Cybersecurity Manager - European Growth Platform - 6 months contract

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. And we’re counting on your unique voice and perspective to help EY become even better, too. Join us and build an exceptional experience for yourself, and a better working world for all.

The Opportunity

Cyber Security is one of the most important risks facing businesses today. Systems and processes are becoming increasingly interconnected and automated and many organizations are now reliant upon technology to drive business strategy and growth. As the reliance on technology grows, the risks increase also. For leading companies across all sectors, Cybersecurity is now a critical board agenda item. Our clients are overwhelmingly turning to EY for help and guidance on how to protect their assets, minimise business disruption and improve security as they continue to exploit technology and the Internet of things (IoT).

That’s why at EY we have ambitious plans to expand our already market leading Cybersecurity practice. With investment secured, we continue to build our European cyber practice and anticipate continued growth throughout the next five years. We need excellent people, across all grades, to join us and to be part of our exciting growth strategy.

Being part of a dynamic, growing organisation offers an exciting career path full of opportunity. EY’s European Cyber Practice is part of a global cyber team of over 1600 professions focused on delivering leading edge information security assessment, security transformation programmes, cyber threat management, identity and access management, data protection and privacy, and resilience services. We are part of a wider advisory organisation that collectively comprise a $7.5 billion and growing, global advisory practice with 50,000 professionals. With an overall global Advisory market of $150 billion, there’s tremendous potential for growth – and we’re prepared to tap into that potential.

Your Key Responsibilities

To be a Manager supporting the growth our European Cybersecurity practice you will already be working as a security practitioner and ideally have had some exposure to supporting senior leadership within a cyber practice. You will have dual responsibilities, you will lead cyber security assessments and manage teams to deliver security programmes, often with limited supervision; and you will also be supporting EY’s European Cyber Leadership team in the day-to-day running of a pan-European Cyber business.

You will not be expected to have significant experience of business development and sales but will be expected to identify opportunities, supporting the Senior Manager community in go to market and contribute to sales activity to win new business for the team. Highly motivated, a good communicator you will need to convey technical content in business language with senior management. You’ll also need to be a team player who is not only looking to enhance their own career, but recognises the value in developing others and strengthening the team. You will have responsibility for;

• Take a leading role on a broad range of initiatives in the support of activating our Cyber Strategy
• Support Partner engagement and communications across EY’s European Cyber Teams
• Support the Governance of the European Cyber Practice
• Identify and contribute to strategic and operational projects and analysis
• Leading a portfolio of cyber engagements with our clients, reporting to a Senior Manager or Director, responsible for the day to day running of the engagements and the quality of the teams output
• Managing and creating reports and via review ensuring the highest quality deliverables prior to Senior Manager’s / Director’s review.
• Contributing to developing the market for Cyber Security services across all sectors and identify sales opportunities and escalating these to senior management
• Establishing client relationships with senior stakeholders across the FTSE 350 market
• Working with prospective clients to agree, scope and plan the delivery phase of engagements
• Contributing to the creation of proposals and marketing material
• Managing engagements to time and budget
• Contributing to the development of the existing cyber risk team acting as mentor and coach to the junior members of the team and leading by example

Skills and attributes for success

Experience in information and cyber security is essential for this role. A Big 4 background or comparable consulting experience is advantageous, although some of our strongest performers come directly from industry therefore candidates with excellent industry experience and demonstrable success managing transformation workstreams and proven experience of conducting cyber discussions at senior management are also encouraged to apply.

• A broad background across security is expected with specific experience in 1 or more of the following areas essential;
• Security strategy, assessment, designing and implementing security strategy, governance frameworks over processes, controls, organisation and infrastructure to management cyber security
• Security transformation programmes – design and management of security solution implementations and / or remediation programmes to address risks across AV, patching, secure build, vulnerability scanning & remediation, logging and monitoring, segregation, threat management, user awareness
• Security policies and procedures, design and implementation of security policies, procedures, standards and controls in line with regulation and/or current standards, ISO27001, NIST, SANS etc.
• Data privacy, implementation of data protection / GDPR programmes to address confidentiality and security over customer, employee or patient data.
• Cyber awareness programmes, design and delivery of cyber security awareness programmes to executive level or wider organisation
• Experience in working within agile development environments to embed security successfully into systems prior to product / production release

Qualifications

• Strong academic record, to degree level or equivalent industry experience
• Security relation qualifications such as CISSP, CISM, CISMP, ISO27001 lead implementer or auditor, MBCI, IAPP(desirable)
• Project and programme related qualifications; Prince II, Scrum, Agile

What we look for

Highly motivated, a good communicator you will need to convey technical content in business language with senior management. You’ll also need to be a team player who is not only looking to enhance their own career but recognises the value in developing others and strengthening the team. Given the dual nature of the role the ability to manage workload and prioritise tasks is essential, however you will get exposure to how a multi-million-dollar business operates. Your learning will include:

• A detailed understanding of the economics of our business and our financial levers.
• How senior leaders across our Global, and EMEIA firms operate, make decisions and build our growth strategy.
• What it takes to manage a business in rapid growth – both the opportunities and challenges
• The ability to drive and shape a range of business transformation initiatives, from Market, to People to external Brand.
• Direct ‘on job’ coaching from the European Cyber Leadership team.

What we offer

We offer a competitive remuneration package where you’ll be rewarded for your individual and team performance. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions.

• 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.

EY is committed to being an inclusive employer and we are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. We strive to achieve the right balance for our people, enabling us to deliver excellent client service whilst allowing you to build your career without sacrificing your personal priorities. While our client-facing professionals can be required to travel regularly, and at times be based at client sites, our flexible working arrangements can help you to achieve a lifestyle balance.

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

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