Intelance
11 - 50 employees
Founded 2017
🏢 Enterprise
🔒 Cybersecurity
🤖 Artificial Intelligence
Enterprise • Cybersecurity • Artificial Intelligence
Intelance is a UK-based technology and compliance consultancy that provides on-demand enterprise architecture, cybersecurity compliance, and AI strategy services. Since 2019 it has helped organisations of all sizes design scalable enterprise architectures, achieve certifications such as Cyber Essentials and ISO 27001, and apply AI to optimise operations like supply chains. Intelance positions itself as a partner for digital transformation, offering enterprise architects, cybersecurity specialists, and AI practitioners to support audit-readiness and technology-driven business value.
Principal Cyber Assurance Advisor, Senior Associate
🔥 11 minutes ago
🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote
💵 £650 - £900 / year
⏱ Part Time
🟠 Senior
🔒 Insurance
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Intelance
11 - 50 employees
Founded 2017
🏢 Enterprise
🔒 Cybersecurity
🤖 Artificial Intelligence
Enterprise • Cybersecurity • Artificial Intelligence
Intelance is a UK-based technology and compliance consultancy that provides on-demand enterprise architecture, cybersecurity compliance, and AI strategy services. Since 2019 it has helped organisations of all sizes design scalable enterprise architectures, achieve certifications such as Cyber Essentials and ISO 27001, and apply AI to optimise operations like supply chains. Intelance positions itself as a partner for digital transformation, offering enterprise architects, cybersecurity specialists, and AI practitioners to support audit-readiness and technology-driven business value.
📋 Description
• Act as a named Principal Advisor on client engagements, bids, and governance forums. • Shape assurance strategy for clients across ISO 27001, IASME Cyber Assurance, NIST CSF, SOC 2 readiness, supplier assurance, and cyber risk governance. • Chair or sit on client steering committees, risk committees, and board-level security reviews. • Provide senior quality assurance over major deliverables: ISMS scopes, Statements of Applicability, risk assessments, audit responses, and board reports. • Coach Intelance delivery leads and associates. • Raise the ceiling of the practice. • Contribute to proposals and pursuits where senior credibility is required. • Represent Intelance at selected industry events, roundtables, and client briefings. • Input into Intelance service design, pricing, and positioning across the Cyber Assurance practice. • Where interest aligns, advise on adjacent areas: AI governance, enterprise architecture for security, and cyber value creation inside private equity portfolios.
🎯 Requirements
• 15 or more years in information security, cyber risk, or assurance, with significant time at CISO, partner, director, or head of practice level. • Proven track record leading or overseeing ISO 27001 certifications, complex assurance programmes, and regulated sector engagements. • Deep working knowledge of ISO 27001:2022, IASME Cyber Assurance, NIST CSF, and SOC 2. • You do not need all four at expert level, but three at fluent level is the minimum bar. • Credibility at board and executive committee level. • Comfortable challenging a CEO, CFO, or private equity sponsor. • Strong existing professional network in the UK cyber and risk community. • Visible and credible LinkedIn presence. This matters for this role. • Based in the UK with the right to work in the UK. • Able to operate outside IR35 via a limited company, or on a compliant basis. • Willing to be named publicly as a Principal Advisor of Intelance Digital Enablement, on our website, proposals, and LinkedIn, while on the panel. • Clean professional record. • References at executive level will be taken. • Desirable: Former CISO in a regulated sector: financial services, healthcare, legal, defence, critical national infrastructure. • Prior Big Four or top-tier boutique partner or director experience. • Experience inside or advising private equity portfolio companies. • Published thought leadership, keynote or conference track record. • CISSP, CISM, ISO 27001 Lead Auditor, or equivalent senior credentials.
🏖️ Benefits
• Senior day rate, negotiated individually, paid on 14-day terms. • Equity or revenue-share arrangements considered for the right individuals on a case-by-case basis. • Named inclusion on the Intelance website, proposal credentials, and selected marketing, with your consent on each instance. • Direct partnership with firm leadership. • Real influence over practice direction. • Referral fee on originated client work, negotiated individually given the seniority of this role. • A professional home for senior operators who want to keep shaping serious work without the drag of a Big Four diary. • Quarterly Principal Advisors forum to shape practice strategy.
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