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About the Role

As a Manager in the Accenture Cybersecurity Financial Services team, you will lead cybersecurity engagements for major financial organizations. You will combine technical, commercial, regulatory, and industry expertise to help clients address complex cyber risk, resilience, and transformation challenges, while supporting business growth. We are particularly seeking candidates with extensive experience in the insurance industry.

Responsibilities

Lead end-to-end delivery of cybersecurity engagements within financial services organisations, managing scope, timelines, budgets, quality, and stakeholder expectations.
Act as a trusted cybersecurity advisor to client stakeholders, building relationships across business, technology, risk, and security functions.
Conduct cybersecurity strategy assessments, operating model reviews, control evaluations, and transformation planning activities.
Support clients in addressing regulatory requirements and industry expectations relating to cyber resilience, operational resilience, third-party risk, data protection, and emerging technologies.
Identify and articulate risks at business, technology, and programme levels, developing practical and commercially viable remediation strategies.
Assess and enhance cybersecurity capabilities across IAM, cloud security, cyber resilience, security operations, AI security, application security, and third-party risk management.
Design target-state security capabilities, operating models, governance frameworks, and transformation roadmaps.
Develop security control frameworks aligned to recognised industry standards and regulatory expectations, including NIST, ISO 27001, CIS, NIS2, DORA, PRA, FCA, and other applicable requirements.
Produce high-quality client deliverables including maturity assessments, roadmaps, operating models, business cases, risk assessments, and executive presentations.
Maintain awareness of emerging threats, regulatory developments, and innovations impacting the financial services sector.
Identify and develop opportunities within existing client accounts and build relationships with prospective clients.
Support sales pursuits, proposal development, RFP responses, and commercial discussions.
Contribute to account planning, pipeline development, and revenue growth objectives.
Collaborate with industry, alliance, and technology teams to develop differentiated security offerings for the Insurance & Financial Services market.
Lead, coach, and develop teams of cybersecurity consultants across Analyst, Consultant, Associate Manager, and Manager grades.
Provide mentoring, technical guidance, and constructive performance feedback to support career development.
Foster an inclusive, collaborative, and high-performing team culture.
Contribute to practice growth through thought leadership, asset development, recruitment, training, and community initiatives.

Requirements

Extensive experience in cybersecurity for financial services, security transformation, risk management, technology advisory, or related fields.
Experience delivering complex cybersecurity engagements for financial services organisations, including banks, insurers, asset managers, or market infrastructure providers.
Strong understanding of financial services regulatory requirements and industry frameworks.
Proven ability to lead multidisciplinary teams and manage senior client stakeholders.
Flexibility and mobility are important for this role, as there may be opportunities to spend time onsite with clients and partners.

Skills

IAM
Cloud security
Cyber resilience
Security operations
AI security
Application security
Third-party risk management
NIST
ISO 27001
CIS
NIS2
DORA
PRA
FCA

Location

London, UK

Work Type

Hybrid
Client Travel

Experience Level

Manager

Education Level

Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience
Postgraduate qualifications are advantageous
Relevant industry certifications (e.g., CISSP, CISM, CRISC, CCSP, SABSA, TOGAF, cloud security certifications) are desirable.

Salary/Compensations

Competitive Salary & Package (Dependent on Experience)

Benefits

30 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

About the Company

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.
Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships.
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.