Cybersecurity Risk and Compliance Specialist
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About the Role
Accenture Middle East is seeking a Security Consulting Consultant in Riyadh to develop cybersecurity frameworks, policies, and risk management strategies. The role requires expertise in governance, risk management, compliance, and regulatory standards.
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Responsibilities
- Develop cyber frameworks, policies, processes, procedures, guidelines, and related documentation
- Review existing and proposed policies and related documentation with stakeholders
- Develop reporting metrics, KPIs, and dashboards
- Monitor how effectively cybersecurity policies, principles and practices are implemented in the delivery of planning and management services
- Ensure that cybersecurity workforce management policies and processes comply with legal and organizational requirements
- Interpret and apply applicable laws, statutes and regulatory documents to ensure they are reflected in the cybersecurity policies
- Provide policy guidance to cybersecurity management, staff and users
- Effectively communicate Cybersecurity risks and posture to senior management
- Develop risk mitigation strategies to effectively manage risk in accordance with organizational risk appetite
- Ensure that decisions relating to Cybersecurity are based on sound risk management principles
- Perform risk analysis whenever an application or system undergoes a major change
- Provide input to the risk management framework and related documentation
Requirements
- Excellent communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem solving environment
- Flexibility to travel
- Consulting, stakeholder engagement and relationship management skills
- Fluent in Arabic and English language
- Ability to effectively communicate insights relating to an organization’s threat environment to improve its risk management posture
- Ability to work with the organization's leadership to provide a comprehensive, organization wide approach to address Cybersecurity risk and compliance
- Ability to develop and maintain Cybersecurity policies, standards and related documentations to support business strategy and maintain compliance with legislative, regulatory, and contractual obligations
- Ability to communicate technical and planning information at the same level as a stakeholder’s understanding
- Knowledge and understanding of risk assessment, mitigation, and treatment methods
- Knowledge of relevant Cybersecurity aspects of legislative and regulatory requirements, relating to ethics and privacy
- Knowledge of Cybersecurity threats and vulnerabilities posed by new technologies and malicious actors
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Role Title and Location
- Role Title: Security Consulting Consultant
- 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.
- 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.
Governance Responsibilities
- Develop cyber frameworks, policies, processes, procedures, guidelines, and related documentation.
- Review existing and proposed policies and related documentation with stakeholders.
- Develop reporting metrics, KPIs, and dashboards.
- Monitor how effectively cybersecurity policies, principles and practices are implemented in the delivery of planning and management services.
- Ensure that cybersecurity workforce management policies and processes comply with legal and organizational requirements.
- Interpret and apply applicable laws, statutes and regulatory documents to ensure they are reflected in the cybersecurity policies.
- Provide policy guidance to cybersecurity management, staff and users.
Risk Management Responsibilities
- Effectively communicate Cybersecurity risks and posture to senior management.
- Develop risk mitigation strategies to effectively manage risk in accordance with organizational risk appetite.
- Ensure that decisions relating to Cybersecurity are based on sound risk management principles.
- Perform risk analysis whenever an application or system undergoes a major change.
- Provide input to the risk management framework and related documentation.
- Ensure Cybersecurity risks are identified and managed appropriately through the organization's risk governance process.
- Carry out a Cybersecurity risk assessments.
- Work with others to implement and maintain a Cybersecurity risk management program
- Identify and assign individuals to specific roles associated with the execution of the Risk Management Framework
- Establish a risk management strategy for the organization that includes a determination of risk tolerance
- Conduct an initial risk assessment of stakeholder assets and update the risk assessment on an ongoing basis
- Work with organizational officials to ensure continuous monitoring tool data provides situation awareness of risk levels
Compliance & Regulation Responsibilities
- Analyze the organization's Cybersecurity policies and configurations to evaluate compliance with regulations and organization compliance frameworks
- Recognize patterns of non compliance with Cybersecurity policies and related documentation to identify ways to improve the documentation
- Periodically review Cybersecurity strategy, policies, and related documents to maintain compliance with applicable legislation and regulation
- Work with stakeholders to resolve Cybersecurity incidents and vulnerability compliance issues
- Develop methods to effectively monitor and measure risk, compliance, and assurance efforts
- Develop specifications to ensure that risk, compliance, and assurance efforts conform with Cybersecurity requirements.
- Monitor and evaluate a system's compliance with Cybersecurity, resilience, and dependability requirements
- Develop Cybersecurity compliance processes and audits for services provided by third parties
- Maintain knowledge of applicable legislation, regulation, and accreditation standards and regularly review these to ensure continued organizational compliance
- Cooperate with relevant regulatory agencies and other legal entities in any compliance reviews or investigations.
Qualifications
- Excellent communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem solving environment
- Flexibility to travel
- Consulting, stakeholder engagement and relationship management skills.
- Fluent in Arabic and English language
- Ability to effectively communicate insights relating to an organization’s threat environment to improve its risk management posture.
- Ability to work with the organization's leadership to provide a comprehensive, organization wide approach to address Cybersecurity risk and compliance.
- Ability to work with the organization's leadership to develop a risk management strategy to address Cybersecurity related risks.
- Ability to develop and maintain Cybersecurity policies, standards and related documentations to support business strategy and maintain compliance with legislative, regulatory, and contractual obligations.
- Ability to communicate technical and planning information at the same level as a stakeholder’s understanding.
- Knowledge and understanding of risk assessment, mitigation, and treatment methods.
- Knowledge of relevant Cybersecurity aspects of legislative and regulatory requirements, relating to ethics and privacy.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in information security, Cybersecurity or relevant.
- 5+ years of experience in similar position
- Should be Certified in CRISC, GRCP, ISO 27001 LI or equal certifications.
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