Under the supervision of the Global Protection and Security (GP&S) Associate Director of Intelligence, you will lead efforts to identify, investigate, and mitigate potential insider risks to protect Accenture’s assets, data, and reputation.
Key Responsibilities
- Draft analytic assessments addressing key developments with regard to insider threat. Brief these concepts to senior leaders.
- Conduct deep open-source research in support of investigations, leveraging a wide variety of datasets. Prepare detailed investigative summaries as appropriate and maintain rigorous case management details.
- Develop and refine detection use cases to improve the company’s ability to detect insider risk scenarios. Serve as a subject matter expert on insider threat methodologies and contribute to cross-functional security initiatives and incident response.
- Engage stakeholders across Accenture’s security organization as well as in information security, HR, legal, and recruiting to ensure a comprehensive and collaborative insider risk program.
- Leverage a network of private and public sector contacts to maintain situational awareness of insider risk trends.
- Participate in the development and delivery of insider threat awareness training.
- Help identify, evaluate, and implement insider risk-related technology solutions.
- Maintain strict confidentiality and adhere to legal and privacy requirements.
Job Requirements
- Must be able to work outside of business hours as needed due to critical events
Basic Qualifications
- Minimum 5 years of experience in counterintelligence and/or insider risk investigations and programs.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree, preferably in cybersecurity, computer science, criminal justice, international relations, intelligence studies, or a related field
- Familiarity with cyber security, insider threat analysis, law enforcement investigations, and intelligence analysis.
- Strong analytic and critical thinking skills with the ability to identify patterns, anomalies, and trends across large datasets.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills including the ability to prevent technical findings to non-technical audiences.
- Understanding of insider threat frameworks such as the NITTF Insider Threat Maturity Framework or CISA guidelines preferred.
- Experience conducting investigations involving sensitive/confidential material preferred.
- Insider threat-related certifications preferred, potentially including Certified Insider Threat Program Manager (CITPM) or Certified Insider Threat Analyst (CITA).
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We anticipate this job posting will be posted on 02/10/2026 and open for at least 5 days.
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