Senior Consultant, Digital Risk & Cyber Security

Baringa; Greater London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Baringa seeks exceptional Digital Risk & Cyber professionals to help clients become more resilient through strategy, governance and operating-model design. You will lead risk assessments, deliver transformative programs and enable AI-enabled secure transformations across sectors.

As a trusted adviser, you will work with executives and CISOs, build frameworks, and strengthen Baringa’s market position with high-impact engagements.

Qualifications

• Experience developing and leading business development campaigns.
• Experience in digital and cyber security risk assessments.
• Experience in programme or project delivery.
• Familiarity with best practice frameworks (e.g., NIST, ISO 27001).
• Ability to engage executives, CISOs and technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Help clients become more resilient by developing digital risk and cyber security strategies, governance and operating models.
• Deliver transformative change and embed AI into delivery frameworks and tooling.
• Lead and participate in risk assessments, assurance activities and regulatory mapping.

Skills

Digital risk

Cyber security

Business development

Programme delivery

Stakeholder engagement

Tools

NIST framework

ISO 27001

Job description

About Baringa

Baringa is a global consulting firm that partners with leaders to drive change and create value. With deep industry expertise, and enabled by advanced technology, the firm helps clients to deliver with greater confidence and certainty. With over 2,000 people across the UK, Europe, North America, Asia and Australia, the firm combines global insight with local understanding.

The firm works across energy and resources, financial services, government and public sector, consumer products and retail, pharmaceuticals and life sciences, manufacturing, and technology, media and telecoms, with capabilities spanning strategy, transformation and operational excellence – all powered by advanced technology, data, AI and digital innovation.

Clients value Baringa’s collaborative approach and the way its teams integrate seamlessly – all working with a shared understanding of what matters most. The firm is known for its kind, curious experts who listen closely and care deeply about client success as they help clients transform energy markets, modernise financial platforms, expand telecoms and digital networks through advanced data analytics, enable digital services in government, and unlock growth in consumer sectors.

Certified as a Great Place to Work around the world, Baringa has been recognised by the Financial Times in 22 categories of its UK Leading Management Consultants rankings, and by Forbes for four consecutive years as one of the World’s Best Management Consulting Firms.

Our Digital Risk & Cyber practice is scaling fast, and we're looking for experienced consultant who want to build and solve, not just advise.

Our Digital Risk and Cyber (DRC) team helps our clients secure their organisation through innovative andappropriate approachesto security,resilienceand privacy. We work with our clients across a range of challenges, from security strategies & operating models, to securing the specific technologies which drive value in their organisations.Our work is organised around two specialisms:

• Digital Resilience-helping clients meet fast-movingsecurity,resilience and regulatory obligations such as DORA, the UK Cyber Security and Resilience Bill;

• Digital Trust-helping them govern emerging technologyand securityrisk across AI,cloudand post-quantum cryptography.

We also build security into major business change or transformation programmes and deliver regulatory and standards compliance programmes.Increasingly wedon’tjustadvise:we design,buildand stand up the frameworks, operating models and tooling that keep working inside our clients’ operations after we leave.

Our client base spans financial services, energy, commodities, utilities, telecommunications, media, technology, pharmaceuticals, life sciences, retail, manufacturing, and government – offering excellent opportunities to develop your career. Our skilled DRC professionals become trusted advisors,independent by design, with no vendor resale agreements or audit constraints shaping our advice,delivering significant value to our clients.

We are looking for more great individuals to join our DRC practice. New colleagues who are just as passionate about their personal development as they are about digital risk and cyber security. People who bring their own views and perspective based on their ownexpertiseand experience to date.

Ourgrowthambition,along with our continued ambitious geographic expansion means that we can offer our employees great progression and development across a diverse range of engagements.

What you will be doing

We help our clients become more resilient by supporting them in assessing,planningand executing major changes to their digital risk and cyber security strategy and capabilities. Our team of seasoned professionals support our clients in developing leading strategies, delivering transformative change, and embedding best practice ways of working.Increasingly wedon'tjust advise on problems, we solve them: we design frameworks, build operatingmodelsand embed AI into how we deliver.

Often acting as a ‘critical friend’,we bring a communicative,collaborativeand pragmatic approach, focused on creating great consulting experiences for our clients.Whether we are helping a CISO define their future change agenda, or deliveringcutting-edgecyber security capability, we strike an effective balance between technicalexpertise, businessunderstandingand interpersonal skills.

At this critical time in the growth of our consulting practice, we are looking for exceptional talent to help bolster our own capabilities and delivery capacity. The right candidate will have the unique opportunity to help build a truly differentcyber security consulting business by spending a proportion of their time taking us to new markets and strengthening our position in others.

Your skills and experience

• A passion to build a career in digital risk and cyber securitydemonstratedby choice in academic qualifications, self-learning or hobbies and interests
• Experience in developing and leading business development campaigns
• Experience of digital and cyber security risk assessments
• Experience in programmeor projectdelivery
• Working knowledge of best practice frameworks, for example NIST and ISO 27001
• Experience with digital risk and cyber security governance design and assurance
• Ability to take ownership and deliver results in challenging, client-facing environments
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, especially thosedemonstratedthrough business process analysis and cyber security delivery
• Confident in engaging a broad range of stakeholders about digital risk and cyber security - from executives and board members to CISOs and technology professionals
• Ability to consistently deliverhigh qualityoutputs for our clients, enhancing our reputation and generating repeat business
• Passion for building capability - designing frameworks, operatingmodelsand tooling.
• Fluency in using AI to deliver, compressing high-volume tasks such as regulatory mapping, evidence review, maturity scoring and reporting, and in advising clients on securing and governing AI
• Awareness of the operational resilience and regulatory agenda, including DORA, the UK Cyber Security and Resilience Bill and NCSC CAF
• A willingness to build your profile in the market - points of view, speaking and content that open specific client conversations
• Comfort teaming across sectors and other Baringa capabilities, working as one firm around the client's problem