Accenture Hiring for Cybersecurity Risk Controls Associate Manager at Irving, Texas Full Time

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ACCENTURE SECURITY

Accenture Security delivers continuous, rapid-fire innovation and new business capabilities that meet —and redefine—the needs of the digital era. You’ll help our clients—including 94 of the Fortune 100 and governments around the world—transform their technology infrastructures using resources that range from cloud, data centers, and workplace to networks, security, and managed services.

We Are

Accenture Security helps organizations prepare, protect, detect, respond, and recover along with all points of the security lifecycle. Cybersecurity challenges are different for every business in every industry. Leveraging our global resources and advanced technologies, we create integrated, turnkey solutions tailored to our client’s needs across their entire value chain. Whether we’re defending against known cyberattacks, detecting and responding to the unknown, or running an entire security operations center, we will help companies build cyber resilience to grow with confidence. Our team of the security sector’s brightest people uses the coolest tech to out-hack the hackers and help clients build resilience from within. We blend risk strategy, digital identity, cyber defense, application security, and managed service solutions to rethink the entire security lifecycle.

We are currently looking for professionals for our Managed Security Services aka “MSS” practice with extensive experience in the following:

You Are

Proven success in contributing to a team-oriented environment

Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment

Desire to work in a fast-paced and highly collaborative environment

Excellent leadership, communication (written and oral), and interpersonal skills

Can apply deep security skills to design, build and protect enterprise systems, applications, data, assets, and people for Accenture and our clients

The Work (Role Responsibility)

Although no two days at Accenture are the same, your duties as IT Security & Controls Consultant likely will include:

• Bring risk and controls testing expertise for IT controls

• Prepare control testing scripts, plans, agendas to help the client through the test execution process

• Document testing working papers with evidence and discussions through observation/inquiry with various client stakeholders

• Assemble IT control testing working papers, respond to client audit requests

• Drive planning and strategy for compliance function/tower as whole

• Drive key meetings with client stakeholders

• Provide test execution status and complete executive reporting

• Provide detailed analysis of test execution status by phase

• Undertake risk assessment activities, risk/issue intake, and policy management/exception processing

• Have strong written and spoken communication skills

  Here’s What You Need (Basic Qualifications)

• Minimum of 4 years of experience with Risk & Control testing for IT Controls

• Minimum of 4 years of experience with IT Testing Controls protocols (IE. SOX, PCI, ISO & NIST)

• Minimum of 4 years of experience with End-To-End Testing plus able to demonstrate the following:

• Work independently

• Test of Design

• Test of Effectiveness

  Bonus Points If (Preferred Skills)

• One or more professional designations such as CISA, CISM, CRISC, CISSP would be desired

• Bring risk and controls testing expertise for IT controls

• Prepare control testing scripts, plans, agendas to help the client through the test execution process

• College Degree

• Ability to Travel to West Coast

• Working in PST Time Zone

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