Americas Security Lead Intelligence Analyst - Associate Director

Americas Security Lead Intelligence Analyst

The opportunity  

The Intelligence Analyst leads strategic and tactical threat intelligence efforts in partnership with the Americas and Global Security teams, with a focus on priorities in the Americas. The role supports EY’s security mission by collecting, assessing, and reporting relevant intelligence to help protect personnel, facilities, assets, and reputation. The analyst monitors emerging national and international security concerns and delivers written analyses and briefings to support security programs and crisis management operations.

Your key responsibilities 

• Monitor & track incidents for area situational awareness related to core security disciplines (i.e. Executive Protection, Crisis Response, Emergency Preparedness, Business Continuity, Travel Security, Physical Security, Meetings & Events Security)
• Conduct comprehensive all-source monitoring, collection and analysis of threats potentially impacting firm assets in the Americas and communicate the information in a timely and accurate manner.
• Produce tactical risk assessments and various other reporting as needed for threats potentially impacting firm assets in the Americas.
• Collaborate with Regional Security personnel and other business partners to determine incident and threat impacts to the firm and collaborate with other business units on appropriate response.
• Gain and maintain an understanding of key area stakeholders’ top concerns (Region leadership, Region Security Managers and other relevant partners) and produce security assessments and incident/situational reporting based on requirements.
• Identify priority risk areas (e.g., geopolitical tensions, terrorism, political instability, civil unrest, crime, natural disasters) to help define top organizational concerns.
• Support the Americas Travel and Meetings & Events Security processes.
• Remain current on security and intelligence topics.
• Help develop continuous improvement and industry best practices regarding threat intelligence assessment & escalation protocols. 
• Build relationships with other corporate and government intelligence teams to share methodologies and analysis to better support the wide variety of our firm’s business groups.
• Build, maintain and leverage relationships with key external agencies, local/federal law enforcement, intelligence/military agencies and other public and private entities.

Skills and attributes for success 

• Ability to analyze the business environment, geographical variations, security requirements and stakeholder expectations.
• Capacity to be a self-starter, capable of readily managing and switching between multiple tasks and working with minimal supervision.
• Advanced open-source research skills; knowledge of social media resources for proactive intelligence collection.
• Analytic experience within the Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) community, and previous experience with law enforcement, the intelligence community, the military, security consulting, corporate security or enhanced due diligence.
• Technical expertise and experience in information gathering from open sources, government or vendor reporting, social media and/or public or private sector partnership networks. Proficient knowledge of popular media sites (Twitter, Facebook, etc.) is essential.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Executive presentation skills with an ability to brief C-suite level personnel with demonstrated experience.
• Experience utilizing AI tools to further enhance and create efficiencies in intelligence reporting.
• Demonstrated research and critical thinking skills to identify, collect, synthesize, and evaluate large amounts of data and draw logical and actionable conclusions.
• Understanding and experience intel