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Manager, Security Strategy and Risk - R00267181 - Ottawa

Accenture

Ottawa, Ontario

Manager, Security Strategy and Risk - R00267181 - Ottawa

Accenture

Ottawa, Ontario
 
Salary: Information not available
 
County: 39
 

Join Accenture and help transform leading organizations and communities around the world.  The sheer scale of our capabilities and client engagements and the way we collaborate, operate and deliver value provides an unparalleled opportunity to grow and advance.  Choose Accenture, and make delivering innovative work part of your extraordinary career

Why join Accenture’s security practice?
Serving as a trusted security partner for more than 20 years to more than 330 clients across ~70 countries, Accenture’s security practice helps organizations build resilience from the inside out so they can operate and grow confidently in a rapidly evolving threat landscape. Our 5000 security professionals bring exceptional industry expertise to tailor intelligent security services to our clients’ unique businesses and industries. We provide a full spectrum of services – from security strategy development, to business transformation to managed security services – on demand and at a global scale.
  
Accenture’s unique ability to combine deep Security expertise across Strategy, Technology and Operations means that it can offer clients an enterprise-wide security program to predict, protect, detect, and respond to threats in an industry specific context.

Our Security Strategy & Risk professionals provide our clients with security advisory services and help define, assess and transform their security programs to achieve their mandates. This includes helping clients understand their current environment and strategic threats while developing roadmaps to close those gaps and continuously evolve and mature their programs.

Job Description
•    Cyber Security Strategy & Risk professionals are trusted advisors for our clients and have a strong understand of various security disciplines and their relationships. 
•    Possess the personal and professional attributes necessary to guide senior leadership in the formulation of strategies that produce robust and dynamic protective security capabilities as well as enterprise resilience capabilities. 
•    Has experience and knowledge working with specific security and audit standards (e.g. ISO27001, NIST, etc.)
•    Understand current and future client needs in the context of the security marketplace as well as client industry dynamics and apply insights to recommend short/long-term value creation for clients that have the appropriate level of impact. 
•    Demonstrate an ability to: 
-    Understand business direction of companies and create optimized security strategies that meet business needs, seeking to balance defensive and responsive strategic elements. 
-    Communicate complex technology concepts and terms to executive clients in business terms to support formulation of enterprise strategy formulation. 
-    Advise on aligning and optimizing security operations to meet business objectives while maintaining identified compliance with legal, best-practice and regulatory requirements.
-    Produce risk-based strategies that maximize the effectiveness of finite financial resources in the face of ever-escalating cyber threats. 
-    Cyber Transformation: Skills in conducting a reassessment and overhaul of an organization's security program, underlying capabilities, tools, processes, and people. This includes translating business requirements into security considerations.
-    Control Testing: Assist second and third lines of defense in designing testing processes and evidence collection procedures in the transformed technology environment. This involves 
integrating security controls into broader transformation office functions
-    Building Security Program: Develop and implement a comprehensive security program that includes security assessment, design, and control testing. This involves leveraging best practices, templates, and accelerators to expedite control design and security patterns, and integrating security considerations into the broader transformation office 
 

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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

 

About Accenture

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.