What are the responsibilities and job description for the Cybersecurity position at West Monroe?
West Monroe is hiring a Cybersecurity, Senior Manager to lead full lifecycle projects for Financial Services clients, including but not limited to security controls audits & remediation, risk advisory, compliance assessments, threat hunting, resiliency planning, application & cloud security, and/or strategy & roadmap development. Senior managers engage directly with client leadership to understand their IT structure and systems, identify security flaws, and lead teams in hardening the environment. This is an exciting opportunity to join a high-growth firm with an employee-centric culture and lead the improvement of security posture across complex FinServ environments—Enterprise Banking, Private Equity, Wealth Management, Trading, etc.
Responsibilities:
- Provide strategic cybersecurity consulting services for clients within our FinServ portfolio, ranging from policy definition to solution implementation & adoption
- Manage client relationships to determine project requirements and provide status updates; translate requirements into concrete proposals, including detailed work plans and cost estimates
- Leverage industry-recognized frameworks to lead risk assessments & controls audits of existing organization– compliance adherence, IT processes, personnel, technologies/tools– while developing implementation strategies and roadmaps to guide solution(s) delivery
- Lead junior consultants on projects, delegate workstreams, and act as career advisor/mentor
- Promote thought leadership in emerging Cybersecurity/FinServ technologies and trends through writing blogs & white papers, attending industry events, and contributing to Centers of Excellence
- Assist with business development at existing clients, looking for opportunities to cross-sell solutions
- Actively build a professional & affiliate network in Consulting, Cybersecurity, FinServ, and/or broader Tech communities
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in relevant field preferred or equivalent experience required
- Consulting firm/industry experience preferred
- 10 years of experience in Cybersecurity w/ preference for Financial Services’ industry exposure
- Adept at leading IT risk assessments & controls audits using frameworks like NIST CSF
- Well-versed in leveraging compliance & privacy frameworks: PCI DSS, SOX, ISO/IEC 27001, GDPR
- Experience leading/ delivering end-to-end solutions: people/consultant management, strategy/roadmap, design, solution development, implementation, change management, etc.
- Excellent verbal, presentation, facilitation, and written communication skills
- Willingness to travel for client engagements, COVID-19 permitting
- Bonus – BD/PD, Cloud Hardening (AWS/Azure), AppSec, Ransomware, M&A, IT Infrastructure
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West Monroe is a digital services firm that partners with companies in transformative industries to deliver quantifiable financial value. We believe that digital is a mindset and it’s something companies become, not something they do. We bring together diverse, multidisciplinary teams that use their expertise to develop and execute new ideas and ways of working.
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