GRC, Data Privacy & Technical Cybersecurity SME - Senior Manager

Job Description

Job Description

Cybersecurity: GRC, Data Privacy & Technical Cybersecurity - Senior Manager

CFGI is a leading advisory firm that partners with private equity sponsors, portfolio companies, and public companies to solve complex challenges across finance, technology, compliance, and business transformation. Our Cybersecurity practice is rapidly growing and supports clients through cybersecurity governance, risk and compliance (GRC), data privacy, regulatory readiness, technical risk assessments, and operational resilience programs.

Role Overview CFGI is seeking a Cybersecurity GRC, Data Privacy & Technical Cybersecurity Subject Matter Expert to lead and deliver strategic advisory engagements that strengthen clients’ security governance, risk management, compliance posture, privacy programs, and technical security capabilities. This role combines hands-on delivery, executive communication, and practice leadership. The successful candidate will translate technical security risks into business impact, assess whether controls are appropriately designed and implemented, and partner with CISOs, CIOs, CFOs, General Counsel/Privacy Counsel, Risk Leaders, technology teams, and PE deal teams to drive pragmatic, measurable outcomes.

The ideal candidate brings deep GRC and privacy expertise together with sufficient technical depth to challenge control owners, evaluate cybersecurity architectures and operations, validate evidence, and connect technical findings to regulatory, risk, and business requirements.

• Lead end-to-end GRC and privacy engagements, including scoping, planning, execution, quality review, and executive reporting.
• Design and operationalize cybersecurity governance models, including policies, standards, risk appetite, committees, reporting, KPIs, and KRIs.
• Build and mature enterprise risk programs, including risk assessments, risk registers, control libraries, control rationalization, and control testing approaches.
• Develop and implement security policies, standards, and procedures aligned to NIST CSF, NIST SP 800-53, ISO 27001/27002, CIS Controls, SOC 2, CMMC, and FedRAMP.
• Support regulatory readiness and compliance initiatives, including SEC cyber disclosure support, NYDFS 500, GDPR/UK GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, HIPAA, PCI DSS, SOX ITGC, CMMC, and FedRAMP alignment where applicable.
• Stand up or enhance privacy programs, including data mapping and inventories, DPIAs/PIAs, DSAR processes, retention, consent management, third-party privacy risk, and privacy by design.
• Perform vendor and third-party risk assessments and implement scalable TPRM operating models.

• Assess technical security controls across cloud, network, endpoint, identity, application, data, and security operations environments, and connect control gaps to business and regulatory risk.
• Evaluate security architecture and configuration evidence for common platforms and services, including Microsoft Azure, AWS, Microsoft 365, identity providers, firewalls, EDR/XDR, SIEM, vulnerability management, backup, and data protection technologies.
• Review identity and access management capabilities, including privileged access, multifactor authentication, joiner-mover-leaver processes, access reviews, service accounts, and segregation of duties.
• Assess vulnerability and patch management processes, interpret scan results, validate remediation prioritization, and evaluate exposure management practices.
• Evaluate logging, monitoring, detection, and incident response capabilities, including alert coverage, escalation workflows, playbooks, tabletop exercises, and lessons learned.
• Assess secure configuration, network segmentation, encryption, key management, backup and recovery, data loss prevention, and resilience controls.
• Partner with technical teams to validate control implementation through interviews, documentation, configuration samples, screenshots, reports, tickets, and other evidence. The role is not expected to serve as a full-time engineer but must be able to credibly challenge technical assumptions and distinguish documented controls from operating controls.
• Support cyber due diligence, post-acquisition integration, carve-outs, and rapid maturity uplift by identifying material technical risks and developing prioritized remediation roadmaps.

• Translate complex technical, regulatory, and privacy requirements into clear,…