CBIZ Risk & Advisory Services offers consulting, outsourcing, and co-sourcing services to public and private companies of all sizes by providing national caliber expertise combined with highly personalized service. As part of CBIZ, (NYSE: CBZ), one of the top financial services providers in the country, CBIZ Risk & Advisory Services provides internal audit, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, cybersecurity, supply chain management, ESG and risk consulting services to leading businesses across North America.

With over 120 offices and nearly 7,000 associates throughout the U.S. CBIZ (NYSE: CBZ) delivers top-level financial and employee business services to organizations of all sizes, as well as individual clients, by providing national-caliber expertise combined with highly personalized service delivered at the local level.

CBIZ is honored to be the recipient of several national recognitions for 2023:

• Best and Brightest Companies to Work for in the Nation
• Top Workplaces USA
• Top Workplaces - Financial Services Industry
• Best and Brightest Companies in Wellness
• Great Place to Work Certification

Together, CBIZ and Mayer Hoffman McCann P.C. (MHM) are ranked as one of the top providers of accounting services in the United States. MHM is an independent CPA firm that provides audit, review and attest services, while CBIZ provides business consulting, tax and financial services.

As an Associate Consultant, you will be an influential member of our Cybersecurity consulting practice and have the opportunity to work on a range of cybersecurity advisory projects.

As a cybersecurity professional, you will develop superior relationships with the leadership and personnel of our client organizations to directly impact their success by delivering high quality services. Working closely with some of the most entrepreneurial companies in the nation, you'll engage with fast-growing, innovative organizations that form the backbone of business across America. You will have the opportunity to develop a deep understanding of your client's business, goals and needs, and increase your functional expertise.

CBIZ has a growing Risk and Advisory Services National Cybersecurity Practice. CBIZ is looking for consultants that want to help our clients get better by reducing risk. We do this through a multitude of engagements, ranging from hands-on implementation assistance to cybersecurity reviews, risk assessments, audits, and security assessments. CBIZ utilizes industry standard frameworks and other best in class technologies to assess our clients' environments. (e.g., NIST CSF, ISO 27001, CMMC, HIPAA, CIS CSC)

The Associate Consultant will work in a collaborative fashion with our clients to help them manage Information Security & compliance risks as well as prove the same to management and customers. They will also contribute to client projects and project teams to provide professional services to the firm's clients. Duties will include involvement in a variety of cybersecurity projects such as infrastructure, cloud and security tools analysis, architectural design, risk management. Activities will include documentation and analysis of a client's operational and technical environments, development of security policies and procedures, onsite and remote reviews of technology architecture and communicating findings and recommendations to clients in both writing and verbally.

Essential Functions and Primary Duties

• Perform security assessment and compliance activities using NIST, CSC, ISO and other related frameworks.
• Create workpapers and reports accurately portraying client evidence.
• Engage with client projects for a variety of clients and industries, consistently delivering quality client services within expected timeframes and on budget.
• Work with sense of urgency and the ability to shift focus as needed throughout the day.
• Identify, evaluate, and effectively communicate significant exposures to security risks, breakdowns in controls, and other related concerns.
• Communicate in writing findings to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Successfully balance multiple projects at once, regularly communicating status and issues to CBIZ management and Managing Directors.
• Support the research of emerging technology, requisite security requirements, emerging threats, and develop a way-forward to meet organizational goals.
• Research security standards, security systems, and authentication protocols, and keep abreast with the latest trends in the cybersecurity industry.
• Understand effective information technology processes, including best practices and internal control approaches.
• Interact with and effectively communicate with clients or other third parties as necessary.
• Manage conflict with clients and/or team members in a professional, confident manner.
• Develop relationships with team members across the firm to better serve client needs.
• Assist the firm through participating in training, company-wide projects, and human resource initiatives.
• Accurately represent and record project time and expenses.
• Meet/exceed defined contribution goals for services you will deliver.
• The ability to "work from anywhere" as this role is remote/virtual in nature.
• Travel is estimated to be less than 20-25%.

Preferred Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years of hands-on experience in a technology or cybersecurity-based industry.
• A bachelor's degree in a technology or business field or equivalent work experience.
• Experience in a client-facing role.
• A relevant professional certification such as Security+, CISSP, CISA, CISM, Microsoft MCSE, Azure, ISO 27001 Auditor and/or Lead Implementer.
• Knowledge of ISO 27001/2 as much of our consulting and collaboration is around ISO 27001.
• Familiar with technologies such as: Active Directory, Federation, Multifactor Authentication, SSO, IDS, IPS, Host Based Firewalls, WAF (Web Application Firewall), DNS, DHCP, HTTPS/TLS, SSH, SMTP, Syslog, Key Management, PKI, Tokens, SAML, OAUTH.
• Strong skills in Microsoft Office applications.
• Possess integrity, principles, and work ethic.
• Strong analytical, interpersonal, and verbal/written communication skills.
• Ability to read, write, and speak fluent English.
• Applicants must be able to pass a background check.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Must be able to work in a team environment.
• Presentation skills mandatory
• Proficient use of applicable technology.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate verbally and in writing throughout all levels of organization, both internally and externally.
• Must be able to travel based on client and business needs

#LI-HP1 #LI-Hybrid #CBIZAdvisory