Information Security Consultant

Outstanding long-term contract opportunity! A well-known Financial Services Company is looking for a Information Security Analyst in Dallas, TX Secondary Locations – St. Louis MO, Charlotte NC, Des Moines IA, Tempe/Phoenix AZ (Hybrid 3 days onsite per week)

Work with the brightest minds at one of the largest financial institutions in the world. This is a long-term contract opportunity that includes a competitive benefit package!

Information Security Analyst - prefers Big 5 consulting background

Term: Contract 6 month to 24 months and/or FTE conversion

W-2 - Green Card, USC, EAD GC OR H4 candidates only

Supporting Cybersecurity LOB

Notes from manager–

• looking for someone with experience identifying Vulnerabilities with Vender Infrastructure and Applications
• Supporting Management Controls and will escalate to senior leadership vulnerabilities as identified and evaluating solutions.
• Experience supporting Audits, communicating and participating in meetings with senior leadership and collect feedback. Must have attention to details.
• Experience with Risk and Controls
• Prefer Big 5 Consulting experience.
• Ideally have experience with Excel Macros

What you will be doing:

• Serve as an analyst in executing the risk management control for vulnerability consequence model escalation.
• Take daily direction from the control lead and overarching direction from the hiring manager.
• Collaborate with other team members involved in executing this control in a collaborative teamwork fashion.
• Identify improvements and lead efforts to implement the improvements to control execution and underlying technology and procedures.
• Develop an understanding of incoming work, identify the affected parties, communicate action needed concisely.
• Work with the remediation owners and their leadership to provide guidance on actions required
• Track deliverables until completed, escalating when deliverables are missed.
• Craft communications and reports which provide transparency into progress and insight into problems or actions needed.
• Retain evidence and artifacts demonstrating the quality of execution of this work in support of audit and control reviews and quality assurance assessments.
• Consult with line of business on the consistent implementation of the enterprise information security model and solutions to remediate information security risks
• Ensure that risks to all information assets are being managed in a timely and effective manner to meet the Information Security Program requirements and the current threat landscape
• Ensure information security capabilities are included in all aspects of the company's technology architecture
• Proactively manage the information security risk profile of line of business information assets throughout the lifecycle of the asset

Required:

• 4+ years of Information Security Analysis experience, Risk and Controls
• 2+ years of advanced Excel data analysis
• Extremely strong attention to detail in recognition that this is a heavily audited enterprise risk management control.
• Prior audit or risk management experience.
• Demonstrated experience in analyzing governance, policy, compliance, and risk management practices
• Ability to work and influence successfully within a matrixed environment and build effective business partnerships with all levels of team members
• Ability to facilitate and lead meetings to reach conclusions, identify tasks, record actions, and achieve results
• Strong communication skills and ability to articulate complex material to a diverse audience
• Demonstrated experience in use of Sharepoint, Jira and Agile Methodology