Senior Cyber Analyst (Financial Services) - #2172585

Senior Cyber Analyst (Financial Services)

Hybrid | Sheffield or Birmingham

Up to £500 per day

6-Month Contract

Inside IR35

Overview

We are seeking an experienced Senior Cyber Analyst to support a large-scale financial services environment, focusing on cyber governance, risk management, control execution, compliance, and stakeholder engagement.

This role will play a key part in ensuring effective cyber risk oversight, maintaining regulatory compliance, driving issue remediation activities, and supporting the ongoing enhancement of security controls across the organisation.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the execution and monitoring of cyber security governance, risk, and control activities.
• Coordinate and track security issues, remediation plans, and risk mitigation activities across multiple stakeholders.
• Ensure security controls are operating effectively and aligned with internal policies and regulatory requirements.
• Produce clear and concise reporting on cyber risk, controls, compliance, and remediation progress for senior stakeholders.
• Partner with technology, risk, compliance, and business teams to maintain a strong control environment.
• Facilitate governance forums, risk reviews, and stakeholder meetings, ensuring actions and decisions are effectively managed.
• Support audit, regulatory, and compliance activities, including evidence gathering and issue resolution.
• Identify opportunities to improve processes, controls, and cyber governance practices.
• Coordinate cyber risk assessments and support ongoing risk management activities.
• Escalate key risks, issues, and control weaknesses to appropriate stakeholders.

Required Experience

• Proven experience in a Cyber Security, Cyber Governance, Security Risk, or Cyber Compliance role.
• Strong understanding of cyber risk management, security controls, governance frameworks, and compliance processes.
• Experience managing and tracking security risks, issues, actions, and remediation activities.
• Ability to engage effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong reporting, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience working within large, complex enterprise environments.
• Knowledge of regulatory and compliance requirements within highly regulated industries.
• Experience operating within Agile or hybrid delivery environments.

Preferred Experience

• Previous experience within Financial Services, Banking, or Insurance environments.
• Exposure to cyber governance, operational risk, audit, or regulatory programmes.
• Familiarity with industry frameworks such as NIST, ISO 27001, COBIT, or CIS Controls.
• Experience supporting governance committees, risk forums, or senior leadership reporting.

If you are interested please apply or send your CV to [email protected]