Senior Manager

Job description / Role

Line of Service
Internal Firm Services

Specialism
IFS - Risk & Quality (R&Q)

Management Level
Senior Manager

Job Description & Summary
The Network Information Security (NIS) team at PwC is searching for talented security and technology professionals to support act as CISO to the Middle East firm.

Operating on a local, regional and global scale, Network Information Security (NIS) is responsible for the definition of our security strategy to hands on execution of our global Cyber Readiness Program, moving from predominantly local to centralised services.

If you are seeking an exciting career with the scope to grow your cyber security through major change on a global scale, then NIS will empower you to do so. NIS built the first global cyber security function at PwC. Our mission protects 300,000 PwC members across 160 member firms worldwide as well as our global clients.

The role:
As the PwC Middle East CISO you will work across the Middle East firms to continue to drive the maturation of the member firm information security risk posture based on global strategy, member firm business requirement and risk appetite. You will be responsible for driving the global Network Information Security (NIS) Program within the Middle East territories and will act as the common link between local leadership and global NIS functions for all information security-related topics. You'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution.

PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:

- Develop new skills outside of your comfort zone.
- Act to resolve issues which prevent the team working effectively.
- Coach others, recognise their strengths, and encourage them to take ownership of their personal development.
- Analyse complex ideas or proposals and build a range of meaningful recommendations.
- Use multiple sources of information including broader stakeholder views to develop solutions and recommendations.
- Address sub-standard work or work that does not meet firm's/client's expectations.
- Use data and insights to inform conclusions and support decision-making.
- Develop a point of view on key global trends, and how they impact clients.
- Manage a variety of viewpoints to build consensus and create positive outcomes for all parties.
- Simplify complex messages, highlighting and summarising key points.
- Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.

Requirements

About you:

- 8-10 year(s) progressive professional roles involving information security and/or IT management. Bachelor degree preferred.
- Demonstrates extensive knowledge of, and/or proven record of success in, firm priorities, Network Information Security concepts, principles and standards and their application in a large enterprise environment, preferably for a global network of professional services firms.
- Demonstrates thought leader-level knowledge and/or a proven record of success directing efforts in driving execution of strategic priorities.
- Proven, refined abilities and success in identifying and addressing leadership and stakeholder needs to overcome challenges and gain a positive result.
- Extensive experience in stakeholder management including and influencing others through leadership interactions across a broad structure to build and maintain relationships across a network to effectively deliver security activities.
- Proven record of managing multi-function relationships throughout major transformation and collaborating with multiple stakeholders across functional and technical skillsets to identify, build and maintain security capabilities or controls.
- Extensive abilities, and/or proven record of success, supporting and/or coordinating Information Security Governance to enhance to decrease repeat findings and issues, and make other process efficiency improvements.
- Proven people management experience to provide coaching and development for others to maximise their potential.

About the Company

At PwC Middle East, we've set out an ambitious purpose and strive to live it everyday: to solve important problems and build trust in society.

We're a community of solvers that come together in unexpected ways to build trust and create sustained outcomes. We solve important problems, support one another as we grow, develop and build fulfilling careers.

PwC provides industry-focused services for public and private clients across Assurance and Audit, Deals, Consulting, Tax and Legal. We draw on our development legacy that brings together the collective experience of over 7,000 people in our region with offices across 12 countries to solve for tomorrow.

We're striving to consistently deliver innovative work that builds trust and delivers sustained outcomes. And we're proud of the strength that comes from all our different backgrounds and experiences and we value everyone's uniqueness. We thrive in uncertainty, operate with integrity and leverage the diverse perspectives of our teams.

If you're looking for a place that fuels your ambition to make a difference, that matches your curiosity with continuous learning opportunities and reimagines ways of working to enable you to lead a more balanced life, then you're a future PwCer.