GRC Cyber Consultant

Job Summary

Role: Cyber Information Assurance Specialist

Location: Any Accenture UK location

Career Level: Level 9 – Specialist

Security Clearance: Offer of employment subject to satisfactory BPSS and SC clearance, requiring 5 years UK address history with no periods >30 consecutive days outside UK.

Responsibilities

• Apply assurance principles across laws, regulations, standards and frameworks.
• Identify real‑world security risks and support stakeholders in understanding and managing them effectively.
• Take a practical, hands‑on approach to assurance and control evaluation.
• Build experience in operational assurance within a business context.
• Broaden understanding of cybersecurity domains such as security management, architecture, engineering and operations.
• Contribute to service delivery and project work, with opportunities to gain experience in Agile and DevOps environments.

Qualifications

• Awareness of major cloud technologies, with experience reviewing, assessing or risk‑managing at least one platform such as Azure or AWS.
• Solid foundational understanding of information risk, including how to identify, assess, prioritise and communicate risks in a structured way.
• Collaborative approach, working effectively with technical and business teams to support assurance activities, supported by a working knowledge of key security standards and good‑practice frameworks such as ISO 27001, the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, and relevant controls guidance (e.g. NIST SP 800‑53).
• Understanding of how security management systems are designed and operated.
• Experience supporting threat and vulnerability management activities.
• Ability to review and assess security controls to understand their effectiveness in reducing risk.

Desired Skills

• Building positive working relationships with colleagues and stakeholders in security‑related roles.
• Contributing to the drafting or improvement of security policies and processes.
• Supporting the delivery of security assurance activities for projects or systems.
• Keeping up to date with emerging security threats, trends, and technologies.

Benefits

• Competitive basic salary.
• Extensive benefits package including 25 days’ vacation per year, private medical insurance, and 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice.
• Flexibility and mobility required, with onsite engagements with clients and partners as necessary.

Accenture is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of society and does not discriminate on grounds of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, or gender identity, or any other basis as protected by applicable law.