Cyber Advisor Lead

Title

Cyber Advisory Lead

2162

FTSE 100

Cyber Advisory Services Manager

London

37.5 hours per week, Monday – Friday.

Location:

London/Peterborough, with potential travel to divisional sites as required by advisory engagements (hybrid working arrangements in place).

£59,000 - £72,000

Bupa, Matched pension contributions.

The Group Cyber Security (GCS) team is responsible for managing cyber risk appropriately across the Group and has recently refreshed its cyber strategy, with a renewed focus on embedding cyber security as part of the culture and DNA. The Group operates a highly federated business model spanning 11 divisions and over 50 countries, and the cyber strategy has been designed to build materially improved security capabilities whilst working with a divisional focus.

It is an exciting time to join GCS. We are in a period of significant investment, with a multi‑year transformation programme underway to build new security capabilities  sets the Group cyber standard, measures compliance against it across all the businesses, and delivers a portfolio of centrally managed security services that divisions can rely on.

The Cyber Advisory Services function is the critical bridge between Group standards and divisional reality – translating GCS expertise into practical, context‑sensitive support that helps divisions understand, adopt, and embed the Group cyber standard in their specific environments.

Reporting to the Cyber Advisory Services Manager, the Cyber Advisory Lead is a senior individual contributor and the primary delivery resource within the advisory function. The role provides expert cyber security advice and guidance directly to the divisions, business units, and Group functions – operating as a trusted consultant who helps translate Group cyber standards into practical action on the ground.

The Cyber Advisory Lead is the person divisions call when they need a credible, knowledgeable partner to work through a cyber security challenge with them: someone who understands both the Group standard and the operational reality of divisional environments.

The role delivers a wide range of advisory services including technical standards interpretation and guidance, firewall rule base and security policy review, security input to non‑functional requirements for Group and divisional programmes, and advisory support to merger, acquisition, and divestiture activity. The Cyber Advisory Lead also plays a key role in managing and briefing flexible resources drawn from the GCS resourcing pool, ensuring they are deployed effectively and maintain the quality standards expected of the advisory function.

This is a hands‑on role that demands breadth, consulting confidence, and the ability to calibrate advice to the needs and maturity of each divisional audience.

• Act as the primary advisory point of contact for divisions and business units seeking guidance on the interpretation and application of Group cyber technical standards; provide clear, practical, and risk‑proportionate advice that helps divisions understand what compliance looks like in their specific environment.
• Translate Group technical standards into actionable divisional guidance; develop worked examples, implementation notes, and practical toolkits that make standards easier for divisional IT and security teams to adopt without losing the intent of the underlying requirement.
• Capture intelligence from advisory engagements – recurring questions, implementation blockers, divisional gaps – and feed it back to the Cyber Advisory Services Manager to inform improvements to standards, guidance materials, and the advisory service offering.

• Plan and conduct firewall rule base reviews and security policy assessments for Group and divisional environments; identify technical debt, overly permissive rules, obsolete entries, and configuration drift, and produce clear, risk‑prioritised findings reports with actionable remediation guidance.
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