Senior Consultant, Organizational Resilience
Forvis Mazars US · Dallas, TX · 2 days ago
HybridHuman Resources$78k/yrInternship
About the role
Our Organizational Resilience practice brings our global footprint, clients, industry expertise, and innovative solutions together to help global companies exceed their strategic objectives and needs. As a future Senior Consultant on our Organizational Resilience Team, we are looking for an established professional with experience in Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Crisis Management, and/or Incident Management.
Responsibilities
- Conduct business impact analyses and risk assessments to identify vulnerabilities across critical processes and systems
- Partner with IT disaster recovery teams to validate and reconcile business-defined recovery objectives (RTO/RPO) with technical recovery capabilities, identifying gaps, documenting risk exposure, and supporting prioritization of remediation efforts
- Design and implement business continuity, disaster recovery, and crisis management strategies to enhance organizational resilience
- Lead client engagements by managing project plans, overseeing internal teams, and serving as a trusted advisor to client stakeholders, proactively identifying risks, resolving challenges, and ensuring alignment between business, IT, and leadership expectations
- Plan, coordinate, and facilitate testing and exercise programs, including working sessions, tabletop exercises, and functional/technical simulations
- Support end-to-end client engagements across the full project lifecycle, including assessment, design, implementation, and optimization phases
- Translate assessment and BIA outputs into actionable insights for client leadership, supporting risk-based prioritization, resilience investment decisions, and operating model improvements
- Contribute to firmwide initiatives focused on resilience strategy, risk mitigation, and operational improvement
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree
- 2+ years of experience
- Experience aligning business continuity and disaster recovery requirements with enterprise IT environments
- Ability to travel, when required
Preferred Qualifications
- Relevant Certification (e.g., CBCP, CBCI, ISO)
- Experience supporting resilience, continuity, or risk programs in regulated or highly complex environments (e.g., healthcare, higher education, energy, financial services)
- Experience with business continuity or disaster recovery tools and platforms (e.g., ServiceNow BCM, Fusion, Archer), or designing structured BIA data models and reporting frameworks
- Demonstrated ability to facilitate cross-functional workshops and translate complex resilience concepts into clear, executive-level insights and recommendations
- Experience integrating business continuity, disaster recovery, and incident management into a unified resilience framework aligned to industry standards (e.g., ISO 22301, NIST, FEMA ICS)
Pay
New York City: $77,860 - $122,100
Illinois: $77,860 - $122,100
Virginia: $77,860 - $122,100
Schedule
Full-time