Managing Director, Forensics - Financial Services Resilience Practice Leader

Job Summary

BDO's Resilience practice is a recognized leader in helping organizations anticipate, prepare for, respond to, and recover from disruptive events. Our multidisciplinary team delivers a comprehensive suite of services-including Operational Resilience, Business Continuity, Crisis Management, Cyber/IT Disaster Recovery, and Third-Party Risk Management-to clients across industries.

• Matures and leads the Resilience practice's financial services industry offerings
• Originates work through strong market relationships
• Leads client pitches, development of proposals and new relationships through CRM
• Establishes engagement budgets, coordinates deliverables, and maintains appropriate project management to ensure engagements are delivered "on time, on budget, and as promised"
• Proactively identifies project risks and issues and resolves them in a timely manner
• Cultivates and maintains strong, trust-based strategic relationships with key client decision makers
• Identifies revenue growth opportunities and coordinates business development efforts including drafting and issuance of statements of work
• Oversees multiple client engagements
• Provides clients with strategic guidance (written and verbal) in the disciplines of business continuity, crisis management, resiliency, and/or enterprise risk management
• Recommends enhancements to client operations and infrastructure to strengthen risk management capabilities
• Contributes to the development of methodologies and intellectual capital
• Applies AI and data-driven solutions to build scalable and forward-looking strategies
• Exhibits mastery of consulting methodology, materials, tools, and risk management software
• Other duties as required

• Supervises the day-to-day workload of Directors, Senior Managers, Managers, Senior Associates and Associates on assigned engagements and reviews work product
• Acts as Career Advisor to professionals in the practice as appropriate
• Provides strong leadership, technical guidance, coaching, support and confidence building to managers and junior consultants ensuring they are trained on all relevant tools and techniques
• Evaluates the performance of team members and assists in the development of goals and objectives to enhance professional development
• Manages consulting, financial and operational numbers, such as utilization, realization, margin, sales pipeline
• Demonstrates ability to grow, expand, cross-sell accounts
• Manages economics of the Financial Services practice area to include determining and administering the services of the practice, overseeing professionals and ensuring engagements achieve engagement metrics

• Bachelor's degree, required; major in Business Administration or Risk Management, preferred
• Master of Business Administration (MBA), preferred

• Fifteen (15) or more years of consulting experience in financial services, operational risk management, business continuity or crisis management, required
• Experience successfully building new business and leading engagements within the professional services industry, required
• Experience with resilience and industry specific regulatory requirements (i.e., FFIEC, FRB, NYDFS, and DORA), required

• DRII, BCI, and/or Series 7, preferred

• Microsoft Office Suite, specifically Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, required
• Experience with Teams, or other web-based meeting applications, preferred
• Experience with SharePoint and familiarity with cloud-based CRM tools, preferred
• Familiarity with risk and/or resiliency software (e.g. Archer, Fusion, Origami, Service Now Fairchild, etc.), preferred

• Entrepreneurial mind-set and self-motivated
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Willing and able to travel, when necessary

Individual salaries that are offered to a candidate are determined after consideration of numerous factors including but not limited to the candidate's qualifications, experience, skills, and geography.

National Range: $200,000 - $400,000
Maryland Range: $200,000 - $400,000
NYC/Long Island/Westchester Range: $200,000 - $400,000