United States, Michigan, Policy Analyst jobs

Legislative & Regulatory Policy, Assistant Director or Associate Director

As a Legislative & Regulatory Policy Assistant Director or Associate Director, you’ll be responsible for assisting the legislative and regulatory teams within the Office of Public Policy; monitoring, communicating, and shaping legislative and public policy activity. Must have demonstrated experience understanding policy-making processes and ability to develop written content for internal use in a fast-paced, deadline-oriented environment. Also must have strong professional networking and public policy advocacy skills.

Your key responsibilities

• Assists team with development and execution of the EY Office of Public Policy strategy, including engagement with Washington policymakers and other stakeholders.
• Develop subject matter expertise in policy areas critical to the firm, including covering congressional hearings and other related events as warranted.
• Produces written deliverables for internal use and distribution.
• At times, assists EY legislative team and/or EYPAC representative in political activities relevant to the firm’s priorities.
• Responsible for communications distribution channel management.

Skills and attributes for success

• Demonstrated understanding of US congressional and administration policy-making processes, including an understanding of the roles and decision makers in the Executive agencies, the White House, the Senate and the House, as well as the role of think tanks and associations.
• Proven research, writing and editing skills.
• Ability to work under tight deadlines.
• Able to learn and utilize communication tools and techniques available within the firm
• Ability to work with minimal supervision in a fast-paced, deadline-oriented environment
• Receives general supervision and works independently within the area of expertise.
• Must be able to independently monitor events, understand critical points and summarize for distribution within EY.
• Through monitoring of legislative and public policy issues that affect the profession, be able to anticipate policy trends and help formulate advocacy strategies.

To qualify for the role, you must have

• A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• 8-10 plus years of relevant experience, experience on Capitol Hill, lobbying or regulatory policy for the Assistant Director rank.
• 10-12 plus years of experience years of relevant experience, experience on Capitol Hill, lobbying or regulatory policy for the Associate Director rank.
• Must be able to attend EY and client events some evenings and weekends.
• Ability to work in the EY Washington DC office multiple days a week.

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Financial services policy experience a plus.

What we look for

We’re interested in individuals with an inquisitive and agile mind and a broad and extensive knowledge of public policy. If you’re aiming to develop and implement policy strategy and influence change, all while developing your own career, this role is for you.

Your key responsibilities

• Investigate, coordinate, bring to resolution, and report on security incidents as they are brought up or identified
• Forensically analyze end user systems and servers found to have possible indicators of compromise
• Analysis of artifacts collected during a security incident/forensic analysis
• Identify security incidents through ‘Hunting’ operations within a SIEM, EDR and other relevant tools
• Interface and connect with server owners, system custodians, and IT contacts to pursue security incident response activities, including obtaining access to systems, digital artifact collection, and containment and/or remediation actions
• Provide consultation and assessment on perceived security threats
• Maintain, manage, improve and update security incident process and protocol documentation
• Regularly provide reporting and metrics on case work
• Resolution of security incidents by identifying root cause and solutions
• Analyze findings in investigative matters, and develop fact based reports
• Be on-call to deliver global incident response

Skills and attributes for success

• Resolution of security incidents by identifying root cause and solutions
• Analyze findings in investigative matters, and develop fact-based reports
• Proven integrity and judgment within a professional environment
• Ability to appropriately balance work/personal priorities
• Bachelors or Masters Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or a related field
• 7+ years experience in incident response, computer forensics analysis and/or malware reverse engineering
• Understanding of security threats, vulnerabilities, and incident response
• Understanding of electronic investigation, forensic tools, and methodologies, including: log correlation and analysis, forensically handling electronic data, knowledge of the computer security investigative processes, malware identification and analysis
• Be familiar with legalities surrounding electronic discovery and analysis
• Experience with EDR and SIEM technologies (i.e. Splunk)
• Deep understanding of both Windows and Unix/Linux based operating systems

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Hold or be willing to pursue related professional certifications such as GCFE, GCFA or GREM
• Background in security incident response in Cloud-based environments, such as Azure
• Programming skills in PowerShell, Python and/or C/C++
• Understanding of the best security practices for network architecture and server configuration

What we look for

• Demonstrated integrity in a professional environment
• Ability to work independently
• Have a global mind-set for working with different cultures and backgrounds
• Knowledgeable in business industry standard security incident response process, procedures, and life cycle
• Positive attitude and Excellent teaming skills
• Excellent social, communication, and writing skills
• Good presentation skills
• Excellent investigative, analytical, and problem-solving skills