BISO Senior Associate (UK CISO Team)

PwC UK; Manchester; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm in Manchester is looking for a BISO Senior Associate to enhance their cybersecurity team. This role involves supporting senior officers with stakeholder engagement and providing security guidance. Candidates should possess strong problem-solving and communication skills, along with a keen interest in information security. Proficiency in data manipulation and visualization tools, particularly PowerBI, is desirable. This is a full-time position in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Thrive on helping people with problem solving and customer service.
• Inquisitive nature with a desire to learn.
• Engaging communication skills for effective relationships.
• Intermediate to strong data manipulation and visualization skills (PowerBI preferred).
• Interest in PwC’s business model and security strategy.

Responsibilities

• Support Senior BISOs with stakeholder engagement.
• Assist business teams with security assessment processes.
• Translating data into relatable formats for business teams.
• Collaborate with leadership and business teams to deliver security engagement and best practices.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Problem solving

Communication skills

Data manipulation

Understanding of information security

Tools

PowerBI

Job description

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PwC’s global cybersecurity strategy revolves around four 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 organization.

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

What your day will look like

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 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

This role is for you if

• 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 escalation to management
• Intermediate to strong data manipulation and visualization skills desirable – eg: PowerBI
• An interest in PwC’s business model, service offerings, and business operating environment as it pertains to the firm’s threat landscape

Seniority level

Associate

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Other

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