Cyber Security Strategy Manager

Role: Cyber Security Strategy Manager – FS

Client: Global Consulting Firm

Location: London & Remote

Salary: GBP up to 100k + Bonus + Benefits

It is an exciting opportunity to join our client’s Financial Services Cyber Security practice. We’re

The opportunity
Our client is seeking Cyber Security Managers experienced in working on a range of projects covering the breadth of Cyber Security including: Cyber Strategy Development, Cyber Programme Management and Definition, Cyber Maturity Assessments, Cyber Transformation and Cyber Risk.

You will join an expanding team of over 1,000 Cyber professionals across EMEIA and align to the UK team dedicated to providing Cyber advisory services to leading Financial Services organisations.

Your key responsibilities
UK Financial Services Cyber Security professionals draw upon their knowledge and experience to manage client engagement teams, act as an advisor to a variety of clients and contribute to business development activities on strategic and global priority accounts.

Drawing on their industry knowledge and experience, professionals provide innovative commercial insights for clients, adapt methods and practices to fit operational team and cultural needs and contribute to thought leadership.

Your role will require you to manage teams or parts of teams on engagements of different sizes under the guidance of Senior Managers and Directors. Your team will look to you to anticipate and identify risks and raise any issues with them as appropriate. As an influential member of the team, you will help to create a positive learning culture and will coach and counsel junior team members to assist in their professional development. You will lead by example and act as a role model for our people in the way that you live our values.

Client responsibilities
* Manage and deliver Cyber Security engagements
* Supporting in client business development activities, including proposal writing and presentations to potential clients
* Support senior members of the team in go-to-market activities across UK in collaboration with our European teams
* Build brand awareness and start to build key client relationships
* Assist in managing financial aspects of engagements by organising staffing, tracking fees and communicating issues to engagement partners
* Build strong internal relationships within Consulting and across other services

Skills and attributes for success
* Experience in advising Financial Services organisations on what good cyber security looks like, based on the cyber security threats and risks they face
* Pragmatic approach to identifying and explaining cyber risks within complex transformation initiatives
* Project management and delivery experience across the following Cyber Security areas: frameworks (e.g. NIST CSF, CPMI-IOSCO, ISO, ‘Profile’ – Financial Services sector-specific distillation of the NIST CSF, etc.), assessments, implementation, roadmap definition (tactical and strategic), strategy, risk identification and management, controls framework, programme management and target operating modelling
* Understanding of the Financial Services Cyber Security threat landscape and the UK Financial Services regulatory landscape (e.g. PRA, FCA, BoE, ECB, MAS)
* Awareness of security standards and regulations within the UK Financial Services sector
* Experience in supporting winning proposals and RFP responses, and working in complex multinational engagements
* Excellent communication skills, both oral and written
* Experience in people management, coaching and development of colleagues
* Security certifications such as CISSP, CISA or CISM is a plus

Ideally you’ll also have:
Some experience, and an understanding of the concepts and terminology in the following:
* Cyber Security architecture design and implementation experience, including Cloud
* Identity & Access Management (IAM) and solutions (e.g. SailPoint)
* Data Loss Protection and Data protection
* Security assessments related to threat, vulnerability and penetration testing (e.g. MITRE, CBEST, Tiber)