Senior Associate, Forensics - Insurance & Risk Management

Job Summary

The Senior Associate – Resilience supports and delivers advisory services that help clients anticipate, withstand, respond to, and recover from various operational, strategic, financial, and insurable risks. This role integrates traditional insurance risk advisory with broader resilience disciplines such as enterprise risk management, crisis management, business continuity, and operational resilience.

Job Duties

• 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

Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

• Bachelor’s degree, required; focus in Accounting, Economics, Finance, Risk Management, Engineering, Computer Science, Communications, preferred
• Master's degree, preferred
• 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
• Software proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, specifically Excel, PowerPoint and Visio, and Copilot, required
• License(s)/Certification(s): N/A

Other Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

• Positive attitude and willingness to learn
• Strong interest in insurance management, risk management, corporate crisis management, crisis communications and/or business continuity
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong analytical and basic research skills related to the retrieval and organization of high volumes of information
• Solid organizational skills especially ability to meet project deadlines
• Capacity to build and maintain strong relationships with internal and client personnel
• Identifies and assists in practice business development efforts, including client pursuits and proposals
• Supports a collaborative and team-oriented environment while pushing themselves, their peers, and their teams for strong results and quality work
• Effectively handles firm and practice administrative matters, including engagement staffing, client billing, monitoring project economics and adherence to Firm quality standards and protocols

About Us

BDO is committed to delivering exceptional experiences to middle market leaders by sharing insight-driven perspectives, helping companies take business as usual to better than usual. With industry knowledge and experience, a breadth and depth of resources, and unwavering commitment to quality, we pride ourselves on welcoming diverse perspectives and understanding the experience of our professionals and clients. Empowering team members to explore their full potential, BDO is focused on resilience and sustainability to positively impact our people, clients, and communities. BDO Total Rewards that encompass so much more than traditional “benefits.” Click here to find out more!