We Are
Accenture Security helps organizations prepare, protect, detect, respond, and recover along all points of the security lifecycle. Cybersecurity challenges are different for every business in every industry. Leveraging our global resources and advanced technologies, we create integrated, turnkey solutions tailored to our clients’ needs across their entire value chain. Whether we’re defending against known cyberattacks, detecting and responding to the unknown, or running an entire security operations center, we will help companies build cyber resilience to grow with confidence. Our team of the security sector’s brightest people use the coolest tech to out-hack the hackers and help clients build resilience from within. We blend risk strategy, digital identity, cyber defense, application security and managed service solutions to rethink the entire security lifecycle.
You Are
Proven success in contributing to a team-oriented environment
Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment
Desire to work in a fast paced and highly collaborative environment
Excellent leadership, communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills
Can apply deep security skills to design, build and protect enterprise systems, applications, data, assets and people for Accenture and our clients
The Work (Role Responsibility)
Although no two days at Accenture are the same, your duties as Security Delivery Specialist within Managed Risk will likely include:
• Participate in the full delivery of various cyber risk and security engagements
• Consult to gather requirements and understand our clients' key challenges and work with senior team members to advise on practical and cost-effective solutions to help mitigate our clients’ cybersecurity risks and challenges;
• Conduct information security risk assessments, including risk/issue intake/identification, triage and treatment plan preparation and tracking in accordance to our client Information Security and Compliance Frameworks as well as regulatory standards and requirements (i.e. SOX, PCI, ISO, SOC2, NPCI);
• Help manage payments compliance (i.e. PCI) for various payments platforms
• Manage risk across multiple layers of the technology architecture stack;
• Hands-on participation in the people, process and technology aspects of a broad range of engagements including implementation and operation of security strategies and solutions. Focus will be on transition, transform and run efforts to enable our clients as part of a managed service;
• Work alongside seasoned subject matter experts to build your knowledge and expertise;
• Coordinate expectations between internal team members and external stakeholders to contribute to the successful delivery of the project;
• Bring risk and controls testing expertise for IT controls
• Perform IT control assessments/testing and assist with continuous monitoring activities, and help remediate any control deficiencies or findings
• Prepare control testing scripts, plans, agendas to help the client through test execution process
• Help plan and manage audits and assessments, including meeting with internal stakeholders to prepare, coordinating walkthroughs, providing evidence to external auditors, and responding to findings and recommendations
• Document testing working papers with evidence and discussions through observation/inquiry with various client stakeholders
• Assist with ongoing IT controls related functions, such as performing vendor reviews, user access reviews and risk assessments
• Drive key meetings with client stakeholders
• Provide test execution status and complete executive reporting
• Provide detailed analysis of test execution status by phase
• Articulate and defend IT controls testing approach and perform test of design and operating effectiveness
• Test IT controls across multiple security and compliance domains including but not limited to access controls, change management, configuration management, disaster recovery and business continuity, and security and IT operations.
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with colleagues, existing clients, and prospective client organizations;
• Engage in and contribute to the innovation, growth and enhancement of Accenture Security services; and,
• Participate in relevant community events that align to personal interests and provide the opportunity for you to build your professional brand.
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Have questions or want to learn more about us? We would love to hear from you!
Richard Murray
Email: richard.a.murray@accenture.com
Accenture is a talent and innovation-led organization helping companies to reinvent and keeping our clients ahead of change. Across more than 120 countries and 40 industries, we work as one team with a common goal: to create 360-degree value for our clients, people, shareholders, partners and communities, by embracing change.
You’ll work with top companies - clients and ecosystem partners and interact with leaders from every industry. When we bring our breadth of technological capabilities together with our ingenuity, they are greater than the sum of their parts. Help our clients reinvent. Reimagine iconic brands. Bring new products, ideas and ways of working to life with emerging technology.
We take a broad view of diversity that reflects all our people, and we are committed to ensuring everyone feels connected, with a strong sense of trust and belonging. We focus on fostering allyship, learning, inclusive ways of working, vibrant employee resource groups and networks, and accessibility, along with marking meaningful cultural observances with our people. Our networks nurture trusted relationships, mentorship opportunities and avenues for growth, benefiting participants across all career levels and fostering community and inclusion at both the global and local levels.
We take flexibility seriously — focusing not only on where but also when and how you work. We hire and develop people who have different backgrounds, different perspectives, and different lived experiences. Wherever you work, whatever skills you want to grow, there’s a program for you. We invest in our people’s capabilities so they can work with purpose, and boldly and innovatively solve problems. Continuous learning is our superpower. We put skills at the heart of everything we do. We continuously prepare our people to meet new demands and in turn, help ensure they remain highly relevant with vibrant career pathways, inside or beyond Accenture.
We encourage our people to bring their authentic selves to work and our commitment to our 750,000+ people from a variety of cultures, beliefs and backgrounds makes us more innovative. Our offices are more than just places to plug in—they're environments designed to support connection, creativity and well-being. They’re inclusive and accessible, too. We operate our business with a clean conscience – with strong commitment to the environment, ethics and human rights, responsible buying and community impact.
Join our exceptional people who are combining their ingenuity with the latest technologies to solve some of the world’s biggest challenges.