Designing Business Continuity and Recovery System

Course Overview 

This course empowers senior finance and operations leaders, including CFOs, COOs, and business owners, to design and implement robust Business Continuity and Recovery Systems (BCRS). Participants will learn how to proactively identify operational and financial risks, minimize disruption, maintain financial stability, and create practical recovery plans for crisis scenarios (e.g., cyberattacks, pandemics, economic shocks, natural disasters and attrition).

The course focuses on integrating finance, operations, and strategy to ensure resilience, compliance, and stakeholder confidence during disruptions.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the core principles and components of Business Continuity and Recovery Planning.
• Identify and assess key financial and operational risks across the business.
• Design continuity strategies to protect revenue, cash flow, systems, and critical processes.
• Develop a business recovery roadmap, including roles, timelines, and trigger actions.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory standards and stakeholder expectations.
• Create and test an actionable Business Continuity and Recovery Plan tailored to their function or organisation.

Training Content

DAY 1 – Business Continuity Planning (BCP): Strategy, Risk & System Design

Session 1: Introduction to Business Continuity Planning and Management

Session 2: Risk Assessment & Business Impact Analysis (BIA)

Session 3: Developing the Business Continuity Plan

Session 4: Continuity Strategies & Mitigation Plans

DAY 2 – Risk Identification and Business Impact Analysis (BIA)

Session 5: Identifying operational, financial, and compliance risks

Session 6: Conducting a Business Impact Analysis: process, people, technology, cash

Session 7: Defining critical business functions and acceptable downtime

Session 8: Financial impact mapping: cost of downtime, liquidity gaps, and disruption