Cybersecurity Risk and Compliance Specialist
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About the Role
Accenture Middle East seeks a Cybersecurity Risk and Compliance Specialist to develop cyber frameworks, manage risk, and ensure compliance. The role involves policy development, risk assessments, and regulatory compliance in Riyadh.
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Responsibilities
- Develop cyber frameworks, policies, processes, procedures, guidelines, and related documentation
- Effectively communicate Cybersecurity risks and posture to senior management
- Develop risk mitigation strategies to effectively manage risk in accordance with organizational risk appetite
- Carry out Cybersecurity risk assessments
- Analyze the organization's Cybersecurity policies and configurations to evaluate compliance with regulations
- Develop Cybersecurity compliance processes and audits for services provided by third parties
- Cooperate with relevant regulatory agencies and other legal entities in compliance reviews or investigations
Requirements
- Experience in cybersecurity governance, risk management, and compliance
- Knowledge of applicable laws, statutes, and regulatory documents
- Ability to develop and implement cybersecurity policies and frameworks
- Experience with risk management tools such as eGRC
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Responsibilities and Accountabilities
- Governance: Develop cyber frameworks, policies, processes, procedures, guidelines, and related documentation.
- Risk Management: Effectively communicate Cybersecurity risks and posture to senior management.
- Compliance & Regulation: Analyze the organization's Cybersecurity policies and configurations to evaluate compliance with regulations and organization compliance frameworks.
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.
- Ensure that cybersecurity workforce management policies and processes comply with legal and organizational requirements.
- Interpret and apply applicable laws, statutes and regulatory documents.
- 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.
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