Business Continuity & Resilience - Senior Associate

As a cybersecurity professional at PwC, your primary focus will be on protecting organizations from cyber threats using advanced technologies and strategies. You will play a key role in identifying vulnerabilities, developing secure systems, and providing proactive solutions to safeguard sensitive data. In the realm of cybersecurity incident management, your responsibilities will involve effectively responding to and mitigating cyber threats, ensuring the security of client systems and data. Your duties will include identifying, analyzing, and resolving security incidents to minimize potential damage and prevent future attacks. In this role, you will be expected to build meaningful client connections and learn how to manage and inspire others. By navigating complex situations, you will have the opportunity to enhance your personal brand, deepen your technical expertise, and become more aware of your strengths. Anticipating the needs of your teams and clients, and delivering quality work will be essential. Embracing ambiguity and being comfortable with unclear paths, you will be encouraged to ask questions and view such moments as opportunities for growth. To excel in this position, you need to possess a range of skills, knowledge, and experiences. These include but are not limited to: - Responding effectively to diverse perspectives, needs, and feelings of others. - Utilizing a variety of tools, methodologies, and techniques to generate new ideas and solve problems. - Applying critical thinking to break down complex concepts. - Understanding the broader objectives of your project or role and how your work aligns with the overall strategy. - Developing a deeper understanding of the business context and its evolution. - Using reflection to enhance self-awareness, strengthen your strengths, and address development areas. - Interpreting data to derive insights and make recommendations. - Upholding and reinforcing professional and technical standards, as well as the Firm's code of conduct and independence requirements. In the role of Senior Associate in the Operational Resilience practice at PwC, you will contribute to helping clients instill trust in the resilience of their critical services and products. Your focus will be on integrating resilience into the design of business processes, controls, and their dependencies. Your responsibilities as a Senior Associate will involve working as part of a problem-solving team, addressing complex business issues from strategy to execution. Key responsibilities will include: - Providing operational resilience services and products to clients, with a focus on internal auditing, maturity assessments, critical operations identification, and scenario testing/exercising. - Assisting in adaptive program design and supporting an operational resilience framework. - Leveraging technology and digital solutions to diagnose and mitigate operational threats. - Supporting the management team in developing new frameworks, tools, and technologies for enhancing Operational Resilience practice. - Demonstrating strong leadership skills in dynamic and cross-functional teams for large-scale and multi-national engagements. - Delivering high performance to clients and staff by maintaining clear vision, open communication, flexibility, collaboration, and accountability. To succeed in this role, you should have considerable experience in Operational Resilience or related areas such as Business Continuity, Crisis Management, Technology Risk, Technology Resilience, IT Disaster Recovery, or Third Party Risk Management. Key skills and experiences that will be valuable include: - Subject matter expertise in operational resilience and the ability to confidently present to executive and senior leadership. - Industry certifications related to operational risk, technology risk, or resilience. - Knowledge of applying emerging operational resilience guidance and regulations. - A commitment to providing excellent client service and building productive relationships. - Strong written and oral communication skills. - Excellent analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills. - Ability to multitask, manage multiple projects/clients, and resolve issues. - A continuous improvement mindset, challenging the status quo and seeking self-improvement. - Bilingual fluency in English and French would be an asset.,