Security Consulting Practitioner

About Accenture

Accenture helps the world’s leading enterprises reinvent by building their digital core and unleashing the power of AI to create value at speed for organizations across industries. Our strategy is to be the reinvention partner of choice for our clients and lead in the safe, widespread adoption of AI, and to be the most client-focused, AI-enabled, great place to work in the world. We bring together the talent of our approximately 786,000 people with proprietary assets and platforms, deep process and industry expertise, and leading ecosystem relationships to deliver end-to-end solutions and measurable outcomes at scale. Through our Reinvention Services, we offer broad expertise across Cybersecurity, Digital Core, Finance, Industry and Enterprise, Song, Supply Chain and Engineering, and Talent, with advanced capabilities in AI and Data, Industry and Process, and Technology. We serve approximately 9,000 clients and generated approximately $70 billion in FY25 revenue. Visit us at accenture.com.

Accenture Technology

Through unmatched industry experience, leading technologies from our ecosystem partners and startups, and the largest delivery network in the world, we provide a powerful range of capabilities that can be tailored to our client’s most complex business needs. With over 100 innovation hubs deployed around the world, we help clients continuously innovate at speed and at scale so they can outpace their peers. You will bring innovation, intelligence and industry experience together with the newest technologies to help clients innovate at scale and transform their businesses.

Technology is one of four services that make up one Accenture –the others are Strategy and Consulting, Interactive and Operations.

Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

Risk Management:

• Effectively communicate Cybersecurity risks and posture to senior management.
• Develop risk mitigation strategies to effectively manage risk in accordance with organizational risk appetite
• Ensure that decisions relating to Cybersecurity are based on sound risk management principles
• Perform risk analysis whenever an application or system undergoes a major change
• Provide input to the risk management framework and related documentation
• Ensure Cybersecurity risks are identified and managed appropriately through the organization's risk governance process.
• Carry out a Cybersecurity risk assessments
• Work with others to implement and maintain a Cybersecurity risk management program
• Identify and assign individuals to specific roles associated with the execution of the Risk Management Framework
• Establish a risk management strategy for the organization that includes a determination of risk tolerance
• Conduct an initial risk assessment of stakeholder assets and update the risk assessment on an ongoing basis
• Work with organizational officials to ensure continuous monitoring tool data provides situation awareness of risk levels
• Use risk management related tools such as eGRC and monitoring tools to assess risks
• Develop methods to effectively monitor and measure risk, compliance, and assurance efforts.
• Determine and document supply chain risks for critical system elements, where they exist.

Compliance & Regulation:

• Analyze the organization's Cybersecurity policies and configurations to evaluate compliance with regulations and organization compliance frameworks
• Recognize patterns of non-compliance with Cybersecurity policies and related documentation to identify ways to improve the documentation
• Periodically review Cybersecurity strategy, policies, and related documents to maintain compliance with applicable legislation and regulation
• Work with stakeholders to resolve Cybersecurity incidents and vulnerability compliance issues
• Develop methods to effectively monitor and measure risk, compliance, and assurance efforts
• Develop specifications to ensure that risk, compliance, and assurance efforts conform with Cybersecurity requirements.
• Monitor and evaluate a system's compliance with Cybersecurity, resilience, and dependability requirements
• Develop Cybersecurity compliance processes and audits for services provided by third parties
• Maintain knowledge of applicable legislation, regulation, and accreditation standards and regularly review these to ensure continued organizational compliance
• Cooperate with relevant regulatory agencies and other legal entities in any compliance reviews or investigations.