Overview

Senior Consultant, Cyber, FS

You are required to be onsite 3 times per week in your local office which can be Edinburgh, Bristol or London.

At EY, you’ll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are, with the global scale, support, inclusive culture and technology to become the best version of you. Join us and build an exceptional experience for yourself, and a better working world for all.

It is an exciting time for our Financial Services Cyber Security practice. We’re looking for Senior Consultants to join our expanding team of professionals to help us deliver the exceptional client experience.

The opportunity

EY’s EMEIA Cyber Practice is rapidly growing and the UK team is looking for a Cyber Security Senior Consultant 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. Professionals also actively improve operational efficiency on projects and internal initiatives, in line with EY’s commitment to quality.
• Your role will require you to deliver engagements with teams of different sizes under the guidance of Managers and Senior Managers. 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

• 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 EY 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

People responsibilities

• Develop people through effectively supervising, coaching, and mentoring staff
• Conduct performance reviews and contribute to performance feedback for staff
• Contribute to people initiatives including recruiting, retaining, and training Cyber professionals

Skills and attributes for success

• Broad cyber security experience with a combination of technology involvement, business knowledge and risk awareness
• 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, NIST CRI), 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 (PRA, FCA, BoE, ECB, MAS)
• Awareness of security frameworks, standards and regulations within the UK Financial Services sector (ISO27001, NIST SP800-53, PCI-DSS, DORA, etc.)
• 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 and Cloud related qualifications such as: CISSP, CISA, CRISC, CRISK, CCSP, CCSK, TOGAF, SABSA, and/or vendor architectural qualifications in AWS, Azure and/or GCP is a plus
• Experience with Microsoft Security Copilot, gen AI, LLM, ChatGPT, etc.

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. Saviynt, Entra ID, SailPoint)
• Endpoint security (e.g. Defender, Tanium, CrowdStrike)
• Security Information & Event Management (SIEM) (e.g. Sentinel, Splunk, QRadar)
• Cloud Security (CASB/CSPM) (e.g. CASB, Zscaler)
• Security Orchestration & Response (SOAR) (e.g. Palo Alto, IBM)
• Data Loss Protection and Data protection (e.g. Purview, Symantec)
• Security assessments related to threat, vulnerability and penetration testing (e.g. MITRE, CBEST, Tiber)

What we look for

We look for candidates with experience in the industry, that can prove their knowledge of Cyber regulations and frameworks in the UK. We are looking for people with the motivation and ambition to lead teams and the communication skills required to interact with clients.

What we offer

• Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

If you can demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

The exceptional EY experience. It’s yours to build.

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