Senior GRC Lead: Cyber Security Assurance

NTT Ltd.; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

NTT DATA is seeking a Lead GRC Consultant to lead governance, risk and compliance activities across a complex cyber security programme. You will conduct evidence-based assurance, gap assessments and remediation planning while engaging IT and OT stakeholders across the organisation.

You will apply strong policy, control and evidence review capabilities, challenge status quo, and produce clear findings and recommendations for executive, audit and regulatory audiences.

Qualifications

• Current PriCSP (Audit) certification/accreditation is mandatory for this role.
• Strong practical experience in cyber security governance, risk and compliance, assurance, audit or security maturity assessment.
• Demonstrable experience delivering structured gap assessments against recognised cyber security frameworks, standards or regulatory requirements.
• Experience with NCSC CAF/eCAF assessments or comparable control‑based assurance frameworks.
• Strong evidence‑assessment capability, including determining relevance, sufficiency, reliability, currency, consistency and traceability of evidence.
• Experience reviewing security policies, standards, procedures, risk registers, control evidence, architecture artefacts and operational records.
• Experience assessing control design and, where appropriate, control implementation and operating effectiveness.
• Strong stakeholder interviewing, workshop facilitation and challenge skills across technical, operational and senior‑management audiences.
• Ability to write clear, defensible findings and recommendations suitable for executive, audit and regulatory audiences.
• Experience translating findings into prioritised remediation actions, control improvements and evidence requirements.
• Experience operating in complex environments spanning business, IT and/or OT stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead GRC assessment and assurance activities across the agreed programme scope, coordinating inputs from cyber security, risk, compliance, architecture, IT and OT stakeholders.
• Perform evidence-led assurance by reviewing policies, standards, procedures, technical artefacts, operational records, risk information and other supporting evidence to determine whether stated controls and practices are demonstrably implemented.
• Conduct structured gap assessments against agreed regulatory, contractual and security-framework requirements, including NCSC CAF/eCAF where applicable.
• Review and challenge customer self‑assessments, control assertions and supporting rationale, identifying supported, partially supported, unsupported or contradictory positions.
• Assess governance arrangements, risk‑management processes, control ownership, policy frameworks, assurance processes, evidence management and compliance reporting.
• Facilitate interviews, workshops, walkthroughs and challenge sessions with business, technical and operational stakeholders.
• Maintain clear traceability between requirements, controls, evidence, findings, risks, recommendations and remediation actions.
• Distinguish between control deficiencies and evidence deficiencies, and clearly document assessment limitations or areas requiring further validation.
• Develop evidence‑based findings with clear criteria, observed condition, supporting evidence, risk/impact and proportionate recommendation.
• Assess control design and, where sufficient evidence is available, operating effectiveness and sustainability of controls.
• Consolidate assessment findings into maturity, gap and readiness views for senior stakeholders and programme governance.
• Develop prioritised remediation recommendations, target control outcomes and evidence requirements, and support remediation planning and tracking.
• Review remediation evidence and determine whether findings can be validated as addressed, partially addressed or remain open.
• Contribute to executive reporting, audit/readiness reporting, regulatory preparation and management briefings.
• Apply internal quality assurance and peer‑review expectations to ensure conclusions are consistent, evidence‑based and defensible.

Skills

PriCSP Certification

Cyber security governance

GRC assessment

Evidence-based assurance

NCSC CAF/eCAF

Stakeholder interviewing

Policy review

Control evidence

Audit readiness

Tools

NCSC CAF/eCAF

ISO 27001

Job description

NTT DATA is seeking a Lead GRC Consultant to lead governance, risk and compliance activities across a complex cyber security programme. You will conduct evidence-based assurance, gap assessments and remediation planning while engaging IT and OT stakeholders across the organisation.

You will apply strong policy, control and evidence review capabilities, challenge status quo, and produce clear findings and recommendations for executive, audit and regulatory audiences.