Associate Director, Event Security Services

About the role

Known for being a great place to work and build a career, KPMG provides audit, tax and advisory services for organizations in today's most important industries. Our growth is driven by delivering real results for our clients. It's also enabled by our culture, which encourages individual development, embraces an inclusive environment, rewards innovative excellence and supports our communities. With qualities like those, it's no wonder we're consistently ranked among the best companies to work for by Fortune Magazine, Consulting Magazine, Seramount, Fair360 and others. If you're as passionate about your future as we are, join our team. KPMG is currently seeking an Associate Director, Event Security Services to join our Enterprise Security Services organization.

Responsibilities

• Apply delegated authoritative command of Key Personnel & Event Security Services operations to guide coordinated, tactical operations for the firm as a component of Firm Safety & Security Services
• Serve as a subject matter and delegate most senior functional knowledge expertise for Key Personnel & Event Security Services; drive and manage high-profile and high-impact priority projects and initiatives to mitigate security risks and concerns within the firm; perform white glove VIP visitor security services and liaise with third-party security resources to facilitate business agenda
• Drive innovation across Key Personnel & Event Security Services by continuously understanding emerging threats and risks to firm security capabilities and altering operational or strategic programs as needed to address these risks; adjudicate security situations via protective intelligence assessments proactively or manage concerns as they arise dynamically making sound decisions that balance security risks with other business priorities
• Serve as a trusted subject matter expert, collaborating with the Director of Key Personnel & Event Security Services, staff, and most senior executive leaders across the firm to keep alignment on strategies; promote and foster collaboration between security and other parts of firm business; key stakeholders may include Office of the Chair, KPMG Board of Directors support, Event & Meetings, Marketing & Sponsorships, Talent & Culture, Office of General Counsel, Ethics and Compliance, Risk Management, and other firm leadership
• Develop and maintain appropriate metrics to show progress against key initiatives; prepare assessments, periodic reports, and detailed event or protective detail plans for security which may all or in part be shared with most senior executive management
• Provide overall accountability for delegated key personnel and event security service offerings including responsibility for the ongoing awareness and daily operations of scope of services as defined; assume people management responsibility for multiple mid-level and/or junior-level professionals via mastery of supplier relationship managed short- or long-term third-party sourced models; develop and execute resource plans for personnel and insider risk security services, ensuring efficient allocation and maximum utilization of resources across the teams and appropriate awareness and training of personnel and/or third parties receiving such service offerings
• Act with integrity, professionalism, and personal responsibility to uphold KPMG's respectful and courteous work environment

Qualifications

• Minimum eight years of recent progressive experience in personnel/executive protection, event security, investigations, security operations, supplier relationship management, protective intelligence, and experience leading large-scale, enterprise programs
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university is preferred; minimum of a high school diploma or GED is required; or minimum ten years of recent extensive global expertise in key personnel and event security
• Experience operating in a mature, complex environment and collaborating with external stakeholders
• Ability to make decisions of high complexity and often utmost confidentiality, often autonomously, and provide guidance and strategic advice to executive level management
• Track record of programmatic success, delivering large-scale projects within schedule and resource constraints; experience recruiting, developing,