EY Senior Consultant - Digital Forensics- Assurance 

Canada, Ontario, Toronto 

177408168

Your key responsibilities

The nature of this role means no two projects will be the same. You will balance your time between directly liaising with our clients to understand their situation and create an appropriate investigation plan to performing technical review and analysis of data. This will include investigating what happened and helping the client to determine the potential impact and how the company’s data was potentially misused. You will be helping clients assess and resolve insider threats on an ongoing basis for multiple clients at a time. That means thinking differently about the type of data misuse, identifying malicious insiders, improving the client’s data integrity, investigation methodology and mitigate privacy risks.

Skills and attributes for success

• Desire to constantly develop your understanding of our clients’ industries, identifying trends, risks and opportunities for improvement
• Understanding of multiple technologies to distribute your knowledge of leading-practices to enhance service delivery
• Ability to develop your team through constant coaching and feedback, knowledge and opportunities to grow
• Experience in large scale, complex investigations, using techniques such as digital forensics, log analysis and timeline creation have been applied
• Ability to communicate technical events and analysis to both technical and nontechnical audiences and an understanding of the potential legal impacts
• Ability to preserve network and host-based digital evidence in an industry accepted forensically sound manner
• Experience performing host-based digital forensics on Microsoft Windows and Mac based systems using both Windows and Linux based forensic tools
• Experience performing mobile-based digital forensics on Apple and Android based systems

Ideally, you’ll also have

• A bachelor’s degree, supported by approximately 5 - 7 years relevant work experience
• Achieved at least one digital forensic professional designation, such as EnCE, CCE, CCFP,GCFA, GASF, GCFE, CFCE, CCME, GREM, etc
• Excellent project management and documentation skills with the ability to prioritize when working on multiple engagements
• The ability to travel to client locations or work extended hours when necessary in order to respond to client events

• In-depth understanding of computer forensic principles including digital and mobile forensics, log analysis, cloud-based systems, database structures, querying languages and common digital forensics tools including Axiom, Cellebrite, Verakey, X-Ways, and more
• Knowledge ofdata loss prevention systemsand how they detect potential host and network-based data loss technologies or other insider threat risks
• Knowledge of Windows, Unix and Mac host-based forensics, Mobile OS’s and command line
• Global client network, experience working with fortune 500 companies, international and frequent travel opportunities
• Working knowledge of hardware configuration and network/data communications, software development and scripting, and database technology and database exploitation/forensics
• Strong experience with evidence seizure, chain of custody and conducting analysis

What we look for

We’re interested in passionate analysists, with the intellectual curiosity to actively pursue new knowledge in the rapidly changing world of digital forensics. Naturally you’ll need a firm technical foundation, as well as the ability to translate complex information into meaningful, actionable insights. But we’re not just looking for strong technical skills – we’re interested in people that have the ability to nurture relationships, both internal and external, and are committed to intimately understanding our client’s needs. If you’re looking to become part of a community of advisors where you’ll make a measurable difference across some of the most prestigious businesses around, this role is for you.

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