Control Risks

Senior Consultant

Control Risks

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Tokyo • Japan

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Senior

About the role

  • Build strong and profitable client relationships across a portfolio of multinationals, NGO’s and Government clients.
  • Working closely with existing resources in the market, generate commercial opportunities with new and existing clients.
  • Lead on the scoping and delivery of resilience consulting tasks including crisis management planning and training, risk management, and business continuity. Utilise specialist resources from around the APAC region and the Group to profitably deliver high quality outcomes for clients.
  • Lead on specialist crisis response tasks and reactive complex problem solving engagements, including assisting clients response to critical security incidents, product recall, extortive threat, regulatory investigation, employee malfeasance and cyber breaches.
  • Conduct and assess training and exercises for executive management teams to test and validate an organisation’s crisis management and business continuity capability.
  • Assist the development of strategic, tactical and operational level instruments including crisis and business continuity management documents to internationally recognised standards or practices customised for individual organisations.
  • Actively contribute to thought leadership, marketing and business development activities in Japan and throughout the region.
  • Prepare and submit verbal and written reports to a high standard for the use of internal or external stakeholders.
  • Maintain cooperative relationships with staff, contractors, joint venture partners, government representatives, particularly police and military, regulatory bodies and industry groups.
  • Work as part of small teams including as part of client teams or with external contractors/consultants.
  • Provide support in the development and editing of proposals.
  • Assist in the development of capability statements and other collateral requested by clients.
  • Provide research support as required for tasks

Requirements

  • 15 years’ experience in a resilience and business continuity discipline
  • Prior experience developing and implementing crisis or risk management programs, preferably in the client and consultant role
  • Sound knowledge of, and experience in implementing, current international risk consulting standards and methodologies
  • Crisis and emergency management planning and response
  • Delivery of BIA, BCP and risk assessment projects
  • Design and delivery of presentations and/or training activities
  • Knowledge of management, group dynamics and leadership theory is advantageous
  • Working knowledge and experience in advising on, developing and applying methodology and related framework using the below standards
  • – ISO (31000:2009) and specifically aligns with the ISO 22300 series, specifically in this case:
  • – ISO 22301:2019 – Security and Resilience - Business Continuity management systems
  • – ISO 22313:2012 - Societal security - Business continuity management systems
  • – ISO 22317:2015 - Societal security - Business continuity management systems Guidelines for business impact analysis (BIA)
  • – BSI 65000:2014: Guide to Organisational Resilience
  • Ability to:
  • Work under pressure, respond to fast moving challenges and guide clients in solving complex problems with incomplete information in an environment of uncertainty
  • Create and maintain good working relationships with internal and external stakeholders
  • Work independently with limited direction, including offshore
  • Work for extended periods, if necessary, to meet deadlines
  • Use high-level analytical and conceptual thinking
  • Use initiative and be proactive in managing issues
  • Employ high-level oral and written communication skills
  • Deliver engaging presentations and authoritative advice to middle/senior management teams and boards
  • Completed a university degree in a relevant field, including, but not limited to, risk, international security, counterterrorism or international relations.
  • Project management methodologies and skills
  • Workplace training and assessing

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
crisis managementrisk managementbusiness continuitybusiness impact analysis (BIA)ISO 31000ISO 22301ISO 22313ISO 22317BSI 65000project management
Soft skills
problem solvingrelationship buildingindependent workanalytical thinkingcommunication skillspresentation skillsleadershipinitiativeteam collaborationworking under pressure