Senior Manager, Pre-Close Security

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The Senior Manager, Information Security Risk Management (ISRM) Acquisitions & Divestitures (A&D) Cybersecurity, Pre-Close, reports directly to the Director, ISRM A&D Cybersecurity, Pre-Close and serves as a hands‑on Deal Lead for cybersecurity due diligence across mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, licensing arrangements, minority investments, and strategic partnerships.

This role is responsible for leading deal‑level cybersecurity assessments, translating diligence evidence into clear risk insights, identifying material technical and regulatory concerns, and supporting risk‑informed transaction decisions before close. The Senior Manager brings strong technical depth across enterprise cybersecurity and technology domains and is expected to evaluate target‑state environments, challenge assumptions, troubleshoot complex issues, and define practical mitigation recommendations.

The Senior Manager partners with Corporate Development, Legal, Privacy, Finance, Technology Services, ISRM capability and policy owners, business technology leaders, external advisors, and transaction teams to ensure cybersecurity risks, enterprise requirements, and Day 1 security priorities are understood, documented, escalated, and transitioned to post‑close execution teams.

• Deal Lead for Pre-Close Cybersecurity Due Diligence: Serve as the primary ISRM A&D cybersecurity lead for assigned transactions, coordinating diligence activities, managing assessment timelines, tracking evidence needs, and ensuring findings are clearly documented for deal teams and leadership.

• Technical Risk Assessment & Analysis: Evaluate target environments across security architecture, identity, network, endpoint, cloud, application security, data protection, vulnerability management, incident response, third‑party risk, and cyber resilience to identify material risks, control gaps, remediation needs, and integration or separation implications.

• Diligence Execution & Evidence Review: Lead cybersecurity questionnaire review, management meeting preparation, outside‑in assessment coordination, documentation analysis, follow‑up inquiries, advisor engagement, and consolidation of evidence into practical risk conclusions.

• Transaction Risk…