Cyber Senior Associate 2 – Penetration Tester at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)

As a Senior Associate, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:

• Use feedback and reflection to develop self awareness, personal strengths and address development areas.
• Delegate to others to provide stretch opportunities, coaching them to deliver results.
• Demonstrate critical thinking and the ability to bring order to unstructured problems.
• Use a broad range of tools and techniques to extract insights from current industry or sector trends.
• Review your work and that of others for quality, accuracy and relevance.
• Know how and when to use tools available for a given situation and can explain the reasons for this choice.
• Seek and embrace opportunities which give exposure to different situations, environments and perspectives.
• Use straightforward communication, in a structured way, when influencing and connecting with others.
• Able to read situations and modify behavior to build quality relationships.
• Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.

Role summary: 

• The role of “Senior Associate 2 – Cyber Consulting” entails the assistance of the delivery of client solutions pertaining to the cyber security services. 
• The Senior Associate should be involved in the delivery of client cyber security  solutions and will be expected to assist in the development of capabilities in sales  and business development area.

Qualifications / Certifications required:

• Relevant B. Degree in Information Systems, Informatics, Information  Management, Computer Science or Engineering. 
• Honours Degree would be an advantage. 
• Specific focus on information security-related subjects / disciplines would be an advantage. 
• Accreditation 
• CEH - Certified Ethical Hacker 
• OSCP - Offensive Security Certified Professional 
• Security + 
• CISSP (advantageous) 
• CISM (advantageous) 
• ISO 27001 (advantageous) 
• CISA (advantageous) 

Experience required: 

• 2 - 3 years relevant project and consulting experience

Responsibilities of role: 

• Delivery 
• Manage complex multi-stream project teams and the overall delivery of large  programmes 
• Manage finances associated with project delivery and deliver on yearly revenue targets
• Analyse and formulate cybersecurity strategy and strategic plans/objectives Develop industry knowledge and thought leadership for business environments  and industry solutions and tools related to information security, data protection,  security governance and compliance 
• Understand and interpret complex security-related business challenges Conceive innovative information security/cyber solutions for clients Lead the design and delivery of end-to-end information security solutions which  are enabled by technology 
• Think independently and creatively when formulating information security  solutions      
• Facilitate and lead team problem solving and client issue resolution efforts Be recognised as an expert in the field of cybersecurity and data protection  including current technologies and their applications within a business context Develop security architecture with a focus on senior management challenges Maintain and develop technical skills in the field of cybersecurity and  data protection 
• Delegate authority and responsibility to teams 

Sales 

• Major/strategic account management and revenue growth 
• Conceive innovative solutions for clients and industries 
• Assist with business development initiatives through the compilation of  proposals and bid documentation 
• Engage with clients in order to identify opportunities for cybersecurity  improvements within their businesses 
• Proactively build sales pipeline and own business development initiatives Meet pipeline and sales targets 
• Drive new business development within new and existing clients Identify new information security solution opportunities and convert these into  sales 
• Be able to drive teams to identify new opportunities and turn these into sales

Relationships 

• Build and sustain professional relationships both within PwC and externally Lead colleagues in solving unique information security and technology challenges Build effective relationships with team members 
• Fulfil coaching and mentorship roles to junior staff 
• Transfer cybersecurity skills and knowledge to team members 
• Build long term relationships with clients that can be translated into revenue  opportunities 
• Is a team player and contributes to team success 
• Is able to build effective customer relationships 
• Is able to motivate and effectively lead a team         

Skill sets required: 

• a combination of the items listed below would be advantageous: 
• Cyber security management systems (ISMS) 
• Cyber security strategy and management 
• Cyber security governance and control 
• Information management 
• Information risk management 
• Cyber security and privacy policies and procedures
• Threat and vulnerability management 
• Incident management and response 
• Security technology controls for protecting information 
• Experience in design and implementation of security solutions  
• through to operation, experience of multi-supplier/multi 
• platform environments would be advantageous 
• Business resilience 
• Cyber security and/or privacy awareness and training 
• IT / internal audit with specialisation in information security 
• Protection of personal information (privacy) 
• Gap, maturity and compliance assessments

Role related attributes: 

• We're very proud of our unique culture and expect our people to demonstrate  skills and behaviours that will support us in implementing our business  strategy. 
• This is important to the work we do, both for our business and our clients. These skills and behaviours are a strong component of our global leadership  framework: The PwC Professional
• Industry experience required:
• Experience with and knowledge of cyber security and data protection tools,  techniques, methodologies and standards

Education(if blank, degree and/or field of study not specified)

• Degrees/Field of Study required:
• Degrees/Field of Study preferred:
• Certifications(if blank, certifications not specified)

Required Skills

• Optional Skills
• Desired Languages(If blank, desired languages not specified)

Travel Requirements

• Up to 20%

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?

• No

Government Clearance Required?

• Yes

Job Posting End Date

February 15, 2023