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West Monroe is searching for an Experienced Consultant to join our growing Cybersecurity practice and focus on IT security advisory and solutions delivery for clients across various industries! Projects may include security controls analysis, risk/compliance assessments, and/or strategy & roadmap development. This is an exciting opportunity to join a high-growth firm with an employee-centric culture and play a pivotal role in improving security posture across enterprise environments.
Responsibilities:
- Provide strategic cybersecurity advisory and consulting services for enterprise clients, ranging from policy definition to implementation, adoption, and enforcement
- Deliver our Cybersecurity Advisory for Private Equity (CAPE) program/offering – to provide ongoing visibility into security practices, risks, and threats across a PE firm’s entire portfolio
- Leverage industry-accepted frameworks for current-state risk/controls review of existing organizations – risk/compliance adherence, processes, technologies – while developing implementation strategies and roadmaps to guide solution delivery
- Perform assessments, identify risks, highlight vulnerabilities, and determine a client’s ability to protect against attacks, detect active threats, and respond/recover from incidents
- Develop recommendations and strategies for improving cybersecurity programs
- Promote thought leadership in emerging cybersecurity technologies and best practices through activities like blogs, white papers, and attending industry event
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in relevant field preferred, or equivalent experience required
- Consulting firm/industry experience preferred, including developed client interviewing skills
- 1-4+ years of experience in Cybersecurity, Information Security, IT Audit, or Tech Consulting
- Background in any common cybersecurity domains – risk & compliance, privacy, strategy & operations, incident response, cloud security, network security, application security, data protection, identity and access management,
- Preference for experience working on security risk & controls assessment projects, leveraging industry-accepted frameworks such as NIST
- Comfortable conveying complex cybersecurity concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Achieved or pursuit of cyber industry and technical certifications to support developing skills
- Proficient verbal, presentation/facilitation, and written communication skills
- Willingness to travel for out of town client engagements (10-25% travel)
- Hybrid role: 2x per week in office
- Must be eligible to work in the US without sponsorship now or in the future
Based on pay transparency guidelines, the salary range for this role is listed below. Information on our competitive total rewards package, including our bonus structure and benefits is here. Individual salaries are determined by evaluating a variety of factors including geography, experience, skills, education, and internal equity.
Employees (and their families) are covered by medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance. Employees are able to enroll in our company’s 401k plan, purchase shares from our employee stock ownership program and be eligible to receive annual bonuses. Employees will also receive unlimited flexible time off and ten paid holidays throughout the calendar year. Eligibility for ten weeks of paid parental leave will also be available upon hire date.
Based on pay transparency guidelines, the salary range for this role is listed below. Information on our competitive total rewards package, including our bonus structure and benefits is here. Individual salaries are determined by evaluating a variety of factors including geography, experience, skills, education, and internal equity.
Employees (and their families) are covered by medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance. Employees are able to enroll in our company’s 401k plan, purchase shares from our employee stock ownership program and be eligible to receive annual bonuses. Employees will also receive unlimited flexible time off and ten paid holidays throughout the calendar year. Eligibility for ten weeks of paid parental leave will also be available upon hire date.
Based on pay transparency guidelines, the salary range for this role is listed below. Information on our competitive total rewards package, including our bonus structure and benefits is here. Individual salaries are determined by evaluating a variety of factors including geography, experience, skills, education, and internal equity.
Employees (and their families) are covered by medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance. Employees are able to enroll in our company’s 401k plan, purchase shares from our employee stock ownership program and be eligible to receive annual bonuses. Employees will also receive unlimited flexible time off and ten paid holidays throughout the calendar year. Eligibility for ten weeks of paid parental leave will also be available upon hire date.
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