Assistant Manager Risk Consultant
Job description / Role
Employment: Full Time
Assistant manager u2013 digital risk
From small businesses to some of the worldu2019s best-known brands, our tailored services help build trust and confidence through transparency, clarity, and consistency for our clients across the MENA region. Our MENA clients look to us for advice and services they can trust every time.You will use your professional skills and experience to make it happen by supporting our MENA-based EY member firms to serve clients in the MENA region across a broad range of industries and responsibilities.
Within the MENA region, we are actively engaged with all sectors of the economy and actively supporting the vision of national leaderships, especially in the GCC countries. We are dedicated to helping our clients in all sectors anticipate the uncertainty they face in doing their business and work closely with them to help effectively manage the risk.Technology is a major component underpinning the need to serve increasing demands of our MENA clients in their sophisticated technology environments.
As organizations look to leverage the advantage technology offers, weu2019ll work with you to develop the consultancy and analytical skills that youu2019ll need in todayu2019s environment. Working on projects that cross borders and sectors, the experiences you gain here will be more valuable than anywhere else.
The opportunity
EY is recruiting for an assistant manager to join our digital risk team at various offices across MENA. You will be responsible to serve our clients as part of our teams across MENA offices. This position brings significant travel opportunities since EY operates a regional model with all consultants operating as one team across the region.
Your key responsibilities
As assistant manager you will be required to work effectively as a team member, draw on your knowledge and experience to solve complex issues and support the MENA local partner(s) and senior executives, and build relationships with MENA internal clients and peers.
As an assistant manager, everything you will be involved in comes down to providing excellent customer service and helping our teams do the same. Whether it is working with multiple client teams, advising the clients on IT risk related matters, or assisting executives with business development activities across various sectors, you will build strong relationships and become a trusted advisor to your MENA clients.
You will participate in MENA engagements, working effectively as a team member, providing support, maintaining communication and updating senior team members on progress. You will assist in client service delivery, participate in all assigned tasks, and assist in preparing reports that will be delivered to clients and other parties.
Skills and attributes for success
Proactivity, accountability, and results-driven people will flourish in this environment. Dealing with competing priorities, understanding how to manage resources and communicating effectively are key skills. This will have a huge impact on those around you and help promote a positive work ethic.
To qualify for the role, you must have:
- Bacheloru2019s or masteru2019s degree in computer science, information systems or a related discipline. Alternatively, a degree in business, accounting, finance, with additional IT qualifications.
- 5+ years of relevant experience working as an IT risk consultant or an IT auditor for a public accounting firm, professional services firm, technology company, telecom company or a financial services company, or comparable experience as an IT/IS consultant.
- Relevant experience areas include, but are not limited to, IT risk assessment and management, digital trust, mobile technology assessments, emerging technologies (robotics, IoT, cloud and blockchain), ERP control validations (SAP, Oracle, MS Dynamics), systems and networking technologies, IT/business process and internal control assessments, internal audit engagements, external audit integration, application of data analytics, and/or third-party reporting.
- Lead and perform privacy impact assessments (PIAs), data protection impact assessments (DPIAs), legitimate interest assessments (LIAs), and transfer impact assessments (TIAs).
- Maintain and update the records of processing activities (RoPA) in compliance with GDPR and other data protection laws.
- Ensure cross-border data transfers comply with legal mechanisms (e.g., SCCs, BCRs, adequacy decisions).
- Develop, implement, and maintain comprehensive privacy and cybersecurity programs aligned with international standards including ISO 27001, ISO 27701, and NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 (CSF).
- Ensure compliance with regional regulations such as Dubai Information Security Regulation (Dubai ISR) and UAE Information Assurance Requirements (UAE IAR), supporting both privacy and cybersecurity mandates.
- Work with the team to design, implement, manage, and access data loss prevention (DLP) technologies and policies across endpoints, cloud, and email systems.
- Collaborate on securing personal and sensitive data through encryption, access control, and secure storage practices.
- Collaborate with Security Operations Center (SOC) for real-time investigation of data exfiltration attempts, unauthorized access to sensitive folders or file shares, and lateral movement involving high-value data.
- Drive the implementation and validation of business continuity management (BCM) and incident response (IR) plans specifically addressing privacy and security requirements.
Company Industry: IT, Software & Internet Services
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