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About the Role

As a Financial Services Cybersecurity Analyst, you will work alongside experienced cyber security professionals to help leading banks, insurers, and financial institutions identify risks, strengthen resilience, and navigate emerging cyber threats. You'll gain exposure to cutting-edge topics including Artificial Intelligence (AI), Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM), quantum computing, cyber resilience, and next-generation security technologies. This is an excellent opportunity for individuals who are curious, analytical, and eager to build a career at the intersection of cyber security, technology innovation, and financial services. You will become a pivotal member of a high-performing team working on complex security challenges in the financial sector to help safeguard the economy.

Responsibilities

Support cyber security, technology risk, and resilience assessments for financial services clients.
Assist in identifying cyber threats, vulnerabilities, and emerging risks across technology environments.
Contribute to cyber risk assessments, control reviews, and security maturity assessments.
Support Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) activities, including exposure identification, prioritisation, and remediation tracking.
Research emerging technologies and their security implications, including Artificial Intelligence, quantum computing, cloud technologies, and automation.
Assist in the analysis of cyber threat intelligence and industry trends to identify relevant risks and opportunities.
Support operational resilience and cyber resilience initiatives, including scenario testing, tabletop exercises, and resilience assessments.
Help develop presentations, reports, and recommendations for technical and business stakeholders.
Contribute to security governance, compliance, and regulatory assessments within financial services environments.
Support third-party and supply chain security reviews.
Collaborate with cyber security consultants, architects, data scientists, risk specialists, and client teams on complex transformation programmes.
Develop expertise in industry frameworks, regulatory requirements, and cyber security best practices.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Cyber Security, Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, Business, or a related field.
Experience in cyber security, technology risk, IT audit, technology consulting, engineering, or a related discipline.
Demonstrated interest in cyber security and emerging technologies.
Understanding of core cyber security principles, including risk management, defence-in-depth, identity and access management, and secure-by-design concepts.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Ability to assess information, identify patterns, and communicate findings clearly.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Enthusiasm for learning new technologies and security concepts.
Experience using AI-enabled tools to improve productivity, analysis, or problem solving.

Skills

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM)
Quantum computing
Cyber resilience
Next-generation security technologies
AI-enabled tools
AI security concepts
Post-quantum cryptography
Vulnerability management
Cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud)
NIST
ISO 27001
MITRE ATT&CK
CIS Controls
Cyber resilience
Operational resilience
Business continuity
Disaster recovery

Location

UK (With Client Travel)

Work Type

Flexible and hybrid working arrangements
Client Travel

Experience Level

Senior Analyst

Education Level

Bachelor's degree in Cyber Security, Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, Business, or a related field.

Salary/Compensations

Competitive Salary & Package (Dependent on Experience)

Benefits

25 days annual leave, plus public holidays
Private medical insurance
An additional three days of paid volunteering leave each year
Access to industry-leading learning, certifications, and career development programmes
Opportunities to work with leading financial institutions and global organisations
Flexible and hybrid working arrangements
A diverse, inclusive, and collaborative working environment

About the Company

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services.
We believe in inclusion and diversity and supporting the whole person.
Our core values comprise of Stewardship, Best People, Client Value Creation, One Global Network, Respect for the Individual and Integrity.
Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale.
We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries.
We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability.
Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships.
We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

Equal Opportunity

We believe that no one should be discriminated against because of their differences.
All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by applicable law.
Our rich diversity makes us more innovative, more competitive, and more creative, which helps us better serve our clients and our communities.