Senior Resilience & Risk Advisory

BDO USA; Rosemont (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 a broad range of risks. The role blends insurance risk advisory with enterprise resilience, crisis management, and business continuity, working across the full engagement lifecycle.

The Senior Associate will craft executive-ready deliverables, engage with client stakeholders, and apply analytical insights to identify resilience gaps and improvement

Qualifications

• Requires a bachelor’s degree; master’s preferred.
• Three+ years of work experience in communications, engineering, data sciences, risk or insurance; professional client service experience preferred.
• Familiarity with consulting methodologies, risk and resilience frameworks, and data-driven analysis techniques, including AI and advanced analytics, 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

Risk management

Client advisory

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Visio

Copilot

Job description

BDO USA is seeking a Senior Associate – Resilience to support advisory services that help clients anticipate, withstand, respond to, and recover from a broad range of risks. The role blends insurance risk advisory with enterprise resilience, crisis management, and business continuity, working across the full engagement lifecycle.

The Senior Associate will craft executive-ready deliverables, engage with client stakeholders, and apply analytical insights to identify resilience gaps and improvement