Principal Consultant (Senior Manager) - Cyber

The role

You will design and deliver cyber resilience strategies and implement resilience frameworks for financial services organisations. The role involves strategic advisory and hands-on delivery to strengthen cyber risk management and meet regulatory expectations.

What you will do

• Deliver cyber and operational resilience transformation programmes aligned to regulatory frameworks.
• Assess and enhance cyber resilience capabilities including frameworks, operating models, controls, and governance.
• Support third-party and vendor risk assessments.
• Design and implement resilience governance, Important Business Services, Impact Tolerance, scenario testing, and reporting frameworks.
• Collaborate with technology teams to support cyber tooling, cloud security initiatives, and control enhancements.

Required qualifications

• Experience in cyber resilience, cyber risk, and operational resilience within financial services or management consulting.
• Strong understanding of cyber security frameworks such as NIST and ISO 27001, together with regulatory expectations including PRA and DORA.
• Practical experience delivering resilience testing, control assessments, remediation programmes, and technology-enabled transformation initiatives.
• Ability to translate complex regulatory requirements into practical business and technology solutions.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Nice to have

• Experience delivering cyber security assessments, cloud security initiatives, or security architecture programmes.
• Exposure to third-party risk management, supplier resilience, or operational resilience frameworks.
• Experience supporting or leading scenario testing, resilience reporting, and operational resilience embedding programmes.
• Familiarity with cyber tooling, security monitoring platforms, risk technologies, or AI-enabled cyber analytics.
• Previous consulting experience within financial services or the energy sector.

Benefits

• Discretionary bonus
• Competitive pension
• Health insurance
• Life insurance and critical illness cover
• Access to CareFirst, Unmind, Aviva consultations, and in-house first aiders
• Maternity, adoption, shared parental leave
• Paid leave for sickness, pregnancy loss, fertility treatment, menopause, and bereavement
• Eight complimentary backup care sessions for emergency childcare or elder care
• Five weeks of annual leave with the option to buy or sell holiday days
• Minimum 40 Hours of Training Annually
• Business Coach assigned from Day One
• Online GP services

About the company

Capco is a consulting firm with a collaborative, flat, and entrepreneurial culture. The company delivers transformation programmes for Tier 1 financial institutions.