Cyber Senior Manager at KPMG South Africa

Description of the role and purpose of the job:

• The individual will be part of the cyber security team and will be responsible for managing large pursuits on cyber transformation such as IDAM, PAM and Managed Security services

Key responsibilities:

• Lead on the application of analytical and problem-solving skills to identify client problems, and deliver these in an end-to-end front office transformation
• Manage teams to bid and win large scale cyber transformation engagements of significant size and scope
• Build new and maintain client relationships to generate longer-term revenue for the team
• Help clients focus on generating value through the relationship management CRM and front-office investments, with a clear performance focus and value creation.
• Work with local and global teams on presales activities, business case formulation, proposals, POCs etc
• Build and action Go-To-Market plans within their industry, focused on target clients
• Coach and develop junior team members during projects and as part of the wider Customer team
• Assist in building pipeline and lead business development activities for the service-line

Skills and attributes required for the role:

Skills:

• Experience in business development including proposal writing, budgeting etc
• Experience in responding to cyber security incidents and investigation of cyber breaches including triage, containment, eradication and broader coordination for the incidents;
• Proficiency in identifying the systems and logs to be analysed considering the nature of the breach
• Knowledge of networks, operating systems (Linux and/or MacOS), databases, static and dynamic malware analysis/reverse engineering; digital forensics and cloud analytics
• Ability to collaborate, learn and work with cross functional teams
• Proficiency in documentation, report writing and documentation

Personal attributes:

• Good communication and interpersonal skills.
• Team player
• Ability to adapt, multi-task and work on multiple engagement simultaneously.
• Ability to work under pressure while still delivering high quality work.
• Ability to work under pressure and keep track of the big picture while performing in-depth analysis
• Social skills, willingness and experience in being a team player and dealing with people from a various backgrounds and areas across the company, but also possess the ability to work independently

Minimum requirements to apply for the role (including qualifications and experience):

• A minimum of 5 - 8 years of experience in sales, business development and pursuit management for a service organisation, preferably in consulting or professional services.
• Exposure of large scale engagements in digital transformation, cloud computing, security transformation etc
• Understanding on one or multiple product stacks such as Microsoft, IBM, AWS, Sailpoint, Saviant  and Microsoft