IT Security Consultant

Job Title: IT Security Consultant

Location: Leeds

Competitive Salary & Benefits

About the role

The functional role of the security consultant is to provide internal corporate security consulting services, develop and enhance policy architecture and processes, assess business security risks, recommend security controls that enable the business to be in control of risks, promote security awareness and strengthen relationships with business units by creating value for business stake holders. This is a senior role and requires a wide range of skills and experience in developing and managing security solutions.

About Capita | Customer Management

Capita Customer Management is part of Capita plc, the UK’s leading provider of business process management and integrated professional support service solutions, with 68,000 staff across the UK, Europe, South Africa and India.

We provide first-class customer services for other organisations and companies by phone, email, web and more. Our contact centres are home to thousands of customer service advisors, sales colleagues, collections agents and back office processing staff. With more than 14,500 colleagues across 19 contact centres in the UK, India, Poland and South Africa, we manage customers for a range of big name clients like O2, Volkswagen Group, British Gas, RSPCA and William Hill.

What you will do:

Recommend and implement business security strategies, architectures and infrastructures that align with the business strategies of the client
Recommend business security policies and standards
Develop and implement business security awareness programs
Develop business security management processes and methodologies
Work with business units to assess the impact of strategic business directions on information security threats, vulnerabilities and risks
Provide security subject matter expertise on projects undertaken by business units, application development and technology teams
Integrate business security strategies with overall business and IT strategies
Provide business security governance leadership and advice
Act as a management advisor on all business security policy, security strategy and risk management issues
Act as a security subject matter expert in pre-sales activities and draft the security section in bid proposals
Audit and report on security compliance within the business
Manage all work assignments on a project basis, covering the project full life cycle starting with initial client contact and agreeing a terms of reference through project delivery and implementation.

Your experience will include:

Defines, agrees, and documents terms of reference (TOR) for the project assignment, accurately reflecting the client’s requirements.
Takes the lead in defining and influencing the appropriate level of security to be implemented, based on business requirements and security best practice using a risk management driven approach working with the management in CCM and the client organisation.
Ensures that the project deliverables are high quality, delivered on time, within budget, and according to assignment TOR
Ensures that any additional work out of scope, requested by the client, is properly managed, detailed and agreed.
Takes on the role of security manager and is responsible for ensuring that the business is in control of security risks, complies with contractual security requirements and follows security best practice.
Ensures that proper security processes covering IT, business processes, business operations, physical security, security management and security policies and procedures are implemented and managed within the business.
These include; security change control, security incident response, security risk assessment, security auditing, security compliance, security monitoring, security testing, security staff management and physical security.
Contributes subject matter expertise to bids, assessing bid for security requirements, ensuring that relevant security risks are identified and addressed in the proposed solution.
Provides an Information Assurance capability for the Bids Technical Design Authority (TDA) solution; in line with client identified Information Security Standards, Capita Group Policies, and security best practice guidelines.
Prepares or contributes to the security plan.What’s in it for you?

At Capita, training and development aren’t optional extras: they’re how we do our job. We will motivate you to perform at your peak, recognising your achievements and rewarding them appropriately. As well as a generous basic salary we also give you 23 day’s holiday, 10% car allowance, company pension scheme and access to voluntary benefit options including; child care vouchers, share save scheme, life assurance, holiday buy and many more designed to suit your own personal lifestyle. All of this, in a professional but fun environment.

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