Manager/Senior Manager

Description
Ashurst Risk Advisory was created to respond to client demand and is designed to provide risk expertise that complements Ashurst's core legal services.

We provide the opportunity to work with an expertise-led team that has been consistently growing since its inception, and is dedicated to collaboration, diversity, transparency and innovation. Our vision is to create a unique culture in the consulting market based around a flat, collaborative structure that offers everyone the opportunity to work closely with Directors, Partners and clients on engagements. This means you have on the job training with your leaders, direct involvement with business development, clear recognition for your performance, and greater career opportunities.

What makes Ashurst a great place to work?

• Flexible work options
• Market leading parental leave of 26 weeks paid leave irrespective of gender
• Health and wellbeing benefits, gym membership and corporate health plans
• Genuine opportunities to grow your career through secondments or global opportunities,
• Extensive Learning & Development opportunities including tailored professional development for all employees, coaching, mentoring and study support for further education.
• We have a strong commitment to social impact, demonstrated by our extensive volunteering and pro-bono opportunities, as well as our award-winning social inclusion and mobility programs.

The Opportunity:
Our Cyber Risk and Resilience team is driven by a purpose to make complex cyber security concepts accessible to leadership teams, adopting robust risk-based methodologies to align cyber with our clients' strategic imperatives and help build cyber resilience. As a result of rapid growth, we are looking to hire an Executive (equivalent to a Senior Manager in Big4 consulting) in Brisbane, Melbourne or Sydney.

You will be an integral member of a team that delivers strategic advice and implementation support to organisations, their Boards and Executive leadership teams as they navigate pathways to cyber resilience, compliance and crisis response. While you don't need to have a highly technical skillset, you do need an understanding of cyber security risks, concepts, frameworks, and practices. Your ability to communicate complex risk and security concepts in plain language, to senior stakeholders, and to provide pragmatic, business-relevant advice on implementing cybersecurity strategies will make you a highly desirable candidate. You will also need to be independently driven and highly effective working under pressure as we regularly help our clients respond to live cyber incidents and crises. The team's clients are diverse and span multiple industries including financial services, government, energy, resources and other critical infrastructure sectors, corporates, and leisure.

Please ensure you review the job description attached to the role on our careers site for more detail on the role and what we are looking for

About you:

• You have 5+ years of working experience in:

• cybersecurity and/or technology risk management ideally within a consulting environment, and are comfortable with the common tools, frameworks and standards in this space. AND/OR

• business continuity, emergency, or crisis management either with a cyber or technology focus or you can demonstrate the parallels to these fields.

• You're a self-starter who is keen to work in a fast-paced environment that is always evolving and requires you to be proactive, confident and humble, embracing alternate viewpoints.

• You bring an innovative mindset and approach and are confident in autonomously finding solutions to a range of problems, especially those related to risk management, in a commercial and client focused way.
• You have proven experience delivering high quality work for clients and stakeholders in line with expectations and deadlines and with an innovative mindset and approach. You have experience providing the highest quality service to clients and fostering professional and commercial relationships with a range of stakeholders.
• You have proven experience in business development including developing go-to-market material and proposals.

We value diverse perspectives at Ashurst, so even if you don't feel you meet all of the requirements, we still encourage you to apply.

For more information or if you require any support and adjustments to participate equitably in our recruitment process or in the workplace, we encourage you to contact: for a confidential conversation.

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply directly to Ashurst. We prefer to talk with you personally and are not accepting applications from recruitment agencies.