddenly central.

The harder part is often getting organizational attention for work that prevents problems rather than producing visible output. Plans need maintenance; without an actual incident, the discipline can drift. You'll often be the person reminding leadership that the last test was 18 months ago, and the patience to do that without becoming the office Cassandra is real work. The work spans frameworks like ISO 22301 and NIST.

People who tend to thrive here are analytically rigorous, calm under pressure, and able to think in scenarios that haven't happened yet. The role tends to be a pathway to business continuity manager, resilience director, or enterprise risk roles. The trade-off is that the role can feel like Cassandra work in the absence of incidents, and visibility tends to spike sharply when something does happen.