Senior Associate​/Recovery Services; Forensic Services practice

Position: Senior Associate/Recovery Services (Forensic Services practice)
About Charles River Associates Charles River Associates is a leading global consulting firm that provides economic, financial, and business management expertise to major law firms, corporations and governments around the world. CRA advises clients on economic and financial matters pertaining to litigation and regulatory proceedings, and guides corporations through critical business strategy and performance-related issues. Since 1965, clients have engaged CRA for its combination of industry experience and rigorous, fact-based analysis that provide clients with clear, implementable solutions to complex business concerns.

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Position Overview 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.

The Senior Associate leads incident response and recovery engagements end to end: scoping, workstream direction, client and counsel management, and delivery quality. You will own matters from intake through final report, direct consultant teams during active response, and contribute to the growth of the recovery practice through relationship development and reusable methodology. This role requires someone who has run large engagements under pressure and can represent findings credibly to executives, boards, counsel, and carriers.

Key responsibilities of the Senior Associate position include:

Lead multiple concurrent incident response, forensic investigation, and recovery engagements, owning scope, budget, staffing, and delivery quality;

Direct technical work streams across containment, forensics, identity remediation, and infrastructure recovery, setting priorities and unblocking consultant teams;

Develop evidence-based scoping and level-of-effort models for fixed-price recovery engagements, sequenced by client business priority;

Serve as primary point of contact for client executives, outside counsel, and insurance carrier representatives throughout active matters;

Own final written work product: investigation reports, executive briefings, insurance guidance memoranda, and remediation roadmaps;

Review and quality-control consultant deliverables for technical accuracy and defensibility;

Mentor and develop consulting associates and associates, including structured feedback and engagement-level coaching;

Contribute to practice development: methodology and playbook standardization, reusable engagement IP, service line definition, and thought leadership;

Support business development through carrier and law firm relationship management, proposal development, and scoping calls for inbound matters;

Desired Qualifications Bachelor's degree (Master's preferred) in Cybersecurity, Computer Science & Engineering, Digital Forensics, Management Information Systems, Security Information Systems or related field;5-7+ years in cybersecurity incident response, digital forensics, or enterprise recovery, including 3+ years leading engagements or teams;

Certifications such as CISSP, GCFA, GCIH, CISM, or equivalent; advanced degree in a relevant field a plus;

Track record leading large-scale ransomware recovery or complex intrusion matters in enterprise environments (thousands of endpoints, multi-site);

Strong command of hybrid Microsoft identity architecture (Active Directory, Entra , Conditional Access, privileged access models) at a level sufficient to…