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About the Role

CRA’s Forensic Services practice supports companies’ commitment to integrity by assisting them and their counsel in independently responding to allegations of fraud, waste, abuse, misconduct, and non-compliance. We are noted for deploying cross-trained teams of forensic professionals to assist our clients in gaining deeper insights and greater value more quickly. We provide accounting and forensic services as well as cybercrime investigation services. CRA is seeking a Cybersecurity Consultant (Assessments / Due Diligence / Advisory) to support client engagements focused on evaluating and managing cybersecurity risk. In this role, you will lead and participate in client-facing assessments, including interviews, workshops, and executive readouts, while operating with a high degree of independence and confidence.

Responsibilities

Translate client discussions into clearly defined engagement scopes and Statements of Work (SOWs), aligning deliverables with frameworks such as the NIST CSF and transaction-specific objectives.
Assess cybersecurity posture in transaction and investment contexts, distinguish material risks from broader program maturity gaps, and tailor findings to the needs of private equity, legal, and executive stakeholders.
Execute cyber due diligence and proactive security assessments through documentation review, stakeholder interviews, and control evaluation.
Support incident readiness reviews, tabletop exercises, and broader cyber resilience assessments to help clients evaluate preparedness, decision-making, and recovery capabilities before or after a cyber event.
Work closely with CRA’s incident response team to identify recurring risk themes and control gaps from active and recently closed matters, and help translate those observations into follow-on proactive engagements including gap assessments, tabletop exercises, resilience reviews, and broader security uplift efforts.
Produce high-quality, client-ready reports that include prioritized findings, risk-based recommendations, and executive-level summaries.
Support senior team members in proposal development and business development efforts, while bridging technical cybersecurity findings into clear business risk narratives for legal, private equity, and executive audiences.
Contribute to the development of repeatable assessment methodologies, templates, and client-facing deliverables across CRA’s proactive cybersecurity service offerings.

Requirements

Approximately 5–7 years of experience in cybersecurity consulting, advisory, or due diligence
Experience supporting cyber resilience assessments, incident readiness reviews, tabletop exercises, or related preparedness-focused engagements is a plus.
Experience collaborating with incident response, forensic, or crisis management teams to translate post-incident observations into proactive assessment, readiness, or remediation-focused engagements is a plus.
Comfortable leading discussions with CIOs, IT Directors, and legal stakeholders
Strong ability to guide conversations, ask structured questions, and manage meetings effectively
Excellent executive communication skills with clear, concise, and unambiguous delivery
Experience drafting or contributing to Statements of Work (SOWs), engagement letters, and proposals
Ability to translate loosely defined client needs into structured deliverables and timelines
Strong commercial awareness, including understanding scope boundaries and identifying opportunities to expand engagements
Ability to tailor scopes and findings to transaction, diligence, or investment-focused objectives, including identifying issues that are likely to be material to legal, private equity, or executive decision-makers.
Impeccable written communication skills, including grammar, structure, and formatting
Ability to produce logically consistent, defensible findings and recommendations
Experience delivering polished, client-ready cybersecurity risk reports
Ability to prioritize findings based on business impact, articulate critical versus lower-priority issues, and develop executive-ready narratives that support practical decision-making.
NIST Cybersecurity Framework (primary)
Supporting frameworks such as CIS Benchmarks, ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, and HITRUST
Strong working knowledge of ability to map controls, identify gaps, and translate findings into business risk and impact
Ability to evaluate how controls operate together across governance, identity, endpoint, cloud, recovery, and monitoring layers as part of a broader security program or resilience assessment.
Identity & Access Management (e.g., Active Directory, Entra ID)
Endpoint security (e.g., EDR/MDR solutions such as CrowdStrike)
Vulnerability management tools (e.g., Tenable, Qualys)
Backup and recovery strategies (RTO/RPO, immutability)
Email security (phishing protection, DMARC, MFA)
Asset inventory, device management, and patch lifecycle practices
Comfort reviewing supporting documentation such as security policies and standards, architecture diagrams, control evidence, recovery procedures, and technical configurations in order to assess design and operating effectiveness.
Broad understanding of core cybersecurity domains
Ability to connect these domains into a comprehensive security program narrative
Exposure to tools such as CrowdStrike, Tanium, Microsoft 365, Azure/Entra ID, and AWS.
Ability to evaluate and interpret tooling deployment, configuration, and coverage in an advisory context rather than operate as a dedicated implementation engineer.
Strong organizational and time management skills, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously
High level of ownership, attention to detail, and ability to deliver work independently with minimal oversight
Ability to help develop reusable assessment content, templates, and client-ready materials that support scalable proactive service delivery across multiple engagement types.
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Skills

Cybersecurity consulting
Advisory
Due diligence
Cyber resilience assessments
Incident readiness reviews
Tabletop exercises
Forensic teams
Crisis management teams
Client-facing assessments
Executive readouts
NIST CSF
Private equity
Legal
Executive stakeholders
Incident response
Proposal development
Business development
Identity and access management
Endpoint security
Vulnerability management
Backup and recovery
Email security
Asset management
Security program assessment
Business risk narratives
CIS Benchmarks
ISO 27001
SOC 2 Type II
HIPAA
HITRUST
Active Directory
Entra ID
CrowdStrike
Tenable
Qualys
RTO/RPO
MFA
DMARC
Security policies
Architecture diagrams
Control evidence
Recovery procedures
Technical configurations
Governance
Cloud
Monitoring
Tanium
Microsoft 365
Azure
AWS
CISSP
CISM
CISA
PMP

Location

Canada

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

5-7 years

Salary/Compensations

CAD$140,000 – $190,000

Benefits

Robust skills development programs (100 hours of training annually)
Research and analysis skill building
Technical training
Presentation skills
Internal seminars
Career mentoring and performance coaching
Leadership and collaboration opportunities
Comprehensive total rewards program
Superior benefits package
Wellness programming (physical, mental, emotional, and financial well-being)
In-house immigration support for foreign nationals and international business travelers
Extended medical, dental, and vision insurance
ERP with employer contribution
TFSP
RESP
Life and disability insurance
Paid time off (vacation, sick leave, holidays)
Paid parental leave
Wellness programs and employee assistance resources
Commuter benefits

About the Company

CRA is a leading global consulting firm that provides independent economic and financial analysis behind litigation matters, guides businesses through critical strategy and operational issues to become more profitable, and advises governments on the economic impact of policies and regulations.
Our two main services – economic and management consulting – are delivered by practice groups that focus on specific areas of expertise or industries.

Equal Opportunity

Charles River Associates is an equal opportunity employer (EOE). All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.