AutoReq ID

140369BR

Job Title

Organisational Resilience, Assistant Manager - Cyber Security

Country

United Kingdom

Location

London

Function

Risk Consulting

Service Line

RC Technology

Service Line Information

Using a wide variety of technical and sector-specific skills, KPMG's Risk Consulting group proactively helps clients increase profits whilst reducing reputational, operational, financial and other risks. We are experienced in managing diverse issues including fraud, regulatory compliance, risk frameworks and modelling, capital efficiency, corporate governance, dispute resolution, deriving value from contracts and much more.

Technology - Our clients need to deal effectively with technology related risks and derive maximum value from data and documentation. Our specialists provide independent, jargon free advice and advanced technology capabilities to help our clients proactively manage their technology risks and use their data to its full potential.

KPMG Overview

KPMG is part of a global network of firms that offers Audit, Tax & Pensions, Consulting, Deal Advisory and Technology services. Through the talent of over 16,000 colleagues, we bring our creativity and insight to our clients' most critical challenges.

With offices across the UK, we work with everyone from small start-ups and individuals to major multinationals, in virtually every industry imaginable. Our work is often complex, yet our vision is simple: to be the clear choice for our clients, for our people and for the communities we work in.

Job Description

KPMG has been acknowledged by Forrester as a leader in the provision of cyber security consultancy. We are investing to building out our organisational resilience consulting team to meet a growing demand and provide a comprehensive range of services to many of the largest blue chip companies in the world.

We help our clients protect, detect and respond to high end business risks and threats; helping them understand the business threat landscape, make sensible decisions on investment priorities, and build out the specialist capabilities they need to counter both business and technical risks and threats.

We believe that organisational resilience is about helping our clients to harness business opportunities, safe and secure in the knowledge that they have mitigated and can respond to any risks. For us, organisational resilience engages the whole organisation and focusses on a holistic approach to understanding and mitigating the risk.

Our team works closely with KPMG's broader advisory practice to link organisational resilience to financial crime and risk management, cyber security and IT transformation.

The Role

You will be an experienced consultant within the organisational resilience team helping to ensure we are able to deliver high quality advice to clients. You should expect to be involved in a wide range of challenging engagements, ranging from major executive level exercises and threat reviews, through optimisation of client resilience controls and large resilience programmes, to providing specialist support in areas such as crisis management, business continuity, technology and cyber resilience.

Our clients are under regulatory scrutiny, but are also continually battling to match a rapidly changing global business threat landscape while harnessing the opportunities offered by digital services.

As an assistant manager in our team, we expect you to understand the business world, whether that be financial services, utilities or other corporate clients and to be able to translate complex risk and resilience issues into straightforward, credible, jargon free advice to our clients; while making sure we can deliver the support they require.

If you are able to help our clients seize the opportunity offered by the digital world, and do so in secure and resilient way, then you are the type of person we are looking for.

Responsibilities:
Delivery of challenging, complex client engagements to ensure delivery, quality and value to our clients by:
- Understanding their challenges and the threats they face
- Helping them navigate the increasingly complex business and technology regulatory environment
- Advising on resilience governance, frameworks and operating models
- Helping them optimise their approach to organisational resilience controls and risk management
- Getting the balance right between protection, detection, reaction and response to resilience issues
- Upholding KPMG's values by acting with integrity

Experience and Background:
- Proven experience of working with or within financial services and/or corporate organisations
- Proven understanding of the business, threat and regulatory issues faced by clients (essential)
- Proven experience of understanding and managing aspects of risk and resilience (essential)
- Proven experience of delivering in one or more of the following areas (essential):
-Business resilience
-Crisis management
-Technology resilience
-Cyber resilience
- Proven ability to work at sustained levels of high intensity
- Proven ability to analyse problems, identify core issues and recommend appropriate solutions

Qualifications and Skills
- Degree level qualified
- Recognised professional qualifications (e.g. CISSP, CISM, CBCI, etc.), or comparable experience
- Excellent communication skills (both written and oral), negotiation and project management skills

Our Deal

If the chance to work with interesting clients and innovative technology wasn't rewarding enough, we'll motivate you in other ways too. At KPMG you can expect real responsibilities and opportunities to grow professionally.

'Our Deal' sets out all the different ways you'll be rewarded at KPMG. Among other things you can benefit from honest conversations about your career as well as a range of other rewards. In all these ways and more, we have created an environment that can bring out the best in you.

Flexible Working

While some of our client-facing professionals can be required to travel regularly, and at times be based at client sites, we are supportive where possible of helping you to achieve a balance between your home and work demands.

We are happy to discuss individual requirements and our range of flexible working arrangements could be of interest. Furthermore, as part of the recruitment process, we can put you in touch with people who work flexibly so you can understand from them what our culture is like.

Applying with a Disability

KPMG are proud to be an inclusive, equal opportunity employer and we seek to attract and retain the best people from the widest possible talent pool. As a member of the Business Disability Forum we're committed to ensuring that you are treated fairly throughout our Recruitment Process. Should you be successful after the initial application stage, please discuss any reasonable adjustments that you may require, with your recruitment contact.

KPMG's commitment to diversity

We are proud of the value we place on individuality; we want you to bring your full self to work and truly maximise your potential. We believe that your individuality helps us to deliver the best results for our clients. Diversity of background, diversity of experience, diversity of perspective - that's the KPMG difference. But, don't take our word for it, find out more about diversity at KPMG.

Returning to work after a break
At KPMG, we appreciate that returning to work after an extended career break can be daunting. We understand that those with experience who have taken a career break have a wealth of experience and knowledge to offer our organisation, which helps us to achieve our business goals. We will support you to refresh your skills, develop your confidence and provide a supportive network across the firm to help you best integrate into the working environment. This role welcomes applications for individuals who have been out of work for 18 months or more and who have previous relevant experience.

Policy for Agencies

KPMG has a commitment to sourcing candidates directly and as such we do not accept speculative CV's from agencies. Please check here to see our policy on agencies: Policy

Job Segment: Assistant Manager, Corporate Security, Law, Consulting, Security, Management, Legal, Technology