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Cyber Associate Director
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Associate Director – Cyber Consulting | London / Hybrid
Our client, a leading global Consulting organisation, is looking for candidates with deep technical cyber knowledge.
We are exclusively retained by a leading global professional services firm to hire into their M&A practice, a team that sits at the heart of major M&A activity, advising clients on cyber, technology, and digital risk across the full transaction lifecycle: pre-deal due diligence, post-deal reviews, remediation, and exit readiness. Part of a genuinely global digital M&A function across Benelux, DACH, Southern Europe, Middle East, growing US presence.
The team is built from cyber security, digital forensics, incident response, and military backgrounds, technical operators, not generalists, who can also hold a room with senior investors and translate risk into commercial, financial, and investment terms.
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Two live mandates, both Associate Director level:
1. Private Equity Focus
Advising PE sponsors and portfolio companies across the deal lifecycle, technical due diligence, hold-period risk monitoring, 100-day planning, carve-outs, integrations, exit readiness.
2. Critical Infrastructure Focus
Advising infrastructure investors across energy, aviation, data centres, and related sectors. Genuine OT/ICS experience is essential here, this is cyber risk in physical and operational infrastructure environments, not corporate IT.
What you'll need (genuine depth in one or two areas, not every box ticked):
- Strong grounding in core cyber domains, IAM, incident response, vulnerability management, network security, monitoring.
- Experience assessing controls against recognised frameworks (NIST CSF, ISO 27001, CIS Controls, IEC 62443 for infrastructure-focused candidates).
- Specialist depth in cloud security, AI security, network security, OT/ICS, or SDLC/DevSecOps.
- Knowledge of regulatory frameworks, GDPR, NIS2, DORA, FCA/PRA, Operational Resilience, EU Cyber Resilience Act.
- Experience in M&A, private equity, transaction advisory, portfolio company, or infrastructure investment environments.
- Ability to translate technical and financial risk into commercial terms for senior investors, this matters as much as the technical depth.
- Confidence pitching, proposing, and building client relationships, not just delivering findings.
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