EY Manager - Cybersecurity Incident Response & Awareness Riyadh 

Saudi Arabia, Riyadh Region, Riyadh 

357386286

As a Manager, you’ll build valued relationships with external clients and internal peers and develop a portfolio of projects by focusing on high value opportunities. You’ll lead presentations and proposals for complex projects or elements of highly complex projects and provide subject matter insight to bids and proposals. Drawing on your skills and experience, you’ll create innovative commercial insights for clients, adapt methods and practices to fit operational team and cultural needs, and contribute to thought leadership.As an Incident Response and Awareness Manager, you will lead and grow a team responsible for strengthening clients’ cybersecurity posture through cyber incident response, security awareness, and digital forensics services. You will provide strategic advisory services in areas such as regulatory compliance, cybersecurity governance, threat detection, digital trust, and risk management.

Oversee client engagements at an executive level, working with senior stakeholders to assess and improve readiness for cyber incidents, respond to security breaches, and conduct digital forensic investigations. Your leadership will help organizations reduce risks, meet compliance requirements, and maintain resilience against evolving cyber threats.

Specifically, you will need to:

• Lead engagements related to cyber incident response, including readiness assessments, playbook development, tabletop exercises, and cyber crisis simulations.
• Evaluate existing security incident detection and escalation capabilities and recommend improvements.
• Conduct end-to-end digital forensic investigations in response to cyber incidents, data breaches, insider threats, or regulatory inquiries.
• Preserve chain-of-custody and maintain forensic integrity in accordance with legal and regulatory standards.
• Use forensic tools to extract, analyze, and correlate digital evidence, and prepare clear and defensible investigative reports and present forensic findings to legal, compliance, or executive stakeholders.

To qualify for the role, you must have

• Bsc. computer science or information technology or cyber security
• Certificates such as CISA, CISM, and CISSP, ISO 27001 is a plus
• Minimum of 10 years of hands-on experience in the digital forensics and incident response domain.
• Broad industry expertise and network, and with an establishes experience with a top tier firm
• Lead a team of professionals to combine diverse cross-border experience with local knowledge across a broad spectrum of industries
• Work effectively as a member of a worldwide network of professional advisors, sharing responsibility, providing support, maintaining communication, and updating senior team members on progress
• Strong understanding of expectations of regulators and international organizations such as NCA, ISO, and NIST.

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Digital forensics
• Threat intel
• Incident response
• Fluent Arabic/English communication skills
• Working experience in KSA
• Prior experience in consulting firm

We offer a competitive compensation package where you’ll be rewarded based on performance and recognized for the value you bring to our business. Plus, we offer:

• Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

If you can demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

EY exists to build a better working world, helping to create long-term value for clients, people and society and build trust in the capital markets.