Resilience & Risk Advisory Senior Associate

BDO USA; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 80,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

BDO USA is seeking a Senior Associate – Resilience to support advisory services helping clients anticipate, withstand, respond to, and recover from operational, strategic, financial, and insurable risks. The role blends insurance risk with enterprise resilience disciplines, including risk management and business continuity.

You will work across engagement lifecycle from proposals to delivery, analyze data, prepare executive deliverables, and collaborate with client teams worldwide.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; focus in Accounting, Economics, Finance, Risk Management, Engineering, Computer Science, or Communications preferred.
• Master’s degree preferred.
• Three or more years of work experience in communications, engineering, data sciences, risk or insurance.

Responsibilities

• Supports or leads components of client engagements across insurance risk advisory, enterprise risk management, business continuity, crisis management, and operational resilience.
• Analyzes quantitative and qualitative client data to identify risk exposures, resilience gaps, and improvement opportunities.
• Develops high-quality client work products, including reports, executive summaries, presentations, risk frameworks, policies, and implementation roadmaps.
• Supports or facilitates client workshops, tabletop exercises, and crisis or continuity simulations.
• Tracks engagement progress, manages assigned tasks, and proactively communicates status, risks, and issues to engagement leadership.
• Leverages AI-enabled tools to accelerate data review, pattern detection, and synthesis of client risk information.

Skills

Communications

Engineering

Data sciences

Risk management

Insurance

Education

Bachelor’s degree (Accounting, Economics, Finance, Risk Management, Engineering, Computer Science, Communications)

Master’s degree

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Visio

Copilot

AI tools

Job description

BDO USA is seeking a Senior Associate – Resilience to support advisory services helping clients anticipate, withstand, respond to, and recover from operational, strategic, financial, and insurable risks. The role blends insurance risk with enterprise resilience disciplines, including risk management and business continuity.

You will work across engagement lifecycle from proposals to delivery, analyze data, prepare executive deliverables, and collaborate with client teams worldwide.