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About the Role

The Digital Risks team helps clients understand the evolving threat landscape, protect critical assets, respond to crises, and maximize technology adoption benefits. This role will drive business development and consulting engagements, serve as a trusted advisor to senior executives, manage complex projects, originate new business, and collaborate across practice areas to enhance client resilience against evolving threats.

Responsibilities

Serve as a trusted advisor to senior executives and boards, providing strategic guidance on digital risk, resilience, regulatory expectations, technology-driven threats, and emerging technologies.
Translate complex technical and risk insights into clear, commercially relevant recommendations for non-technical audiences.
Lead the development and delivery of executive briefings, strategic assessments, and transformation programmes.
Lead and oversee complex consulting engagements across digital risk, including cybersecurity, technology governance, and organisational resilience.
Guide the design and execution of maturity assessments, control reviews, and risk analyses using industry frameworks and regulatory models.
Ensure deliverables provide actionable, pragmatic, and business-aligned recommendations.
Provide quality assurance and directional oversight to ensure deliverables meet high standards.
Advise clients on regional and global regulatory obligations relating to cybersecurity, data governance, technology operations, and third-party risk.
Engage relevant external specialists and integrate their outputs for seamless advisory solutions.
Provide senior guidance during digital incidents, investigations, or technology-related crises.
Apply principles of crisis management, stakeholder communication, and risk assessment to help clients respond to disruptive events.
Support scenario planning, simulation exercises, and resilience-building initiatives.
Oversee multiple concurrent projects, ensuring consistent quality, methodological rigour, and strong client satisfaction.
Lead project teams through scoping, delivery, and reporting.
Promote cross-service collaboration to deliver integrated, multi-disciplinary solutions.
Grow and sustain senior client relationships, acting as an ambassador for Control Risks.
Identify new opportunities, shape proposals, and contribute to key account growth.
Represent the practice at industry events, conferences, and through thought leadership activities.
Coach, mentor, and develop consultants at all levels, fostering a high-performing, inclusive, and collaborative culture.
Contribute to the development and improvement of methodologies, frameworks, knowledge assets, and service innovation.
Role model firm values, champion cross-regional collaboration, and support the Partner in practice development.
Travel when required for client leadership, business development, and key delivery milestones.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, cybersecurity, information technology, risk management or a related field (or equivalent experience).
Significant experience in digital risk, cybersecurity, technology risk, or integrated risk advisory roles.
Significant experience advising C-suite and Board-level stakeholders, translating complex technical risk into strategic and commercial implications.
Proven ability to lead complex, multi-disciplinary consulting engagements and manage diverse senior stakeholders across regions.
Demonstrated success in originating business, growing key accounts, and shaping proposal strategies.
Strong understanding of cybersecurity, technology governance, digital resilience, and core security domains.
Experience navigating regional regulatory environments (e.g., NIS2, DORA, sectoral regulators e.g. FCA, PRA and privacy frameworks).
Demonstrated ability to analyse complex security data and deliver clear, actionable recommendations informed by industry best practices.
Proven experience leading, developing, and mentoring teams to deliver high-quality outcomes.
Experience working across multiple jurisdictions and cultures, ideally within Europe, the Middle East or other complex regulatory markets.
Strong communication and executive-level presentation skills, including the ability to articulate strategic point-of-view to non-technical audiences.
Experience with emerging digital-risk areas such as AI governance, cloud-native architectures, OT/ICS security, digital supply chain resilience, and / or third-party technology risk.
Demonstrated contribution to thought leadership, industry engagement, or external speaking.
Strong project and programme management capability, with experience overseeing multi-stream, large-scale transformation or risk uplift programmes.
High digital fluency, including comfort with collaboration tools, CRM systems, data-driven insights, and new ways of working.
Experience providing senior guidance during major incidents or technology-related crises.

Skills

Digital risk
Cybersecurity
Technology risk
Integrated risk advisory
C-suite and Board-level advisory
Strategic guidance
Resilience
Regulatory expectations
Emerging technologies
Crisis management
Stakeholder communication
Risk assessment
Scenario planning
Simulation exercises
Project management
Programme management
Business development
Client relationship management
Team leadership
Mentoring
Thought leadership
Industry engagement
AI governance
Cloud-native architectures
OT/ICS security
Digital supply chain resilience
Third-party technology risk
NIS2
DORA
FCA
PRA
Privacy frameworks
Collaboration tools
CRM systems
Data-driven insights

Location

London

Work Type

Hybrid working

Experience Level

Director
Principal

Education Level

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, cybersecurity, information technology, risk management or a related field (or equivalent experience)
Professional certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CRISC, CISA, or cloud-security or privacy-related certifications (preferred but not essential)

Salary/Compensations

Competitively positioned compensation and benefits package

Benefits

Discretionary global bonus scheme
Hybrid working arrangements

About the Company

Control Risks draws on global reach and local risk expertise worldwide.
The Digital Risks team helps clients understand the evolving threat landscape, protect critical assets, respond to crises, and maximize technology adoption benefits.

Equal Opportunity

As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join us and are fully committed to equal treatment, free from discrimination, of all candidates throughout our recruitment process.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to be made in order to participate fully in the interview process, please let us know and we will be happy to accommodate your needs.