Experienced Consultant, Cybersecurity
West Monroe · Chicago, United States +3 · 5mo ago
Are you ready to make an impact?
West Monroe is excited to hire a Experienced Consultant for our growing Cybersecurity Practice to focus on IT security advisory & solutions delivery across various industries!
Project work could include security controls audits/recommendations, risk advisory, compliance & privacy assessments, threat hunting, incident response planning, M&A/PE due diligence, and/or cybersecurity strategy & operations. This is a rewarding opportunity to join a high-growth, employee-centric firm and play a pivotal role in improving IT security posture across complex, enterprise client environments.
Responsibilities:
- Provide strategic cybersecurity advisory, due diligence, and consulting services for enterprise clients, ranging from policy definition to implementation, adoption, and enforcement
- Contribute to/deliver our CAPE program – Cybersecurity Advisory for Private Equity – to provide ongoing visibility into security practices, risks, and threats across a PE firm’s entire asset portfolio
- Leverage industry-accepted frameworks to lead current-state risk and controls review of existing security organizations— compliance adherence, processes, technologies— while developing implementation strategies and roadmaps to harden the environment
- Perform assessments and audits, identify risks, highlight vulnerabilities, and determine client’s ability to protect against attacks, detect active threats, and respond/recover from incidents
- Utilize Intellio™Hunt, our homegrown proprietary software, along with other tools to search for indicators of compromise across cloud and on-premise environments, providing insight into past and current incidents
- Promote thought leadership in emerging cybersecurity technologies and best practices through activities like blogs, white papers, attending industry events, and Center of Excellence contributions
- Act as coach and mentor to junior cybersecurity consultants
- Leverage AI tools to accelerate analysis, synthesize complex information, and support data-driven recommendations for clients, exercising sound judgment in evaluating outputs.
- Apply AI technologies (e.g., generative AI, automation tools, data models) to enhance insights, improve delivery efficiency, and elevate the quality of client outcomes.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in relevant field preferred, or equivalent experience required
- Consulting firm/industry experience preferred
- 1-2+ years of experience in Cybersecurity, Information Security, and/or Tech Consulting
- Background in any common cybersecurity domains – risk & compliance, privacy, strategy & operations, incident response, threat hunting, cloud security, application security, etc.
- Experience working on security risk & controls assessment projects, leveraging industry-accepted frameworks such as NIST CSF
- Understanding of high-level application, database, and network security principles for risk identification, qualification, mitigation, and analysis
- Comfortable conveying complex cybersecurity concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Proficient verbal, presentation/facilitation, and written communication skills
- Willingness to travel for client engagements (up to 30-50%)
- Hybrid role (2x per week in office)
- Must be eligible to work in US without sponsorship
- Experience integrating AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT) into day-to-day workflows to enhance productivity and insight generation, coupled with strong critical thinking to assess accuracy, mitigate bias, and ensure high-quality outputs.
Based on pay transparency guidelines, the salary range for this role can vary based on your proximity to one of our West Monroe offices (see table below). Information on our competitive total rewards package, including our bonus structure and benefits is here. Individual salaries are determined by evaluating a variety of factors including geography, experience, skills, education, and internal equity.
Employees (and their families) are covered by medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance. Employees are able to enroll in our company’s 401k plan, purchase shares from our employee stock ownership program and be eligible to receive annual bonuses. Employees will also receive unlimited flexible time off and ten paid holidays throughout the calendar year. Eligibility for ten weeks of paid parental leave will also be available upon hire date.
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