Secure MA&D Principal

Principal, Secure MA&D

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The Principal, Secure MA&D leads pre-close cybersecurity due diligence for mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and other strategic transactions. This role identifies cyber risks, estimates remediation and integration costs, manages third-party diligence partners, transfers findings to security capability owners, and supports Day-1 readiness planning.

• Lead pre-close cybersecurity due diligence for assigned MA&D transactions.
• Review target-company security posture, documentation, interviews, and assessment results.
• Identify key cyber risks, control gaps, compliance concerns, and Day 1 readiness issues.
• Translate technical findings into clear business, operational, and financial impacts.
• Manage third-party cybersecurity diligence providers, including scope, timelines, deliverables, and quality of findings.
• Develop preliminary cost estimates for remediation, integration, tooling, licensing, labor, and ongoing run support.
• Partner with Finance, Corporate Development, Legal, IT, and Information Security teams to validate risks, assumptions, and costs.
• Transfer diligence findings, risks, and open items to security capability owners before close.
• Support Day 1 readiness planning by identifying minimum required controls, dependencies, and immediate post-close actions.
• Maintain clear documentation of risks, decisions, assumptions, action items, and handoffs.
• Improve Secure MA&D diligence templates, playbooks, cost models, and reporting materials.

• Bachelor's degree required; relevant certifications PMP (or equivalent formal project management certification) and CRISC strongly preferred
• Additional Certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CISA, or CCSP are a plus.
• 8–10+ years of experience in cybersecurity, information risk, security consulting, M&A due diligence, or security program leadership.
• Experience leading cybersecurity assessments, risk reviews, diligence activities, or integration planning.
• Strong understanding of core security domains, including IAM, endpoint security, vulnerability management, cloud security, data protection, security operations, GRC, and third-party risk.
• Ability to explain cyber risks in business terms and connect findings to cost, timing, compliance, and operational impact.
• Experience developing high-level remediation, integration, and run-cost estimates.
• Strong vendor-management and stakeholder-management skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including executive-level summaries and decision materials.
• Ability to manage multiple confidential transactions and competing priorities.
• Ability to travel as needed (5% - 15%)