Senior Associate, Resilience & Risk Advisory

BDO USA; Oak Brook (IL); On-site; USD 80,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

BDO USA is seeking a Senior Associate – Resilience to support advisory services that help clients anticipate, withstand, respond to, and recover from risks. The role blends insurance risk advisory with enterprise resilience, including risk management, crisis management, and business continuity across engagements.

You will contribute to proposal development, conduct risk assessments, develop insights, and deliver executive-ready deliverables while engaging with client stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Three or more years of work experience in communications, engineering, data sciences, risk or insurance.
• 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

Client advisory experience

Risk management knowledge

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 that help clients anticipate, withstand, respond to, and recover from risks. The role blends insurance risk advisory with enterprise resilience, including risk management, crisis management, and business continuity across engagements.

You will contribute to proposal development, conduct risk assessments, develop insights, and deliver executive-ready deliverables while engaging with client stakeholders.