Security Consulting Senior Manager – Financial Services

As a Senior Manager in Accenture’s Financial Services Security team, you will play a pivotal role in addressing critical security challenges faced by leading clients in the financial sector. Combining business acumen, technical expertise, and commercial insight, you will act as a trusted advisor, ensuring the successful delivery of security projects while driving new opportunities to create value for clients. You will lead collaboration between clients, delivery teams, and Accenture’s global network of security experts to ensure seamless and impactful outcomes.

Key Responsibilities:

Serve as the primary security representative for Accenture at the client, building trust-based relationships with senior stakeholders and positioning Accenture as a strategic partner.

Lead and oversee the delivery of security-related projects and programs, ensuring smooth execution and exceeding client expectations.

Drive commercial opportunities, leveraging industry knowledge and client relationships to expand Accenture’s footprint and deliver measurable value.

Collaborate across teams and geographies, working with security domain experts, account teams, and other Accenture practices to deliver end-to-end solutions.

Define, implement, and manage security strategies tailored to the client’s business needs, addressing broader challenges such as:

Operational resilience

Regulatory compliance

Digital transformation and sovereignty

Operational and cost optimization

M&A

Emerging technologies (e.g., GenAI, quantum computing)

Lead business development initiatives, including proposal creation, client presentations, and market visibility efforts to grow Accenture’s presence in the Financial Services sector.

Coach and mentor junior security professionals, fostering a culture of growth, collaboration, and excellence within the team.

What you will gain

Access to cutting-edge tools, AI technologies, and methodologies across Accenture’s Security offerings, including:

Cyber Strategy

Cyber Protect

Cyber Resilience

Cyber Physical

The opportunity to work in a data-driven environment, leveraging insights to deliver impactful projects and identify new growth opportunities.

A collaborative and flexible work environment that values work-life balance while fostering strong team culture through social events, learning opportunities, and community engagement.

Qualifications:

A degree in Security, Information Management, Computer Science, or a related technical field is preferred.

At least 10 years of experience in Security, with a strong focus on Financial Services.

Proven commercial experience, including identifying and driving business opportunities.

Strong network and active senior-level relationships within the Financial Services industry.

Extensive experience in project management and consultancy, with a focus on delivery excellence.

Expertise in areas such as Cyber Strategy, Cyber Governance and Data & AI Security .

Fluent in Dutch and English

A dynamic and commercially minded professional with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Work Environment

At Accenture, we believe in the power of collaboration, learning, and relationship-building. While some in-person time is required, we offer flexibility to support your work-life balance. As part of the Security team, you will enjoy a strong team culture, with opportunities to participate in social events such as ski trips, parties, and BBQs.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com

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