Security Consulting Analyst

Accenture; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 149,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

A global professional services company in Riyadh seeks a Security Consulting Analyst to develop and maintain a cybersecurity strategy, ensuring alignment with business goals. The role involves communicating with senior management, developing policies, and reviewing cybersecurity controls to meet strategic objectives. Ideal candidates have strong communication skills, stakeholder engagement experience, and a firm understanding of cybersecurity principles. This position offers a unique opportunity to contribute to transformative digital security initiatives.

Qualifications

• Excellent communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills.
• Consulting, stakeholder engagement and relationship management skills.
• Ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment.
• Knowledge of relevant cybersecurity and privacy principles.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain a cybersecurity strategy that aligns with the organization's business strategy.
• Effectively communicate financial aspects of cybersecurity to senior management.
• Work with stakeholders to develop cybersecurity policies and associated documentation.
• Review the effectiveness of the organization's cybersecurity controls against strategic goals.

Skills

Communication skills

Stakeholder engagement

Problem-solving

Flexibility to travel

Cybersecurity principles

Risk assessment

Job description

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 738,000 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 with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. We are uniquely able to deliver tangible outcomes because of our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Accenture Song. These capabilities, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients succeed 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. Visit us at www.accenture.com.

Accenture Technology

Through unmatched industry experience, leading technologies from our ecosystem partners and startups, and the largest delivery network in the world, we provide a powerful range of capabilities that can be tailored to our client’s most complex business needs. With over 100 innovation hubs deployed around the world, we help clients continuously innovate at speed and at scale so they can outpace their peers. You will bring innovation, intelligence and industry experience together with the newest technologies to help clients innovate at scale and transform their businesses.

Technology is one of four services that make up one Accenture –the others are Strategy and Consulting, Interactive and Operations.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain a cybersecurity strategy that aligns to the organization's business strategy.
• Effectively communicate financial aspects of cybersecurity related activities to senior management.
• Work with stakeholders to develop cybersecurity policies and associated documentation in alignment with the organization's cybersecurity strategy.
• Ensure that cybersecurity requirements for IT are aligned with the organization’s cybersecurity strategy.
• Develop and customize cyber threat landscapes.
• Promote and demonstrate the value of cybersecurity to stakeholders within an organization.
• Review the effectiveness of the organization's cybersecurity controls against its strategic goals.
• Advocate cybersecurity related topics with senior management, to ensure the organization's strategic goals include cybersecurity.
• Ensure that organizational cybersecurity strategy is effectively addressed by cybersecurity policies and related documents.
• Brief senior management on cybersecurity controls required to protect the organization.
• Ensure that protection and detection capabilities are aligned with the organization's cybersecurity strategy, policies and other related documentation
• Periodically review cybersecurity strategy, policies and related documents to maintain compliance with applicable legislation and regulation.
• Obtain resources to develop and implement effective processes to meet strategic cybersecurity goals
• Ensure that cybersecurity architecture design is aligned with the organization's cybersecurity strategy
• Identify alternative cybersecurity strategies to address organizational security objective
• Review the effectiveness of the organization's cybersecurity controls against its strategic goals
• Advise on security requirements to be included in RFP process, project and change management processes
• Ensure that acquired or developed systems and architectures are consistent with organization's cybersecurity architecture guidelines.
• Develop and address security architecture and systems security engineering requirements throughout the acquisition life cycle.

Qualifications:

• Excellent communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills
• Consulting, stakeholder engagement and relationship management skills
• Ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment
• Flexibility to travel
• Ability to apply cybersecurity and privacy principles to organizational requirements.
• Knowledge of the organization's IT strategy and objectives.
• Knowledge in identifying the business critical systems and application.
• Knowledge of Enterprise Risk Management processes.
• Knowledge of developing cyber threat landscapes.
• Ability to understand and translate future cybersecurity considerations and industry trends into the cybersecurity strategy.
• Ability to optimize systems to meet enterprise performance requirements
• Knowledge and understanding of risk assessment, mitigation, and management methods.
• Knowledge of relevant cybersecurity and privacy principles and related legislative and regulatory requirements.

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.

Role Title: Security Consulting Analyst

Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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 738,000 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 with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. We are uniquely able to deliver tangible outcomes because of our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Accenture Song. These capabilities, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients succeed 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. Visit us at www.accenture.com.

Accenture Technology

Through unmatched industry experience, leading technologies from our ecosystem partners and startups, and the largest delivery network in the world, we provide a powerful range of capabilities that can be tailored to our client’s most complex business needs. With over 100 innovation hubs deployed around the world, we help clients continuously innovate at speed and at scale so they can outpace their peers. You will bring innovation, intelligence and industry experience together with the newest technologies to help clients innovate at scale and transform their businesses.

Technology is one of four services that make up one Accenture –the others are Strategy and Consulting, Interactive and Operations.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain a cybersecurity strategy that aligns to the organization's business strategy.
• Effectively communicate financial aspects of cybersecurity related activities to senior management.
• Work with stakeholders to develop cybersecurity policies and associated documentation in alignment with the organization's cybersecurity strategy.
• Ensure that cybersecurity requirements for IT are aligned with the organization’s cybersecurity strategy.
• Develop and customize cyber threat landscapes.
• Promote and demonstrate the value of cybersecurity to stakeholders within an organization.
• Review the effectiveness of the organization's cybersecurity controls against its strategic goals.
• Advocate cybersecurity related topics with senior management, to ensure the organization's strategic goals include cybersecurity.
• Ensure that organizational cybersecurity strategy is effectively addressed by cybersecurity policies and related documents.
• Brief senior management on cybersecurity controls required to protect the organization.
• Ensure that protection and detection capabilities are aligned with the organization's cybersecurity strategy, policies and other related documentation
• Periodically review cybersecurity strategy, policies and related documents to maintain compliance with applicable legislation and regulation.
• Obtain resources to develop and implement effective processes to meet strategic cybersecurity goals
• Ensure that cybersecurity architecture design is aligned with the organization's cybersecurity strategy
• Identify alternative cybersecurity strategies to address organizational security objective
• Review the effectiveness of the organization's cybersecurity controls against its strategic goals
• Advise on security requirements to be included in RFP process, project and change management processes
• Ensure that acquired or developed systems and architectures are consistent with organization's cybersecurity architecture guidelines.
• Develop and address security architecture and systems security engineering requirements throughout the acquisition life cycle.

Qualifications:

• Excellent communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills
• Consulting, stakeholder engagement and relationship management skills
• Ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment
• Flexibility to travel
• Ability to apply cybersecurity and privacy principles to organizational requirements.
• Knowledge of the organization's IT strategy and objectives.
• Knowledge in identifying the business critical systems and application.
• Knowledge of Enterprise Risk Management processes.
• Knowledge of developing cyber threat landscapes.
• Ability to understand and translate future cybersecurity considerations and industry trends into the cybersecurity strategy.
• Ability to optimize systems to meet enterprise performance requirements
• Knowledge and understanding of risk assessment, mitigation, and management methods.
• Knowledge of relevant cybersecurity and privacy principles and related legislative and regulatory requirements.

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.

Visit us atwww.accenture.com

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