Senior Associate, Resilience & Risk Advisory

BDO USA; New York (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, and recover from a broad set of risks. You will engage across enterprise risk management, crisis management, business continuity, and operational resilience, delivering reports, roadmaps, and executive summaries.

The role requires strong analytical abilities, collaboration across geographies, and experience applying risk frameworks to practical client scenarios.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; focus in Accounting, Economics, Finance, Risk Management, Engineering, Computer Science, Communications preferred.
• Master’s degree preferred.
• Three or more years of work experience in communications, engineering, data sciences, risk or insurance.
• Familiarity with consulting methodologies, risk and resilience frameworks; data-driven analysis including AI and advanced analytics tools.

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

Risk management familiarity

Client engagement

Education

Bachelor’s degree (Accounting, Economics, Finance, Risk Management, Engineering, CS)

Master’s degree, preferred

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, and recover from a broad set of risks. You will engage across enterprise risk management, crisis management, business continuity, and operational resilience, delivering reports, roadmaps, and executive summaries.

The role requires strong analytical abilities, collaboration across geographies, and experience applying risk frameworks to practical client scenarios.