Senior Cybersecurity Risk & Resilience Consultant
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Senior cybersecurity risk consultant assessing technology, cloud, and third-party risks. Strengthening risk frameworks and advising stakeholders on resilience, compliance, and remediation.
Responsibilities:
- Assist with planning and delivering Risk & Resilience engagements in line with approved methodologies, project plans, and timelines
- Perform cybersecurity, technology, and enterprise risk assessments covering customer systems, platforms, digital services, technology initiatives, regulatory-driven assessments, NCA compliance activities, and ad hoc risk reviews
- Create, maintain, and improve risk registers throughout the full risk lifecycle
- Develop, track, and report on risk treatment plans, mitigation initiatives, and remediation activities
- Coordinate risk acceptance and exception management processes, including impact assessments, compensating controls, stakeholder engagement, approvals, and revalidation
- Assess technology changes, cloud deployments, digital transformation initiatives, third-party services, and strategic projects for emerging risks
- Deliver risk advisory services across infrastructure, cloud security, cybersecurity controls, secure software development, digital platforms, data protection, and emerging technologies
- Improve cybersecurity risk management frameworks, methodologies, standards, templates, and governance processes
- Contribute to cybersecurity risk strategies, roadmaps, risk appetite statements, and mitigation priorities
- Work with business, technology, cybersecurity, and project teams to provide actionable recommendations
- Track KRIs, risk trends, emerging threats, and overdue remediation actions
- Prepare and present risk reports, dashboards, management updates, and executive-level insights
- Promote a risk-aware culture through stakeholder engagement, awareness activities, workshops, and advisory sessions
- Ensure alignment with internal policies, regulatory requirements, and industry standards
Requirements:
- 8–10 total years of experience
- Proven experience in cybersecurity risk and resilience consulting
- Strong experience conducting cybersecurity and technology risk assessments across systems, digital services, cloud environments, and technology projects
- Hands-on experience managing risk registers and the full risk lifecycle, including assessment, treatment, acceptance, exceptions, and ongoing monitoring
- Experience developing and tracking risk treatment and remediation plans, including evaluation of control gaps and compensating controls
- Ability to advise on risks related to infrastructure, cloud security, third parties, secure software development, and data protection
- Experience developing or improving cybersecurity risk frameworks, methodologies, risk appetite statements, and key risk indicators (KRIs)
- Knowledge of NCA ECC, SAMA requirements, and ISO 27001
- Fluency in Arabic and English, written and spoken
Benefits:
- 2-year project engagement
- Global Consulting Bootcamp information provided
- MC Club information provided














