Senior Cyber Security Consultant - Financial Services

Oliver James
London
2 months ago
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Senior Cyber Security Consultant - Financial Services (JOB-112024-263011) City of London, England

Oliver James is partnered with an international general insurance and reinsurance group in their search for a Senior Cyber Security Advisor.

The role pays up to £90,000 basic salary excluding bonuses, pension and extra benefits – and is based in the City on a hybrid basis.

Our client’s team provides significant planning, project management and internal and external consulting services to the broader insurance ecosystem.

Our client seeks a Financial Services (ideally Insurance) savvy Cyber Security hire with experience of robust consultancy skills.

This hire will predominantly:

  1. Provide technical IT security insight to underwriting team;
  2. Assist in creation of roadmaps to deliver change in the Cyber class of business when strategic change or direction is required;
  3. Represent the business at appropriate industry committees and conferences;
  4. Support as the central point of contact for all major industry Cyber incidents;
  5. Work with third parties to review and assess appropriate levels of security infrastructure that our clients should maintain;
  6. Perform security risk assessments;
  7. Provide technical input to help inform Cyber exposure management and modelling.

It is likely the hire will carry a number of the below desirable experiences:

  1. Cyber Consultancy experience;
  2. Technical knowledge of IT including networks, operating systems, databases, firewalls, anti-virus, and patch management;
  3. Awareness of the Data Protection Act (and GDPR), NIST and PRA initiatives and the Governments Cyber Essentials programme;
  4. Knowledge and experience of the security products available including intrusion detection, SIEM vulnerability assessment and encryption tools;
  5. An understanding of UK insurance is desirable.

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