Protective Intelligence & Deputy Travel Risk Manager

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The Business Resilience Team (BRT)

Protective Intelligence & Deputy Travel Risk Manager

The opportunity

The Business Resilience Team (BRT) is responsible for health and safety, accessibility, physical security, business continuity management, travel risk management, incident and crisis management and the provision of security support to government and MOD contracts.

The Protective Intelligence & Risk Manager/Deputy Travel Risk Manager operates to continuously improve EY UK&I’s protective intelligence and travel risk capability, providing horizon scanning, threat assessment, traveller support, incident response, stakeholder, Leadership briefings and post-incident learning to protect EY people, travellers, offices, assets and business operations. This role will report to the Travel Risk Manager but will work closely will the Business Resilience Leader (Director) and the function heads within the BRT. You will be responsible for:

• Drawing on a wide range of open sources provide written and verbal threat and risk assessments relating to geopolitical issues, travel, property, assets, business activities, and people – the threats, hazards and the disruptive events will be various, including but not limited to pandemic, crime, protest, single interest groups, extreme weather, utilities failure and monitoring open-source intelligence on major security incidents
• Maintain and evolve an Intelligence Collection Plan to support the BRT Risk Register and Firm’s business objectives
• Define, regularly update and implement the Intelligence Cycle and underpinning processes and tools
• Support the Travel Risk Manager prepare and support travellers for their trips overseas some to high and extreme risk locations

Advanced relationship building and networking skills

Experience in leading and oversight of business resilience at a senior level

Incident and crisis management experience

Knowledge and experience of crisis management and business continuity planning, travel security, and working in a crisis management team

Excellent communication and IT skills, including O365 and AI

Strong analytical and logical skills with the ability to deal with problems in a practical and common-sense way

Ability to work in a complex, matrixed organisation

Ability to establish a high degree of credibility, respect and trust at all levels, including with senior partners of the firm

Experience of delivering major projects and change management

Effective planning and organising skills to prioritise key areas of responsibility, tasks and projects; and

A deep understanding of the business of a global professional services organisation, and an appreciation of its culture.

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Police or military intelligence experience, or A Degree or higher in a related area e.g. Terrorism, Security Data management and exploitation experience
• Open Source (OSINT) and Social Media (SOCMINT) exploitation experience
• Experience in intelligence tools and SaaS Experience of working within a Big 4 environment
• Experience in being part of a close-knit team
• The ability to work in an organisation which strongly believes in Diversity, Equity & Inclusiveness
  
  

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