[Hiring] Principal Consultant, GRC @Trustwave

Role Description

This role will require you to be a salesperson, a trusted advisor, a people manager, a project manager and a mentor. Individuals will possess a rare mix of business development, team management and consulting delivery skills.

• Delivery of consulting tasks at a strategic level – defining and solving complex problems
• Ability to understand business drivers and align advice and deliverables to suit
• Management for a select set of Trustwave customers throughout the project lifecycle
• Liaise with business and project stakeholders across selected projects as required to provide input and feedback during project delivery
• Oversight and management of projects allocated to you and some of the team’s delivery
• Required visibility of the customer’s requirements, deliverables and the ability to ensure the team deliver the output to the high Trustwave standard
• Building relationships with existing customers and developing relationships with potential clients
• Bring a network of contacts in the industry
• The ability to progress opportunities from lead to close
• Build awareness of the Trustwave brand through industry networks and presentations

Qualifications

• At least 5+ years of experience in information security or technical governance, operations or assurance type roles
• 2+ years managerial experience in an information security leadership role
• 2+ years of experience in selling information security services or solutions
• Thorough understanding of risk management and how it relates to cyber security
• Experience in an internal-advisory/external-consulting role utilising Federal Government PSPF & ISM Frameworks
• An analytical mindset (particularly when it comes to technology and business risk)
• Experience developing security risk assessments (SRA), System Security Plans (SSP), System Security Plan Annexes and other supporting documentation
• Experience with these standards is a plus: NIST-CSF, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, ISM, PSPF
• The ability to keep up to date with multiple security technologies
• Azure or AWS certifications would be beneficial

Requirements

• Highly developed leadership and influencing skills
• Self-awareness and exceptional ‘EQ’ and soft skills
• Demonstrated highly developed oral and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate comfortably with large groups and executives, and to articulate technical concepts and solutions to non-technical stakeholders
• Ability to collaborate, maintain working relationships with, and gain the trust of stakeholders throughout customer organisations
• Developed ability to identify and develop above skills in others
• High level ability to take the initiative, make informed and measured decisions and deliver outcomes from those decisions
• The ability to analyse and simplify complex problems, evaluate them systematically, identify causal relationships and construct frameworks for problem solving
• The ability to think ahead and establish an appropriate course of action taking into account the constraints imposed for own as well as other’s projects

Benefits

• Professional development budget each year
• Annual bonus
• Flexible work arrangements
• Cake ceremonies
• Casual dress code