Cybersecurity CMMC Manager

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Cherry Bekaert delivers innovative advisory, assurance and tax services to our clients. At Cherry Bekaert we create shared success through teamwork, energy, and expertise. We approach today’s toughest business challenges with a client-first mindset, working together to create exceptional value. We are all committed to making a difference for our people, our clients, our community, and our professions. To meet this commitment, Cherry Bekaert will provide you with the space to pursue growth and development opportunities that will guide and support you at each stage of your personal and professional journey.

In support of our growing Information Assurance & Cybersecurity Solutions (), we have an excellent opportunity for candidates with significant CMMC or FedRAMP experience working in a professional services firm or within corporate GRC, IT, Internal Audit, Cybersecurity, or Compliance teams to join us as a Manager with the flexibility to sit in multiple offices throughout our footprint or possibly remote for the right resource consistent with delivery needs.

In addition to being an early leader in building our CMMC practice, you will be involved in a variety of other engagements that IA/Cyber team provides, and you will be working significantly across a variety of consulting, governance, readiness assessments, risk management and remediation efforts, and attestation/certifications services for clients with the following areas of focus:

• CMMC

• FedRAMP, State
  
  RAMP, TXRAMP

• NIST (NIST 800-171, NIST 800-53)

If you are an active learner with a growth mindset, good at managing clients and projects, want to be part of a growing team, use your existing knowledge sets and teach others, let’s have a conversation.

Managers support the delivery of consulting and attestation services. As a Manager you will help understand client needs, perform gap assessments, identify and document control environments, identify design or operating effectiveness gaps, vulnerabilities, audit exceptions, develop recommendations to management, and assist management with policy Doc Dev and controls implementations. Skill sets desired include the ability to:

• Manage project resourcing, including working with Partners, Directors, Senior Managers, and other Managers on project resourcing

• Lead and drive internal growth efforts by building relationships across the firm, as well as participate in sales calls.

• Being the lead project manager regarding project delivery, including quality control and oversight supervision, assisting with adequate planning, execution, and direction to manage to budget and to quality

• Understanding and communicating project status updates to clients and to internal stakeholders on engagement financials, client satisfaction, etc.

• Identify areas to improve project delivery (process improvement)

• Regarding attestation and certification services delivery, support the development of strong work papers in conformance with the firm’s methodology/standards and participation in report drafting

• Maintain a strong client focus by understanding the client’s business needs while developing productive working relationships with client personnel to accomplish project objectives

• Multi-task across multiple clients and compliance standards, while still maintaining appropriate attention to detail

• Engage with our marketing and sales efforts to build marketing media, perform presentations, etc.

• Work with (lead, teach, support, and communicate) other folks in our practice on CMMC and other standards, as well as offshore resources to deliver projects where practical and where available

• Utilize your experiences to teach others in the practice on new approaches, execution strategies, compliance standards, etc.

• Bachelor’s Degree, preferably in Information Security, Information Systems, Computer Science, Cybersecurity or Accounting

• Relevant professional certification (CMMC CCA or passed CCA pending)

• Minimum 4+ years of experience with controls assessments or consulting…