Uk Biso Senior Manager

Team description:
PwC's global cybersecurity strategy revolves around 4 key points: to identify, control, and reduce the attack surface across the member firm network, and increase our adversaries' cost of attack. Our mission protects 223,000+ PwC members across 157 member firms worldwide, as well as our global clients.
The UK Business Information Security Officer (BISO) team works closely with business leadership + stakeholders to understand their business model and roadmap for technology, acting as the primary interface between the business and the global security organisation. Management of relationships with the business is key to delivering on our global cybersecurity strategy. Whether it be implementing new solutions, driving operational effectiveness and efficiency or providing guidance back to global teams to further enhance our strategy, the UK BISO team provides the engagement and builds stakeholder relationships to enable the security organisation to deliver maximum value to the firm.
We are hiring for an experienced BISO to join the team to continue building their cyber security career.
What does the role look like?
The Senior UK BISO Information Security Officer (BISO) is the key relationship contact for specific area(s) of the UK firm, working closely with both the senior leadership and providing security guidance and support across the rest of the business. The role is relied upon to ensure strategic alignment between the business and the firm's security strategy, as well as ensuring ongoing information security policy compliance.
The role involves lots of relationship building, lots of problem solving, lots of joining the dots! In particular around:

• Proactively develop and maintain regular relationship engagement with business senior leadership
• Gain a deep understanding of business teams' strategy, maturity, operations, priorities and pressures, and ensure the appropriate security teams are engaged to enable successful business outcomes
• Taking data and translating into a relatable, digestible, creative form to use with business teams
• Management of security projects and security hygiene sprints
• Assisting with identification and management of information security risk areas eg: vulnerabilities, control deficiencies etc - working with dedicated teams to resolve and escalate to leadership where needed
• Guide business teams on navigating security assessment processes and teams, providing security risk guidance and support
• Upskill business teams on security awareness and best practices
• Line management/coaching for team members
• Working closely with BISO Team Leader, UK CISO + Deputy CISO on delivery of key projects

What do you need for this role?

• Thrive on helping people with problem solving, stakeholder management/customer service outlook - working with business teams to achieve positive outcome
• Inquisitive nature and intuition regarding what questions to ask, when, and their relative significance
• Action orientated/driven mentality
• Engaging communication skills to assist, inform, and build relationships with stakeholders in both the business and support teams, to enable effective information security activities and processes aligned to the firm's security strategy
• Previous proven experience in similar senior information security / cyber role, working with senior leadership
• Broad understanding of technology and how security is applied to technology in an enterprise setting
• Experience implementing change around the human behaviour side of cyber security and understanding of it's benefits
• Knowledge of risk assurance and technical security principles
• Data manipulation and visualization skills highly desirable - eg: PowerBI
• An interest of PwC's business model, service offerings, and business operating environment as it pertains to the firm's threat landscape

Please note: this is a hybrid role, ideally based in Manchester//Belfast.