KPMG UK
Cyber Incident Response Manager
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Cyber Incident Response Manager
Cyber Response & Recovery Manager (109188)
Base Location: London/Manchester <br> Office Network: 20 offices nationwide <br> 🌐 View Office Locations
About KPMG Advisory
The KPMG Advisory function is a cornerstone of our business. We operate across the UK, delivering impactful work by delivering diligence and expertise to organisations of all sizes. As one of the world's largest and most respected consultancies, we’ve supported the UK through numerous challenges, sectors, and sectors like:
- Customer Experience and Digital
- Strategy
- Forensic
- Risk and Regulatory
- People and Talent
- Operational and Financial Transformation
By specialising across multiple disciplines, we embed ourselves within clients’ operations, leveraging sector expertise and tech-driven solutions to drive effective outcomes.
Why Join KPMG as a Cyber Response & Recovery Manager?
This role is within the Cyber Response Services (CRS) Team under Cyber Advisory, reporting directly to the Head of Cyber Response. KPMG is investing significantly in cybersecurity, supporting clients as they tackle evolving cyber threats and ensures rapid response to mitigate risks.
Key Responsibilities:
- Hands-on incident response in a high-performing Tier 1 responders environment (KPMG is one of just nine Tier 1 responders in the UK).
- Leading complex incident investigations, including ransomware and advanced network intrusions.
- Protégé and mentoring by senior leadership for career development into senior roles within KPMG.
- Regular engagement in a broad range of activities, including:
- tool development for internal cyber-response solutions
- runbook/playbook authoring and adaptation
- incident response maturity assessments
- table-tops (cyber-simulations)
- Improving/building clients’ response capabilities
- Active and continuous development of delivery processes:
- Operational efficiency
- Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
- Team learning
- Technical lab development and orchestrated workflows
Qualities KPMG Seeks:
✔ Passionate about cybersecurity challenges—escalations of urgency and client support. ✔ Technical and leadership mindset—able to balance incident execution with strategic delivery capability. ✔ Reputation-building candidate: advanced skills (forensics, incident response) to drive excellence. ✔ Willingness to stretch and travel flexibly—often short-notice deployments (2–3 weeks) as part of the role.
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Key Responsibilities
Incident Management & Forensics
- Case management: Lead multiple incident responses as a case manager.
- Digital forensic analysis (disk/volatile memory, network forensics, log data).
- Crisis management & threat intelligence: Maintain strong situational awareness and brief clients across ever-changing threats.
Delivery & Development
- Improve KPMG’s in-house tools, enhance internally developed cyber-response solutions
- Increase clients’ in-house cyber readiness, including evidentiary preservation.
- Advocate project rigor: scope & costing; financial management; engagement risk mitigation; delivery timelines.
- Close collaboration with clients on bid & proposal responses.
Leadership & Development
- Mentor or upskill junior team members as part of continuous growth.
- Optimise operational workflows— potential for long-term team & policy leadership roles.
The Person: Profile & Competencies
This role requires a strong blend of technical expertise and leadership:
Technical Competencies
- Incident management leadership: conduct unstructured responses (e.g., advanced network intrusions) while creating disciplined responses for scoping, containment, recovery, and forensic analysis.
- Broad threat landscape awareness across evolving cyber tactics.
- Proven experience in identifying, extracting, and preserving data in digital evidence scenarios (e.g., cloud, encrypted drives).
- Proofs of hands-on mastery:
- Critical Windows/AD, Linux & networking technologies.
- Advanced forensic tools: X-Ways, EnCase, FTK, IEF, Axiom, TZWorks, Cellebrite.
- Memory and OS-level security forensics (UNIX, Windows).
- Programming/automation skills (preference for Python but adaptable).
- Malware analysis (static & dynamic reverse engineering)
- Mobile forensics (iOS/Android enterprise support).
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Leadership & Collaboration
- Leadership & team facilitation: ability to lookup amongst colleagues as well as individuals at scale.
- Communication clarity: written & oral (tatched toward high-profile client interactions).
- Progress management: complex cases, purple-entry & rapid-response workloads.
Experience & Qualifications: Desired Skillset
Non-Negotiable Coefficients
- Suited for leadership: experience in handling incidents during high-pressure situations meaningfully.
- SC Clearance Acquisition: commitment to meeting UK SC vetting standards required.
- Non-specific award achievement: Degree (preferably Information Security/STEM or equivalent experience).
Recommended Certifications
✅ Industry Leadership: CISSP, CISM, or CISA preferred. ✅ Incident Response: CREST CCIM or GIAC GCIH Gold standard for tailored competencies. ✅ Digital Forensics: CREST CRIA, CCNIA, CCHIA, CCMRE recognised skill enhance relevance.
About Our Locations
We are happy to discuss employees’ flexible solutions across 20+ UK locations. Primarily recruiting for:
- London, Canary Wharf
- Manchester
Potential Policy:
- Office-based work
- Hybrid flexibility
- Set/reserved working hours
If flexible hours or part-time arrangements are requirements, we’re dedicated to discussion and facilig at every stage.
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