At EY, you will have the chance to build a career as unique as you are, with the global scale, support, inclusive culture and technology to become the best version of you. And we are counting on your unique voice and perspective to help EY become even better too. Join us and build an exceptional experience for yourself, and a better working world for all.

The opportunity

As a Business Resilience Consultant, you will gain key insights into how EY supports our clients to further the continuity of their mission critical operations and services in the event of a disruption. You will act as an advisor to senior stakeholders in an effort to prevent, respond to, adapt during, and recover from disruptive scenarios (e.g. pandemic, cyber event, technology failure, natural disaster, etc.). This enables our clients to minimize severe impacts that could compromise their financial standing, reputation, customers, and operations. If you are looking to make a meaningful client impact, in a role that brings together business and technology, this is the role to consider!

Your key responsibilities

• Increase familiarity with key Business Resilience topics, such as business continuity, disaster recovery, crisis management, and incident response
• Assist our clients in understanding their threat landscape and the current risks to their operations, including single points of failure that could lead to a disruption or crisis
• Identify risk mitigation opportunities to help client’s make their processes more resilient and less susceptible to disruptive events
• Conduct assessments of the client’s existing Business Resilience capability in order to identify areas for improvement and gaps against industry benchmarks, regulations, and leading practices
• Design and implement Business Resilience frameworks, including underlying processes, templates, and tools
• Actively participate and/or lead client workshops on the topic of Business Resilience
• Design and build business continuity, crisis management, and incident response simulations in our virtual desktop.
• Enable the facilitation of the developed simulations with our clients.

Skills and attributes for success

• Degree (Bachelor or Master) in Business / Management, Business Information Technology, Engineering, or similar
• A passion for advising and collaborating with clients to solve complex problems and a willingness to learn new topics (e.g. cyber, business continuity, disaster recovery, etc.)
• As we sit within the broader cybersecurity consulting team, a willingness to work across cybersecurity projects, as required
• Excellent written and verbal communications in English and German
• Strong client services orientation and accustomed to taking a proactive role in engagements
• Readiness for work assignments on site at our clients
• Entrepreneurial mindset and an innovative spirit
• Motivated, ambitious, and self-driven personality
• Initial exposures or experience to business resilience topics, potentially including business continuity, disaster recovery, crisis management, and/or incident response