Role summary

The Director – Global Cyber Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) Lead, holds a pivotal strategic role within KPMG’s Global Information Security Services (ISS) function.   This role will set the strategic direction for CSIRT, within Global, embedding AI into the core capabilities and leveraging its findings to drive enterprise-wide transformations across firms.  This role must navigate complex regulatory requirements, managing high risk and high pressure decisions, supporting but not limited to providing recommendations to implement isolation of member firm from the network, inline with the crisis protocols

This role presents an exciting opportunity to join a growing team and play a key part in building and shaping the future of the Cyber Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) across the global organisation. Reporting directly to the Global Head of ISS, the Director will stand up the new global CSIRT capability, by developing and leading the continuous improvement of the processes and technologies that support core CSIRT services.  The role will be accountable for budget allocations, resource planning across multiple regions, leveraging 3rd party resources where required to support demand.

The ideal candidate will be a strategic thinker with the ability to design, implement, and oversee CSIRT operations. They will ensure KPMG maintains the capability to respond to and recover from cybersecurity threats on a 24/7 basis across its global network, managing cross-border leaderships, informing Global leadership, IOGC, GCISO, GSIO and equivalents within member firms of key finds to support actions carried out that could lead to disciplinary consequences.

This role also involves staffing and leading a high-performing team dedicated to managing both cybersecurity and information handling incidents within KPMG, mentoring other leaders across the firms and driving talent strategy

This role will be required to act as cyber commander (part of a roster) during a critical or major incident and supporting cyber commanders when off roster.

 

Our Transaction Services practice comprises approximately 500 people across the UK, organised to align to KPMG’s market orientated structure, and is at the heart of the Firm's agenda to increase its penetration of boardrooms and work with clients across the economic and transaction cycle. 

People Consulting Manager - Financial Services

Base Location: London CSQ plus network of 20 offices nationally:

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People Consulting Overview:

People Consulting is an integral part of KPMG’s Management Consultancy practice and a growing part of our business. This team help to transform the performance of organisations by changing the way people are led, managed, and developed. We do this by focusing on two key areas – delivering the people agenda on large scale, complex, change programmes and transforming the HR function by technology.

We have four key capabilities:

• HR Transformation
• Learning solutions
• Organisational Transformation
• Workforce Transformation

• Responsible for the continuous investigation of correlated security event feeds and the appropriate escalation in case of an identified security incident.
• Assess and assist in the creation and improvement (fine-tuning, whitelisting, etc.) of correlation rules, processes and procedures and other related documentation.
• Work with Threat Intelligence and Vulnerability Management to monitor for emerging threat patterns and vulnerabilities.
• Support, advise, assist and mentor L1 and L2 shift Analysts.

The Technology in M&A team at KPMG is a growing and dynamic team. We deal with all aspects of the technology function, from strategy, cloud, digital, technology spend, etc. We work with both acquirers and vendors on pre- and post-deal technology issues.