Digital Risk & Cyber Senior Consultant

Our Digital Risk and Cyber practice are looking for an experienced Consultant to join the team.

Our Digital Risk and Cyber (DRC) team helps our clients secure their organisation through innovative and appropriate approaches to security resilience and privacy. We work with our clients across a range of challenges from security strategies & operating models to securing the specific technologies which drive value in their organisations. We also build security into major business change or transformation programmes and deliver regulatory and standards compliance programmes. Our client base spans financial services energy commodities utilities telecommunications media technology pharmaceuticals life sciences retail manufacturing and government offering excellent opportunities to develop your career. Our skilled DRC professionals become trusted advisors independent from cyber security or technology vendors delivering significant value to our clients. We are looking for more great individuals to join our DRC practice. New colleagues who are just as passionate about their personal development as they are about digital risk and cyber security. People who bring their own views and perspective based on their own expertise and experience to date. Our industry growth along with our continued ambitious geographic expansion means that we can offer our employees great progression and development across a diverse range of engagements.

What you will be doing

• We help our clients become more resilient by supporting them in assessing planning and executing major changes to their digital risk and cyber security strategy and capabilities. Our team of seasoned professionals support our clients in developing leading strategies delivering transformative change and embedding best practice ways of working.
• Often acting as a critical friend to our clients we bring our communicative collaborative and pragmatic approach to our work and acknowledge that great consulting experiences for our clients. Whether we are helping a CISO define their future change agenda or delivering cutting-edge cyber security capability we strike an effective balance between technical expertise business understanding and interpersonal skills.
• At this critical time in the growth of our consulting practice we are looking for exceptional talent to help bolster our own capabilities and delivery capacity. The right candidate will have the unique opportunity to help build a truly different cyber security consulting business by spending a proportion of their time taking us to new markets and strengthening our position in others.

Your skills and experience

• A passion to build a career in digital risk and cyber security demonstrated by choice in academics qualifications self-learning or hobbies and interests
• Experience in developing and leading business development campaigns
• Experience of digital and cyber security risk assessments
• Experience in programme delivery
• Working knowledge of best practice frameworks for example NIST and ISO 27001
• Experience with digital risk and cyber security governance design and assurance
• Ability to take ownership and deliver results in challenging client-facing environments
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills especially those demonstrated through business process analysis and cyber security delivery
• Confident in engaging a broad range of stakeholders about digital risk and cyber security - from executives and board members to CISOs and technology professionals
• Ability to consistently deliver high quality outputs for our clients enhancing our reputation and generating repeat business
• Desirable certifications: CISSP ISO27001 NCSC CCP GCISP PRINCE2 (or equivalent)
• Ability to consistently deliver high quality outputs for our clients enhancing our reputation and generating repeat business
• Awareness of or experience in one or more of the following: Strategy and Operating Model; Supply Chain Risk; Regulatory requirements (for example GPDR DPA DPDI DORA NIS); Crisis Management; Threat Intelligence; Industrial Control Systems (ICS) or Operational Technology (OT) cyber security; Security Architecture; Physical / Corporate Security; Agile Security / DevSecOps

What a career at Baringa will give you

PuttingPeopleFirst.

Baringa is a People First company and wellbeing is at the forefront of our culture. We recognise the importance of work-life balance and flexible working and provide our staff amazing benefits. Some of these benefits include:

• Generous Annual Leave Policy:We recognise everyone needs a well-deserved break. We provide our employees with 5 weeks of annual leave fully available at the start of each addition to this we have introduced our 5-Year Recharge benefit which allows all employees an additional 2 weeks of paid leave after 5 years continuous service.

• Flexible Working:We know that the ideal work-life balance will vary from person to person and change at different stages of our working lives. To accommodate this we have implemented a hybrid working policy and introduced more flexibility around taking unpaid leave.

• Corporate Responsibility Days:Our world is important to us so all our employees get 3 every year to help social and environmental causes and increase our impact on the communities that mean the most to us.

• Wellbeing Fund:We want to encourage all employees to take charge and prioritise their own wellbeing. Weve introduced our annual People Fund to support this by offering every individual a fund to support and manage their wellbeing through an activity of their choice.

• Profit Share Scheme:All employees participate in the Baringa Group Profit Share Scheme so everyone has a stake in the companys success.

Diversity and Inclusion

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that creating an environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging is central to our culture and that diversity is paramount to driving creativity innovation and value for our clients and for our people.

An award-winning workplace

You can be a part of our Great Place to Work with our commitment to women and well-being in the workplace for all.Click hereto see some of our recent awards and how weve achieved this.

Using business as a force for good.

We maintain high standards of environmental performance and transparency which can be seen through our commitment to Net Zero with our SBTI-verified Scope 1 2 and 3 emissions reduction targets and our support of the Better Business Act. We report our progress publicly and ensure that we are also externally assessed and scored through organisations like CDP and EcoVadis - helping us to continually identify where we can improve.

We have a long legacy of supporting the communities in which we work and offer a variety of ways to contribute by putting people first and creating impact that lasts. Our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) agenda is about giving back to the communities in which we live and work by sharing our skills talent and essence we aim to empower and encourage everyone in the firm to contribute to the things we care about and support registered charities and organisations with a clear social or environmental purpose to increase the positive impact they can have.