Associate Consultant - Risk Consulting

About the role

Control Risks is hiring an Associate Consultant in Tokyo to provide risk consulting services to its clients, focusing on crisis management, business continuity, enterprise risk management and resilience, training, and, secondarily, client security management and security consultancy. The role supports an experienced team in delivering client engagements, may involve responding to crisis issues and developing preventative risk management programmes, and involves travel across the Japan region in a hands-on, client-facing position.

Key responsibilities

• Support the scoping and delivery of resilience consulting, including crisis management planning and training, risk management and business continuity.
• Conduct threat and risk assessments and recommend risk mitigation measures to clients.
• Conduct and assess training and exercises for executive management teams to test crisis management and business continuity capability.
• Develop emergency and incident response plans against security risks such as natural disasters, civil unrest, insurgency, workplace violence, armed robbery, arson and terrorism.
• Use specialist resources from across the APAC region and the Group to deliver high-quality outcomes.
• Carry out security reviews and audits of security systems across industries.
• Prepare and submit high-standard verbal and written reports for internal and external stakeholders.
• Maintain good relationships with staff, contractors, joint venture partners, government representatives (including police and military), regulators and industry groups.
• Work in small teams, including client teams and with external contractors or consultants, and support event security projects.

Required profile

• Diploma or bachelor's degree in a relevant subject.
• Experience in a corporate or consulting environment, and/or working with multinational companies in Japan; a track record of professional excellence in a related field.
• Excellent written and spoken English, with deductive report writing skills.
• Ability to work independently and in fluid operating environments.
• A second language (e.g. Chinese, Korean) is desirable.

Required skills

• Relevant industry qualifications (e.g. business continuity, security)
• Research, summarisation and report writing