Cybersecurity - Financial Services (FSO) - Senior Consultant

EY; Calgary; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 136,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Mental health benefits

Employee Assistance Program

Group savings plans

Paid time off and holidays

Volunteer opportunities

Job summary

EY Calgary seeks a Senior Consultant to work with large organizations, evaluating how cybersecurity capabilities are designed, implemented, governed, measured, automated, and sustained within complex environments. You will lead assessments and translate findings into practical recommendations.

The role requires deep knowledge of cyber risk, governance, and multiple frameworks, plus strong written communication and stakeholder facilitation skills.

Qualifications

• Hands‑on experience delivering cybersecurity maturity, capability, risk, controls, assurance, or transformation assessments.
• Demonstrated ability to independently lead a workstream or assessment domain from information gathering through final reporting.
• Working knowledge of common cyber and IT frameworks, with the ability to apply outcomes to real capabilities and environments.
• Broad understanding across multiple cybersecurity domains with depth in two or three areas.
• Experience facilitating stakeholder interviews or workshops and communicating with technical and senior leaders.
• Strong analytical judgment and ability to form conclusions from incomplete or varied information.
• Excellent written communication including findings, recommendations and executive summaries.

Responsibilities

• Own assigned cybersecurity domains through assessment planning, artifact requests, document review, stakeholder workshops, maturity analysis, quality review, and reporting.
• Translate framework outcomes into practical, capability-based assessment criteria for the client environment.
• Review policies, standards, procedures, architectures, inventories, metrics and reports to understand the current state.
• Plan and facilitate interviews and workshops with cybersecurity leaders, engineers, risk teams, and owners.
• Draft concise current-state observations, maturity rationales and practical recommendations.
• Prepare executive-ready materials and support client leadership presentations.
• Guide Consultants, review workpapers and maintain cross-domain consistency; elevate issues early.
• Contribute to refining assessment methodologies and reusable intellectual property.

Skills

Cybersecurity maturity

Assessment leadership

Framework knowledge

Stakeholder facilitation

Executive communication

Analytical judgment

Mentor/coach junior team

Education

CISSP/CISM/CRISC/CISA (certifications)

Tools

NIST CSF 2.0

NIST SP 800-53

ISO 27001/27002

COBIT

Job description

At EY, we’re all in to shape your future with confidence. We’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go. Join EY and help to build a better working world.

The opportunity

The Senior Consultant will work with large, complex organizations to evaluate how effectively cybersecurity capabilities are designed, implemented, governed, measured, automated, and sustained. The role is broader than compliance mapping or control testing. It requires the ability to understand how people, process, technology, governance, and risk considerations work together across an enterprise cybersecurity program.

This job posting relates to an existing vacancy within our organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Own assigned cybersecurity domains through assessment planning, artifact requests, document review, stakeholder workshops, maturity analysis, quality review, and reporting.
• Translate framework outcomes and other industry guidance into practical, capability-based assessment criteria appropriate to the client environment.
• Review policies, standards, procedures, operating models, architectures, inventories, metrics, reports, and technical documentation to understand the current state.
• Plan and facilitate interviews and workshops with cybersecurity leaders, architects, engineers, risk teams, and control or capability owners.
• Ask targeted follow‑up questions, appropriately challenge unsupported statements, and identify where further validation is required.
• Synthesize stakeholder input, artifacts, metrics, and technical context into consistent and defensible maturity conclusions.
• Draft concise current‑state observations, maturity rationales, opportunities for improvement, risk implications, and practical recommendations.
• Connect detailed domain findings to broader themes, business impacts, target‑state considerations, and prioritized improvement actions.
• Prepare clear, executive‑ready materials and support presentations to client leadership.
• Guide Consultants, review draft analyses and workpapers, maintain consistency across domains, and elevate issues early.
• Contribute to the refinement of assessment methodologies, capability libraries, reporting approaches, and reusable intellectual property.

To qualify for the role you must have

• Hands‑on experience delivering cybersecurity maturity, capability, risk, controls, assurance, or transformation assessments.
• Demonstrated ability to independently lead a workstream or assessment domain from information gathering through final reporting.
• Working knowledge of common cyber and IT frameworks, with the ability to explain how framework outcomes apply to real cybersecurity capabilities and operating environments.
• Broad understanding across multiple cybersecurity domains, with meaningful depth in at least two or three areas.
• Experience facilitating stakeholder interviews or workshops and communicating with both technical practitioners and senior leaders.
• Strong analytical judgment, including the ability to form supportable conclusions from incomplete, varied, or conflicting information.
• Excellent written communication skills, including findings, recommendations, presentations, and executive summaries.
• Ability to manage multiple domains, stakeholders, and deliverables while maintaining quality and consistency.
• Experience coaching junior team members and reviewing their work.

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Experience applying NIST CSF 2.0, including Functions, Categories, Subcategories, Current Profiles, and Target Profiles.
• Familiarity with NIST SP 800‑53, CIS Controls, ISO/IEC 27001 and 27002, COBIT, CRI Profile, CSA CCM, or related cyber‑risk frameworks.
• Experience in banking, insurance, payments, or another highly regulated and federated enterprise environment.
• Familiarity with Canadian financial‑services expectations such as OSFI B‑13 or other relevant regulatory guidance.
• Experience developing maturity models, target states, cyber roadmaps, benchmarking insights, or transformation recommendations.
• Relevant cybersecurity or risk certification such as CISSP, CISM, CRISC, CISA, ISO 27001, CCSP, or equivalent credential. Certifications are considered supporting qualifications rather than a substitute for practical delivery experience.

Cybersecurity domain coverage

Candidates are not expected to be specialists in every domain. The strongest profiles will demonstrate depth in selected areas and working fluency across several others.

Governance and risk

Cyber governance, policy and standards, security metrics, second‑line cyber risk, third‑party risk, privacy

Identity and data

IAM, PAM, customer identity, data protection, data security, cryptography

Applications and engineering

Application security, API security, DevSecOps, secure software development, cloud security, AI security

Infrastructure and operations

Network security, endpoint security, vulnerability management, configuration management, asset management

Detection and resilience

Security operations, threat management, incident response, insider risk, forensics, disaster recovery, business continuity

What We Look For

We’re interested in intellectually curious people with a genuine passion for cybersecurity. If you have the confidence in both your presentation and technical abilities to grow into a leading expert here, this is the role for you.

What We Offer You

The EY benefits package is designed to support your physical, emotional, financial, and social wellbeing. Our extensive benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage, as well as mental health benefits, a robust Employee Assistance Program and group savings plans to promote your overall wellbeing. We offer generous time off, including personal days, vacation days, and additional firm‑wide holidays, along with the option to purchase extra vacation days. Employees can take advantage of EY's exclusive learning programs tailored just for them. We also provide internal opportunities for career development and advancement, enabling you to grow within the firm. Get involved in meaningful volunteering through EY Ripples and make a positive impact in the community.

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