Senior Associate, Resilience & Risk Advisory

BDO USA; Melville (NY); 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 traditional insurance risk advisory capabilities with broader resilience disciplines, including enterprise risk management and business continuity.

You will work across the engagement lifecycle, supporting proposal development, risk assessments, analytical insights,

Qualifications

• Three (3) or more years of work experience in communications, engineering, data sciences, risk or insurance, required
• Professional client service and advisory experience, preferred
• Familiarity with consulting methodologies, risk and resilience frameworks, and data-driven analysis techniques, including the use of AI and advanced analytics tools to support risk identification, scenario analysis, automation of data review, and development of actionable insights, preferred

Responsibilities

• Supports or leads components of client engagements across insurance risk advisory, enterprise risk management, business continuity, crisis management, and operational resilience
• Participates in engagement planning, fact-finding, and execution, including document reviews, data analysis, interviews, workshops, and client meetings
• 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

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Client advisory

Risk management

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree

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 traditional insurance risk advisory capabilities with broader resilience disciplines, including enterprise risk management and business continuity.

You will work across the engagement lifecycle, supporting proposal development, risk assessments, analytical insights,