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About the Role

Join our rapidly growing UK & Ireland Financial Services Cybersecurity Practice as a Financial Service Cybersecurity Risk & Resilience Consultant. 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. You'll work on innovative projects, drive collaboration from strategy through implementation, and use the latest technologies to help clients advance.

Responsibilities

Help leading banks, insurers, capital markets firms, and payment providers strengthen their resilience to cyber threats, technology failures, and operational disruptions.
Work with clients to identify, assess, and manage cyber and technology risk while supporting compliance with evolving regulatory and operational resilience requirements.
Support clients in identifying, assessing, and managing cyber, technology, and operational resilience risks across critical business services and technology environments.
Assist in the development and implementation of cyber resilience, operational resilience, and technology risk management frameworks.
Conduct risk assessments, control reviews, and resilience evaluations to identify vulnerabilities and improvement opportunities.
Support the design and execution of scenario testing, cyber exercises, tabletop exercises, and resilience validation activities.
Assess the effectiveness of security, technology, and operational controls against regulatory requirements and industry standards.
Contribute to the identification of important business services, impact tolerances, and supporting assets within operational resilience programmes.
Support third-party and supply chain risk management activities, including security assessments and due diligence reviews.
Help clients prepare for, respond to, and learn from cyber incidents and operational disruption events.
Interpret regulatory requirements and translate them into practical policies, controls, and implementation plans.
Produce clear risk reports, presentations, and recommendations for stakeholders and governance forums.
Work collaboratively with client teams across security, technology, risk, compliance, and business functions to drive resilience outcomes.
Support the delivery of client engagements, including workshops, assessments, maturity reviews, and transformation programmes.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Cyber Security, Information Technology, Business, Risk Management, Finance, or a related discipline.
Experience in cyber security, technology risk, operational resilience, risk management, or a related field.
Experience working within financial services or other highly regulated industries.
Understanding of cyber risk management, operational resilience, business continuity, disaster recovery, and incident response principles.
Knowledge of common security and risk frameworks such as NIST, ISO 27001, COBIT, CIS Controls, and FFIEC guidance.
Familiarity with financial services regulatory requirements relating to technology risk and resilience.
Experience conducting risk assessments, control reviews, audits, compliance assessments, or governance activities.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to assess complex risks and develop practical recommendations.
Excellent written, verbal, and stakeholder management skills.
Demonstrated ability to leverage AI-enabled tools to improve efficiency, insight generation, or risk management outcomes.

Skills

Cyber Security
Technology Risk
Operational Resilience
Risk Management
NIST
ISO 27001
COBIT
CIS Controls
FFIEC guidance
AI-enabled tools

Location

UK (With Client Travel)

Work Type

Flexible
Hybrid
Client Travel

Experience Level

Consultant

Education Level

Bachelor's degree

Salary/Compensations

Competitive Salary & Package (Dependent on Experience)

Benefits

30 days annual leave, plus public holidays
Private medical insurance
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 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.