
Senior Consultant, PCI QSA
Coalfire
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $86,000 - $148,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Lead audits/assessments full cycle including audit plan preparation, review of documentation and evidence, evaluation of procedures, and client interviews.
- Prepare, review and approve assessment reports.
- Manage priorities, tasks and hours on projects in conjunction with the project manager to achieve delivery utilization targets.
- Manage quality throughout the entirety of the engagement, while providing direct coaching and revisions to work products.
- Ensure quality products and services are delivered on time.
- Escalate client and project issues to management in a timely manner to inform and engage the necessary resources to address the issue.
- Provide mentorship to team members in areas of audit, assessment, technical review and writing.
- Interface with clients through entire engagement, interacting will all levels of client organizations. Establish and maintain positive collaborative relationships with clients and stakeholders.
- Continuous professional development in maintaining industry specific certifications. Maintains strong depth of knowledge in the practice area.
- Collaborate with project managers, quality management, sales and other delivery team members to drive customer satisfaction and meet project deliverables.
- Establish account relationships and identifies upsell and cross sell opportunities and escalates to sales.
- Travel 25-50%
- Ability to be successful when working remotely.
Requirements
- Current PCI-QSA certification preferred (will consider former QSA)
- One of the following Information Security certifications required: CISSP, CISM or ISO 27001 Lead Implementer.
- One of the following Audit certifications required: CISA, GSNA, CIA, IRCA ISMS Auditor or higher, or ISO 27001 Lead Auditor.
- Familiarity with other common IT Audit frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP, HITRUST, etc.)
- Bachelor's degree (four-year college or university) or equivalent combination of education and work experience.
- Strong knowledge of the PCI-DSS security standards.
- 5+ years of experience in an IT Security Audit and/or Compliance role.
- Experience preparing and presenting Tier 1 and Tier 2 Reports on Compliance (ROCs).
- Experience performing IT security risk assessments and gap analysis.
- Strong excel skills with ability to develop worksheets with complex formulas.
- Experience interacting with management in a consultative manner.
- Strong IT understanding with respect to networks, servers, workstations, and applications.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills. Ability to facilitate meetings of small or large groups.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills including the ability to explain technical matters to a non-technical audience.
- Strong Consulting skills with executive leadership and technical professionals; ability to advise and challenge the status quo while building strong relationships.
- Positive attitude.
- Diplomatic and broad minded.
- Ability to build high-trust relationship and credibility quickly both internally and externally.
- Strong attention to detail, strong problem solving, decision-making, organizational and analytical skills.
- Ability to prioritize and manage multiple initiatives/projects.
- Ability to be self-driven and have strong independent initiative.
Benefits
- paid parental leave
- flexible time off
- certification and training reimbursement
- digital mental health and wellbeing support membership
- comprehensive insurance options
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
IT Security AuditComplianceRisk assessmentsGap analysisExcelTechnical reviewAssessment reportsAudit plan preparationDocumentation reviewClient interviews
Soft Skills
CommunicationPresentationConsultingMentorshipRelationship buildingProblem solvingDecision-makingOrganizational skillsAttention to detailSelf-driven
Certifications
PCI-QSACISSPCISMISO 27001 Lead ImplementerCISAGSNACIAIRCA ISMS AuditorISO 27001 Lead Auditor