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About the Division

The value that Deloitte Risk Advisory Africa creates for organisations is synonymous with operational excellence. Our five business areas work in unison to provide integrated solutions unique to the organisational requirements of any business.

In a world that is constantly changing, organisations need to adapt quickly to respond to new risks and take advantage of new opportunities. Deloitte's Risk Advisory practice advises organisations on how to effectively mitigate risk and make informed and intelligent risk decisions around business processes, technology, and operations. Click here to read more about our Risk Advisory practice.

Click here to see more about what our Cyber Risk team does.

What impact will you make?

Every day, your work will make an impact that matters, while you thrive in a dynamic culture of inclusion, collaboration, and high performance. As the undisputed leader in professional services, Deloitte is where you will find unrivalled opportunities to succeed and realise your full potential.

Job Description

The primary function of this role is to drive the Cyber Strategy portfolio to market. As a Sub-Offering leader, you will be responsible for the definition and implementation of a market focused service offering strategy. This role is expected to set and drive the goals, implementation and execution of the marketing, networking, team capacity building, team skills development, and tools expansion capabilities.

• Translate broader business strategy into a compelling team vision and goals.
• Drive the Cyber Strategy offerings into top clients across industries by selling integrated cyber offerings and solutions.
• Crafting and leading Cyber offering Bids
• Build credible, trusting relationships with C-Suite and technical and senior management at clients.
• Build internal network to understand other business offerings and market own area.
• Understand and interpret complex security-related business challenges and assist the engagement with conceiving innovative Information Security/Cyber solutions for clients to solve their problems through security design and architecture.
• Explore trending areas such as Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI) and Machine Learning (ML) with the aim of automating Cyber service offerings where possible.
• Drive and execute complex project activities and support less experienced team members where required.
• Manage engagement economics to drive profitability.
• Mentor and Develop team members through appropriate delegation of work, maintaining dynamic succession plans and consistent recognition and encouragement.
• Contribute to thought leadership and share knowledge and expertise internally and externally.
• Global approach to networking, building eminence and assembling teams to best serve clients and maximize engagement economics.

Relevant Degree, honours or post graduate diploma, professional qualifications e.g., B.Sc, B.Com, or B.Ing/Eng or M.Sc

Desired qualifications:

Advanced certifications, diplomas, professional certifications, advanced degrees in Cyber Security - examples include:

• Information & Cyber Security Frameworks: ISO27001 Lead Auditor/Implementer Certificate, NIST; CYBOK
• CISM, CISSP, ISMP, CCSP, CRISC
• (ISC)² - Certified in Cybersecurity℠
• (ISC)² - CGRC - Governance, Risk and Compliance

Experience:

• 9-10 years’ experience in a client facing professional, consulting services, public or private sector organisation
• 3 years’ experience in a management role
• Experience in Risk/Governance frameworks (COBIT, ISO, NIST)
• Experience in reviewing Policies, Standards, and procedures to ensure effective, targeted, and actionable analysis
• Experience in Cyber strategy, transformation, and assessments
• Experience in driving and leading projects across cyber security
• Experience in one or more of the following industries: Telecommunications, Media & Technology, FSI, Consumer, Life Sciences & Health

Behavioural Competencies:

• Leverage a keen understanding of the client’s strategy to influence and advise client’s senior leadership on key risk decisions
• Ensure effective risk assessment compilation and mitigation plan execution in alignment with the enterprise risk framework, risk culture and overall business strategy
• Lead projects and provide strategic direction across the account to deliver a superior client experience
• Provide SME on industry trends, innovation efforts and leading practice to client through advice that positively impact return on investment.

Technical Competencies:

• Understand and interpret complex security-related business challenges and ability to respond by conceiving innovative information security/cyber solutions for clients.
• Strong on design and delivery of end-to-end information security solutions which are enabled by technology and can think independently and creatively when formulating information security solutions.

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