CyberCX - Senior Consultant, Strategy & Risk

Accenture PLC; Auckland; On-site; NZD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Senior Consultant – Strategy & Risk in New Zealand to help clients strengthen cyber resilience and make informed security decisions. The role involves leading client engagements, building trusted relationships and delivering strategic outcomes with autonomy.

The ideal candidate has 3+ years’ IT security experience across corporate or government sectors, with strong translation of technical risk into business strategy and action.

Qualifications

• 3+ years’ experience in corporate or government IT security.
• Ability to translate technical risk into business risk, strategy and action.
• Experience across multiple cyber security domains, such as risk assessment, frameworks (NIST CSF, ISM, ISO/IEC 27001), vulnerability assessments, and penetration testing.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery and consultation activities with client stakeholders to shape recommendations and outcomes.
• Support the development of cyber security strategies and risk-based solutions.
• Facilitate cyber security awareness and engagement with executive and leadership teams.
• Prepare high-quality proposals, reports and presentations for senior client stakeholders.
• Manage client expectations with professionalism, clarity and confidence.
• Contribute to clients’ preparedness for significant cyber incidents through strategic advisory work.

Skills

Cybersecurity

Risk assessment

Penetration testing

Vulnerability assessments

NIST CSF

ISO/IEC 27001

Job description

The work we do matters

CyberCX, part of Accenture, protects and defends our customers and communities by providing the most comprehensive range of cyber security professional services in the region.

With more than 1,400 team members across Australia, New Zealand, the UK and US, we are a leading force in cyber security, offering services from strategy, GRC, managed security services, cloud security, digital forensics and cyber education.

If you’re ready to work with teammates that get you, a leader that supports you and customers that need you, then you’re ready for CyberCX.

How you’ll make an impact

As a Senior Consultant – Strategy & Risk, you will play a key role in helping clients strengthen their cyber resilience and make confident, informed security decisions.

This is an opportunity for an experienced cyber security professional who can lead client engagements, build trusted relationships, and deliver high-quality strategic outcomes with a high degree of autonomy.

In this role, you will:

• Lead discovery and consultation activities with client stakeholders to shape recommendations and outcomes
• Support the development of cyber security strategies and risk-based solutions that protect clients and their customers
• Facilitate cyber security awareness and engagement with executive and leadership teams
• Prepare high-quality proposals, reports and presentations for senior client stakeholders
• Manage client expectations with professionalism, clarity and confidence
• Contribute to clients’ preparedness for significant cyber incidents through strategic advisory work

About you

You are a strong communicator and trusted advisor who can translate technical cyber risks into clear business insights and practical strategy.

You will bring:

• 3+ years’ experience in corporate or government IT security
• Proven ability to translate technical risk into business risk, strategy and action
• Experience across multiple cyber security domains, such as:
• Risk assessment and risk management
• Cyber security frameworks including NIST CSF, ISM and ISO/IEC 27001
• Vulnerability assessments
• Penetration testing
• Security research or related disciplines

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

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