BISO Senior Associate (UK CISO Team)

PricewaterhouseCoopers; Manchester; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global consulting firm in Manchester is looking for a Senior Associate in Cybersecurity to enhance their cybersecurity team. The role involves supporting senior leadership in security engagement, managing stakeholder relationships, and assisting in security processes. Candidates should have strong problem-solving skills, effective communication abilities, and ideally experience in a cybersecurity or risk-related role. This position does not offer visa sponsorship.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of information security with transferable skills.
• Previous experience in a similar cyber or risk role is desirable.
• Ability to manage workload and prioritize effectively.

Responsibilities

• Support Senior BISOs with engagement and relationship management.
• Assist business teams with navigating security assessment processes.
• Translate data into relatable formats for business teams.

Skills

Problem solving

Stakeholder management

Engaging communication skills

Data manipulation

Project management

Tools

PowerBI

Job description

Line of Service Internal Firm Services

Industry/Sector Technology

Specialism IFS - Information Technology (IT)

Management Level Senior Associate

Job Description & Summary

BISO Team - Senior Associate - Manchester

PwC's global cybersecurity strategy revolves around 4 key points: to identify, control, and reduce the attack surface across the member firm network, and increase our adversaries' cost of attack. Our mission protects 370,000+ PwC members across 150 member firms worldwide, along with our global clients.

The UK Business Information Security Officer (BISO) team are trusted, knowledgeable cyber specialists who reflect the pace, interest and change of our business and client requirements. They drive the security of the UK firm by acting as a vital business partnering link between the business teams and global security organisation.

We are looking to add a Senior Associate BISO to join the team to continue building their cyber security career.

Roles & Responsibilities

The role closely supports the Senior UK Business Information Security Officers (BISOs) and UK CISO with maintaining and developing engagement with both the UK firm and the wider global security community. The Senior UK BISOs are the key relationship contacts for specific area(s) of the UK firm, working closely with both the senior leadership and providing security guidance and support across the rest of the business.

The BISO Senior Associate role is primarily focused towards:

• Supporting Senior BISOs with proactive and regular engagement with, and relationship management of stakeholders
• Assisting business teams with navigating various security assessment processes and teams, providing security guidance and support
• Taking data and translating into a relatable, digestible, creative form to use with business teams
• Work with Snr BISO/CISO Leadership Team and business teams on delivering security engagement, awareness and best practices
• Assisting with identification and management of information security risk areas eg: vulnerabilities, control deficiencies etc
• Being a reliable 'go to' point of contact for business teams for security queries
• Collaboratively working/leading on delivery of project tasks

What do you ideally need for this role?

• Thrive on helping people with problem solving, stakeholder management/customer service outlook - working with business teams to achieve positive outcome
• Inquisitive nature and intuition regarding what questions to ask, when, and their relative significance - a desire and curiosity to learn
• Engaging communication skills to assist, inform, and build relationships with stakeholders in both the business and support teams, to enable effective information security activities and processes aligned to the firm's security strategy
• Previous experience in similar cyber or risk role desirable - OR, strong understanding of information security with transferable skills
• Ability to manage workload - prioritise and recognise when to elevate to management
• Intermediate to strong data manipulation and visualization skills desirable - eg: PowerBI
• An interest of PwC's business model, service offerings, and business operating environment as it pertains to the firm's threat landscape
• Project management skills desirable

Education

Degrees/Field of Study required:
Ups to personal qualifications not specified.

Certifications

Certifications not specified.

Optional Skills Accepting Feedback, Active Listening, Agile Methodology, Analytical Thinking, Azure Data Factory, Communication, Creativity, Cybersecurity, Cybersecurity Framework, Cybersecurity Policy, Cybersecurity Requirements, Cybersecurity Strategy, Embracing Change, Emotional Regulation, Empathy, Encryption Technologies, Inclusion, Intellectual Curiosity, Learning Agility, Managed Services, Optimism, Privacy Compliance, Regulatory Response, Security Architecture {+ 8 more}

Travel Requirements Up to 60%

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship? No

Government Clearance Required? No

Job Posting End Date