Cybersecurity - Business Continuity Associate

About the role

PwC's Cyber Resilience team helps organizations prepare for disruption and keep delivering their most important services when unexpected events occur. As a Graduate or Associate in this advisory practice, you will support resilience assessments, business continuity and crisis management activities, and learn how organizations prepare for, respond to and recover from major disruptions.

Key responsibilities

• Help identify critical processes, systems, people and suppliers and assess the impact if they become unavailable
• Support reviews of how clients prepare for disruptions and identify gaps in their plans, processes and controls
• Support the creation of practical continuity and recovery plans
• Help develop response procedures, escalation paths and exercises
• Participate in interviews and workshops, review documentation and turn findings into clear conclusions
• Support exercises and simulations that test whether response and recovery arrangements work
• Develop assessments, presentations, reports and recommendations for improvement

Required profile

• Typically 0-4 years of experience; prior resilience or cybersecurity experience is helpful but not required
• Analytical background such as business, engineering, risk, technology or operations
• Enjoyment of understanding processes, working with stakeholders and turning complex information into structured conclusions
• Strong analytical, communication and documentation skills, attention to detail and willingness to learn

Required skills

• Knowledge of business continuity, crisis management, operational resilience or IT recovery is beneficial but can be developed on the job
• Exposure to business impact analysis and resilience testing is built up during early projects