Senior Associate/Recovery Services (Forensic Services practice)

NextGenEnergyJobs; Toronto; On-site; CAD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

NextGenEnergyJobs seeks an Senior Associate/Recovery Services professional to lead cybersecurity incident response, digital forensics, and enterprise recovery engagements across diverse client environments.

You will direct multiple workstreams, shape scoping and pricing, and own client communications with executives, counsel, and carriers, delivering defensible investigative reports and remediation roadmaps.

Qualifications

• 5–7+ years in cybersecurity incident response or forensics, including 3+ years leading engagements.
• Experience leading ransomware recovery or complex intrusion matters at scale.
• Strong command of hybrid Microsoft identity architecture (AD/Entra ID/CA/privileged access).
• Experience handling breach response with counsel and carrier dynamics.
• Proven ability to scope and price engagements and meet fixed-price commitments.
• Executive-level written and verbal communication; able to brief boards and CISOs.
• Professional certifications such as CISSP, GCFA, GCIH, or CISM; advanced degree a plus.
• Prior consulting experience; existing relationships with breach counsel or cyber insurance carriers.
• Background in security assessment methodologies and compliance frameworks (NIST CSF, CISA SCuBA, CMMC).

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple concurrent incident response, forensic investigation, and recovery engagements, owning scope, budget, staffing, and delivery quality.
• Direct technical workstreams across containment, forensics, identity remediation, and infrastructure recovery, setting priorities and unblocking consultant teams.
• Develop evidence-based scoping and level-of-effort models for fixed-price recovery engagements, sequenced by client business priority.
• Serve as primary point of contact for client executives, outside counsel, and insurance carrier representatives throughout active matters.
• Own final written work product: investigation reports, executive briefings, insurance guidance memoranda, and remediation roadmaps.
• Review and quality-control consultant deliverables for technical accuracy and defensibility.
• Mentor and develop consulting associates and associates, including structured feedback and engagement-level coaching.
• Contribute to practice development: methodology and playbook standardization, reusable engagement IP, service line definition, and thought leadership.
• Support business development through carrier and law firm relationship management, proposal development, and scoping calls for inbound matters.

Skills

Incident response

Digital forensics

Cybersecurity

Executive communication

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Education

Advanced degree in a relevant field

Tools

CISSP

GCFA

GCIH

CISM

Job description

Senior Associate/Recovery Services (Forensic Services practice)

CRA’s Forensic Services practice supports companies’ commitment to integrity by assisting them and their counsel in independently responding to allegations of fraud, waste, abuse, misconduct, and non-compliance.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead multiple concurrent incident response, forensic investigation, and recovery engagements, owning scope, budget, staffing, and delivery quality
• Direct technical workstreams across containment, forensics, identity remediation, and infrastructure recovery, setting priorities and unblocking consultant teams
• Develop evidence-based scoping and level-of-effort models for fixed-price recovery engagements, sequenced by client business priority
• Serve as primary point of contact for client executives, outside counsel, and insurance carrier representatives throughout active matters
• Own final written work product: investigation reports, executive briefings, insurance guidance memoranda, and remediation roadmaps
• Review and quality-control consultant deliverables for technical accuracy and defensibility
• Mentor and develop consulting associates and associates, including structured feedback and engagement-level coaching
• Contribute to practice development: methodology and playbook standardization, reusable engagement IP, service line definition, and thought leadership
• Support business development through carrier and law firm relationship management, proposal development, and scoping calls for inbound matters

Requirements

• 5-7+ years in cybersecurity incident response, digital forensics, or enterprise recovery, including 3+ years leading engagements or teams
• Track record leading large-scale ransomware recovery or complex intrusion matters in enterprise environments (thousands of endpoints, multi-site)
• Strong command of hybrid Microsoft identity architecture (Active Directory, Entra ID, Conditional Access, privileged access models) at a level sufficient to direct and validate technical work
• Experience working under legal privilege and managing the counsel and carrier dynamics of breach response
• Demonstrated ability to scope and price engagements accurately, and to manage delivery to fixed-price commitments
• Executive-grade written and verbal communication; comfortable briefing boards, GCs, and CISOs
• Certifications such as CISSP, GCFA, GCIH, CISM, or equivalent; advanced degree in a relevant field a plus
• Prior consulting experience at a professional services firm, IR boutique, or carrier panel firm
• Existing relationships with breach counsel or cyber insurance carriers
• Experience testifying or supporting expert work product in litigation or regulatory contexts
• Background in security assessment methodologies and compliance frameworks (NIST CSF, CISA SCuBA, CMMC)
• CRA’s robust skills development programs , including a commitment to offering 100 hours of training annually through formal and informal programs, encourage you to thrive as an individual and team member. Beginning with research and analysis skill building, training continues with technical training, presentation skills, internal seminars, and career mentoring and performance coaching from an assigned senior colleague. Additional leadership and collaboration opportunities exist through internal firm development activities.
• We offer a comprehensive total rewards program including a superior benefits package, wellness programming to support physical, mental, emotional and financial well-being, and in-house immigration support for foreign nationals and international business travelers.