Assessments & Exercises Vice President - Offensive Security

Contribute to leading-edge security and resilience efforts, advancing protective strategies and propelling continuous improvement.

As an Assessments & Exercises Vice President in the Cyber and Tech Controls line of business, you will contribute significantly to enhancing the firm's cybersecurity posture by using industry-standard assessment methodologies and techniques to proactively identify risks and vulnerabilities in people, processes, and technology. Design and deploy risk-driven tests and simulations (or manage a highly-skilled team that does) and inform analysis to clearly outline root-causes. In this role, you will evaluate preventative controls, incident response processes, and detection capabilities, and advise cross-functional teams on security strategy and risk management.

Job responsibilities

• Design and execute testing and simulations – such as penetration tests, adversary emulation assessments, collaborative technical controls assessments, and cyber exercises, and contribute to the development and refinement of assessment methodologies, tools, and frameworks to ensure alignment with the firm’s strategy and compliance with regulatory requirements
• Evaluate controls for effectiveness and impact on operational risk, as well as opportunities to automate control evaluation
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to develop comprehensive assessment reports – including detailed findings, risk assessments, and remediation recommendations – making data-driven decisions that encourage continuous improvement
• Utilize threat intelligence and security research to stay informed about emerging threats, vulnerabilities, industry best practices, and regulations. Apply this knowledge to enhance the firm's assessment strategy and risk management. Engage with peers and industry groups that share threat intelligence analytics

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills