Manager - Cyber Consulting Services (CPX)

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Plan and deliver compliance framework design, regulatory gap assessments, policy and procedure development, and monitoring programs.
• Assess compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and international standards, including UAE financial-sector and data-protection rules.
• Design compliance governance structures, risk assessments, controls, and reporting mechanisms.
• Manage engagement scope, budgets, timelines, quality, and deliverables; escalate matters as needed.
• Serve as a primary client contact and communicate regulatory requirements and findings clearly.
• Lead, review, coach, and develop consultants, analysts, assessors, and GRC teams; allocate resources across engagements.
• Support proposals, scoping, pricing, follow-on work, and new offerings based on regulatory developments.
• Maintain assessor training, certification, calibration, quality review, and inter-rater reliability programs.

Skills and tools

• Required capabilities include regulatory compliance, data protection, engagement management, client relationship management, communication, team leadership, and coaching.
• GRC platforms such as ServiceNow GRC, RSA Archer, or equivalent are listed.
• Reporting and BI tools such as Power BI or Tableau, advanced Excel, and Microsoft 365 or equivalent are listed.

Qualifications and experience

• At least seven years of relevant compliance experience in consulting, advisory, regulatory, or in-house settings.
• At least two years managing compliance engagements and teams end to end.
• Demonstrated experience with compliance framework design and regulatory gap assessment.
• Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Information Security, Risk Management, or a related field.
• Master’s degree is preferred.
• National or sector-wide cyber governance, assessment, and compliance program experience is strongly preferred, including evidence validation, assessment governance, remediation tracking, and regulatory reporting.