Associate, Risk Advisory - Risk Intelligence

Teneo is a global advisory firm that works exclusively with the CEO and leaders of the world’s largest and most complex companies providing strategic counsel across their full array of key objectives and issues. Our teams integrate the disciplines of strategic communications, investment banking, management consulting, corporate governance, risk, and government affairs to solve the most complex business and reputational challenges.    

Teneo Risk Advisory is one of five business segments within Teneo, alongside Strategy & Communications, Management Consulting, Financial Advisory, and People Advisory. We are focused on offering CEOs and management teams a holistic approach to identifying, managing, and mitigating operational, reputational, event, and strategic risks to their businesses. 

The business segment, led by former New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton, is comprised of a world-class team of practitioners, investigators, analysts, technical advisors, and strategic partners with a broad array of operational and advisory backgrounds from the world’s most respected corporate, military, intelligence, consulting, technology, public health, and public-safety organizations. Our team’s vast experience and backgrounds equip us to address a myriad of internal and external threats that CEOs must navigate daily.  

Teneo Risk Advisory helps organizations protect their most valuable assets: people, information, and infrastructure. Our tenet is prevention, problem-solving, and partnership with our clients. We provide comprehensive strategic guidance to build risk awareness, resiliency, and mitigation and bring an added dimension to our clients’ risk-management capabilities. Our core offerings are Risk Intelligence, Corporate Resilience, Public Safety, and Cyber Security Risk Management.  

We work directly with CEOs of major global corporations and their leadership teams, including a large percentage of Fortune 100 firms, on some of the highest-profile strategic engagements; we hold our people and work to the highest standard.  

 Job Description:  

 An Associate within Teneo Risk Advisory is a core team member, leveraging project management and consulting experience in supporting and developing critical client deliverables. As an Associate, you are responsible for working with the Risk Advisory team to create internal division management deliverables, project plans, project tracking mechanisms, and other critical client-facing deliverables as part of our risk intelligence and resilience advisory mandates. The Associate will also have an opportunity to work on client teams to deliver client work, with a particular focus on supporting Risk Intelligence-focused workstreams and engagements. This will include digital and threat intelligence monitoring and analysis, investigative research, reputational risk analysis, and domestic and global security research and analysis.  

The primary focus areas of this role will consist of monitoring and analyzing critical open-source intelligence, including mainstream and fringe social media platforms, and conducting research and analysis to assess potential risks to organizations and executives. As part of this effort, you will attend key team and client meetings to better understand the client’s business operations and threat landscape. 

Responsibilities of an Associate – Risk Intelligence include: 

• Assist with client engagements and workstreams related to Risk Intelligence, particularly open-source intelligence monitoring of security, operational, and reputational threats and emerging risks to Teneo clients.  

• Produce and support the development of high-quality written analysis for a range of products. 

• Support fast-paced risk intelligence requirements with timely review of a range of sources to produce intelligence reports quickly and accurately.  

• Assist project teams with monitoring and analyzing emerging threats, working with project leads to understand how threats might impact our clients in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.  

Qualifications: 

• 2 to 4 years of experience as a consultant or intelligence/risk professional in either private or public-sector security  

• Education - Bachelor’s degree from a top-tier college or university 

• Prior experience with a management consulting firm or risk management consulting firm is desirable 

• Experience with open-source intelligence and social media analysis tools, including deep and dark web platforms; experience conducting advanced internet-based research using Boolean logic. 

• A strong understanding of international and domestic threat actors, cyber threat actors, and the domestic and geopolitical threat landscape is preferred 

• Critical to this position are strong writing and communication skills and the ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with multiple competing priorities and deliverables  

• Proven problem-solving skills and the ability to identify, analyze and resolve problems, driving solutions through to resolution 

• Maintains an entrepreneurial spirit and is innovative by nature – in ideas, approaches, products, etc. and approaches complex issues with intellectual rigor and good judgment

What We Offer 

As a Teneo employee, your compensation is performance based and you will enjoy unique benefits including flexible time off policy; medical, dental, and vision coverage; long-term disability, and life insurance; a 401K plan; commuter benefits; team events; snacks; and other perks. 

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion 

Teneo is an equal opportunity employer and promotes a diverse and inclusive workplace. Teneo considers all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, disability, veteran status, gender identity, genetic information, or sexual orientation or any other status protected by applicable law. 

Base Salary Range $90,000 - $100,000 (compensation for this role will depend on several factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies, and experience that may fall outside of the range listed). 

Bonus Eligible Yes 

Total Compensation Package Includes annualized bonus, 401k match, healthcare coverage and a broad range of additional benefits and rewards. 

Flexible Work Policy Teneo believes in in-person collaboration when possible and if you are assigned to the New York office, the company expectation is for employees to work from the office location a minimum of three times a week.