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About the Role
This role involves leading and delivering cyber due diligence, post-deal reviews, remediation programs, and cyber risk assessments for M&A transactions. You will advise senior collaborators on cyber strategy and present cyber risk insights to private equity sponsors and clients.
Responsibilities
- Lead and deliver cyber due diligence, post-deal reviews, remediation programmes and cyber risk assessments across a range of M&A transactions.
- Partner with high-performing Cyber Solutions specialists across London and EMEA to provide best-in-class advisory services.
- Support the full Cyber M&A sales cycle, including client pitches, proposals, onboarding and relationship development.
- Advise senior collaborators on cyber strategy for due diligence, integrations, carve-outs, incident response and wider transaction-related activities.
- Present cyber risk insights and recommendations to private equity sponsors, portfolio companies and corporate clients, while helping enhance and scale our delivery model.
Requirements
- Strong understanding of core cyber security domains including IAM, data security, incident response, vulnerability management, network security, business continuity and monitoring.
- Experience assessing and evidencing controls against recognised frameworks such as NIST CSF, CIS Controls, ISO 27001, OWASP SAMM, NIST AI RMF and related standards.
- Ability to prioritise findings based on business impact, exploitability, remediation effort and financial exposure.
- Expertise in one or more specialist areas including AI security, cloud security (Azure, AWS, GCP), network security, OT/ICS environments, or SDLC/DevSecOps security.
- Knowledge of key regulatory and governance requirements including GDPR, NIS2, DORA, FCA/PRA expectations, Operational Resilience, EU Cyber Resilience Act and EU AI Act.
- Ability to translate technical cyber risks into commercial, financial and investment implications for clients and collaborators.
- Experience working in M&A, private equity, transaction advisory, portfolio company or corporate deal environments.
- Proven capability to develop and deliver client proposals, presentations and business development activities.
- Experience supporting multiple stages of the deal lifecycle, including cyber due diligence, post-close reviews, 100-day planning, portfolio programmes, carve-outs, integrations and exit readiness.
- Additional experience with scripting and automation tools such as Python, PowerShell or Bash would be advantageous.
Skills
- Cyber technical knowledge
- Client-facing skills
- IAM
- Data security
- Incident response
- Vulnerability management
- Network security
- Business continuity
- Monitoring
- NIST CSF
- CIS Controls
- ISO 27001
- OWASP SAMM
- NIST AI RMF
- AI security
- Cloud security (Azure, AWS, GCP)
- OT/ICS environments
- SDLC/DevSecOps security
- GDPR
- NIS2
- DORA
- FCA/PRA expectations
- Operational Resilience
- EU Cyber Resilience Act
- EU AI Act
- Python
- PowerShell
- Bash
Location
- London
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Associate Director
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package
- Agile environment
- Two Global Wellbeing Days per year
- Continuous learning culture
About the Company
- Aon is in the business of better decisions.
- At Aon, we shape decisions for the better to protect and enrich the lives of people around the world.
- As an organisation, we are united through trust as one inclusive team, and we are passionate about helping our colleagues and clients succeed.
- Aon Transaction Advisory is one of the fastest-growing and most innovative teams.
- Aon values an innovative and inclusive workplace where all colleagues feel empowered to be their authentic selves.
Equal Opportunity
- Aon is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.
- Aon provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran, marital, domestic partner status, or other legally protected status.
- We welcome applications from all and provide individuals with disabilities with reasonable adjustments to participate in the job application and interview process, and to perform essential job functions once onboard.