Information Security Consultant Job Details

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All of our Consulting professionals receive comprehensive training covering business acumen, technical and professional skills development. You will also have opportunities to hone your functional skills and expertise in Information Security Management. The sheer variety of work we do, and the experience it offers, provides an unbeatable platform on which to build a career. In addition, our growth, combined with our integrated career counselling, offers great opportunities for rapid advancement.

Description

The Information Security Consultant provides advisory and technical support to help our clients improve the Information Risk and Security Management function to respond to the increasing cyber security threat. You will do this by providing information security subject matter expertise and utilising your business consulting acumen to work collaboratively with our clients to design build and implement pragmatic security solutions.

Some of the challenges you will face include:

· Working with truly global organisations and the related complexity of their compliance requirements;

· Working in a multi-disciplined team to bring the best of Accenture to bear in supporting our clients;

· Working with and managing a multi-shore delivery team to provide cost effective solutions;

· Customising Accenture's core assets to support designs that are appropriate for each client;

· Designing pragmatic but effective cyber security defences for our clients.

· Offers internal management consultancy advice and practical assistance on information security risk and control matters throughout the organization and promotes the commercial advantages of

managing information security risks more efficiently and effectively

· Develops information security strategies;

· Develops information security roadmaps, business cases and remediation plans;

· Contributes towards the preparation and authorizes the implementation of necessary information security policies, standards, procedures and guidelines, in conjunction with the Security

Committee

· Conducts information security risk assessments and control selection activities

· Design and implementation of security processes;

· Definition and development of security control designs including those required to support external regulations;

· Contributes towards the design and operation of related compliance monitoring and improvement activities to ensure compliance both with internal security policies etc. and applicable laws and

regulations

· Designs and executes information security awareness training and educational activities

· Implements security solutions (infrastructure and/or application) including the design, configuration, development, testing and deployment of security-related technologies such as Security

Information & Event Monitoring (SIEM), Identity & Access Management, IDS/IPS, Data Loss Prevention, Digital Rights Management, Network Access Control;

· Routine line management and leadership of staff within the Information Security Management function

· Supports the design, implementation, operation and maintenance of the Information Security Management System based on the ISO/IEC 27000 series standards, including certification against

ISO/IEC 27001 where applicable

· Conducts activities relating to contingency planning, business continuity management and IT disaster recovery in conjunction with relevant functions and third parties

· Previous full-time work experience in information security management and/or related functions (such as IT audit and IT Risk Management)

· A background in technical IT roles such as IT architecture, development or operations, with a clear and abiding interest in information security

· Eagerness to contribute in a team-orientated environment;

· Ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment taking business problems, existing processes and technology and translate these into service and process

requirements

· Desire to work in an information systems environment;

· Strong communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills;

· All candidates must be willing to offer full mobility (i.e. prepared to work away from home Monday to Friday as required);

· Security Certifications are highly desirable.

Qualifications:

· 2.1 Bachelors Degree or equivalent relevant experience

· Relevant Security certifications beneficial

Package:

As well as a highly competitive salary, Accenture offers a comprehensive package including 30 days holiday, 3 additional days for charitable work of your choice, an employee healthcare plan and a competitive pension scheme.

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Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world's most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. With approximately200,000 people serving clients in more than 200 cities in 53 countries, the company generated net revenues of US$21.55 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2010 Its home page is www.accenture.com .

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