Audit Consultant

Leonardo UK Ltd; Bristol; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hours

Hybrid working

Generous leave + flexi-days

Pension scheme

Mental health support

Bonus scheme

Access to online courses

Private healthcare options

Referral program

Job summary

Leonardo UK Ltd is seeking an Audit Consultant to join the Cyber & Security Solutions Division in Bristol. The role focuses on assessing cyber maturity and compliance and guiding customers to remediate security issues aligned with their objectives.

The position offers blended hybrid working across home and on-site at Leonardo offices for collaboration. You will work within a team of consultants and engineers, contributing to risk-based assessments and the development of secure, scalable

Qualifications

• Core consulting skills including client relations, adaptability, reliability and timely delivery.
• Studying towards recognised Cyber Security certification or equivalent hands-on experience.
• Experience managing multiple stakeholders with empathy and balance between listening and speaking.

Responsibilities

• Relate with customers to understand their problems and build trust.
• Define potential solutions based on limited information and expertise.
• Use a risk-based approach to frame threats in relation to client objectives.
• Define proportionate security solutions across people, process and technology.
• Assist in assessments of the customer environment against criteria across people, process and technology.
• Contribute to building offerings and product development for customer use.

Skills

Core consulting skills

Client relations

Adaptability

Team player

Ambitious/creative drive

Willingness to mentor juniors

Stakeholder management

Listening and empathy

Education

Cyber security certification (in progress)

Job description

Your impact Leonardo UK is seeking an Audit Consultant to join the Cyber & Security Solutions Division team. This role is focused on assessing the cyber maturity and compliance level of an organisation and helping customers with remediating security issues in a proportionate manner that is tied to the their objectives. Your work at Leonardo UK will see you contribute to solving customer problems in an agile, innovative and team-centric manner. The role may involve a blended hybrid working model, with a mixture of working from home and working on site at one of our Leonardo offices to ensure close collaboration with the wider team and with our customers.

What you will do as a Consultant

Relate - Our customers and their problem are at the heart of what we do, as a Consultant you will help to actively listen and empathise with our customers to build intimacy.

Understand – We add value by solving problems, as a Consultant you will help define potential solutions to these problems with only limited information based on your experience and technical knowledge.

Assess – At Leonardo we adopt a risk-based approach to any security problem. As a Consultant you will need to understand and frame threats and other security concepts through the language of risk to help customers to make the link back to their objectives.

Treat – Managing risk is the technical core of our offering. As a Consultant you will assist in defining appropriate and proportionate security solutions across people, process and technology, showing how those solutions enable customers to achieve their objectives.

Assure – Giving our customers confidence that security is where it needs to be is a key requirement across heavily regulated industries. As a Consultant you will assist in defining, implementing and performing assessments of our customer’s environment against a given set of criteria spanning people, process and technology.

Develop – All our offerings are based on a core set of products. As a consultant you will assist in building a viable offering as part of the Leonardo business winning process for a customer as well as help in the technical development of our products to be used across our customer sectors.

What you’ll bring

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of significant programmes, during which you will ensure that products meet the highest standards, in accordance with customer’s requirements and risk appetite. You will be supported in this role as part of a larger team of consultants, engineers and product domain specialists.

In addition to a passion for cyber and information security, you really must have:

• Skills Core consulting skills – building client relations; adaptability to changing schedules; reliability and quality of task delivery; flexibility in working hours and locations; team player.
• Qualifications Studying towards a recognised professional certification in Cyber Security or directly equivalent hands‑on experience.
• Knowledge and Demonstrable Experience Experience of and ability to manage multiple stakeholders and their needs with empathy, finding an appropriate balance of listening and speaking.
• An ambitious and creative drive to help safeguard UK national infrastructure and become a recognised cyber expert.
• Willingness to gain experience in the development and mentoring of junior team members.
• Basic understanding of security compliance & basic knowledge of a control framework such as NIST SP800-53 and ISO270002, IEC62443.
• Basic understanding of security maturity & basic knowledge of a security maturity framework such as NIST CSF Implementation Tiers, C2M2 and NCSC CAF.
• Experience of assisting with managing project delivery and associated metrics such as time, cost and quality.
• Willingness to gain experience in measuring compliancy of an organisation or digital system against a given set of security criteria.

This is not an exhaustive list, and we are keen to hear from you even if you might not have experience in all the above. The most important skill is a good attitude and willingness to learn.

Security Clearance

This role is subject to pre-employment screening in line with the UK Government’s Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). An additional range of Personnel Security Controls referred to as National Security Vetting (NSV) may apply, this could include meeting the eligibility requirements for The Security Check (SC) or Developed Vetting (DV). For more information and guidance please visit: https://careers.uk.leonardo.com/gb/en/security-and-vetting

Why join us

• Time to Recharge: Enjoy generous leave with the opportunity to accrue up to 12 additional flexi-days each year.
• Secure your Future: Benefit from our award-winning pension scheme with up to 15% employer contribution.
• Your Wellbeing Matters: Free access to mental health support, financial advice, and employee-led networks championing inclusion and diversity (Enable, Pride, Equalise, Armed Forces, Carers, Wellbeing and Ethnicity).
• Rewarding Performance: All employees at management level and below are eligible for our bonus scheme.
• Never Stop Learning: Free access to 4,000+ online courses via Coursera and LinkedIn Learning.
• Refer a friend: Receive a financial reward through our referral programme.
• Tailored Perks: Spend up to £500 annually on flexible benefits including private healthcare, dental, family cover, tech & lifestyle discounts, gym memberships and more.
• Flexible working: Flexible hours with hybrid working options. For part time opportunities, please talk to us about what might be possible for this role. For a full list of our company benefits please visit our website.

Leonardo UK operates a grade-based salary framework with broad bands. The salary range shown reflects the approved grade band for this role, or a narrower hiring range published within that band, and is benchmarked against the external market. Exceptions above the standard range are managed through governance controls to protect internal equity.

Leonardo is a global leader in Aerospace, Defence, and Security. Headquartered in Italy, we employ over 53,000 people worldwide including 8,500 across 9 sites in the UK. Our employees are not just part of a team—they are key contributors to shaping innovation, advancing technology, and enhancing global safety. At Leonardo we are committed to building an inclusive, accessible, and welcoming workplace. We believe that a diverse workforce sparks creativity, drives innovation, and leads to better outcomes for our people and our customers. If you have any accessibility requirements to support you during the recruitment process, just let us know.

Primary Location: GB - Bristol - Coldharbour Lane

Additional Locations: GB - Luton - Cap. Green 300

Contract Type: Permanent

Hybrid Working: Hybrid International, multicultural, innovative, technological: this is Leonardo.

The company’s passionate and talented team is strongly influenced by STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) expertise, with a diverse range of experience that enables colleagues to share knowledge and know-how across the generations. Leonardo always wants to expand its talent pool, here you can find the right opportunity for you!